{"id":31,"date":"2015-02-20T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.cortland.edu\/wordpress\/academicapps\/?p=31"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:51:08","slug":"mac-osx-text-to-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2015\/02\/20\/mac-osx-text-to-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OSX Text-to-Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many don&#8217;t realize that OSX includes a very useful text-to-speech tool. This one minute video nicely demonstrates how to use it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Use Text to Speech Function in Mac\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhDTR9VQ1n4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a great tool to keep focus on reading a PDF when it&#8217;s hard to pay attention to the text. Or maybe you are writing a paper and need to hear your words read back to you while editing. There&#8217;s no need to seek out and purchase an app when this is built right into your operating system.<\/p>\n<p>This feature is limited in that one must repeatedly select text and hit the keyboard shortcuts to listen. Additionally, each word is not highlighted while being read aloud. But it&#8217;s a perfectly adequate text-to-speech function that many of my students have been satisfied with over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many don&#8217;t realize that OSX includes a very useful text-to-speech tool. This one minute video nicely demonstrates how to use it. This is a great tool to keep focus on reading a PDF when it&#8217;s hard to pay attention to the text. Or maybe you are writing a paper and need to hear your words &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2015\/02\/20\/mac-osx-text-to-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mac OSX Text-to-Speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,8,10,12,14,15,17,19],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeremy-zhe-heimerman","tag-aural","tag-dyslexia","tag-free","tag-mac","tag-osx","tag-reading","tag-text-to-speech","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}