Hi Sarah. That command that was said below is only to control rate of speech using Voiceover. Not sure if you can increase rate of speech outside of Voiceover but of course someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech and Voiceover speech rates Hi, Thank you for the response. I must be doing something wrong still as I still can not get it to work. I have the Text to Speech screen open when I do this but it does not seem to do anything. Am I making a stupid mistake or do I need to use only Voiceover if I want it to go faster? I really would prefer using the Text to Speech function if possible. Thanks, Sarah On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:05:56 AM UTC-5, Isaac Hebert wrote: You can speed up the speech rate by first pressing control option command left arrow to switch to the rate setting then use the up and arrow keys with the control option command keys held down to adjust the rate. On Mar 4, 2014, at 9:45 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: Hi, I am new to this group. I have a print disability, dyslexia, and I utilize text-to-speech to read. Recently, I have been turning the speech rate to the highest setting and I would like it to be even faster. I have found it not common for someone with dyslexia to request really high speech rates, but I have read people using voiceover may user faster speech rates. Does anyone know of a way to increase the text-to-speech rate without needing to use voiceover? I do not need a screen reader, but I do need text to be spoken. I didn't read much (just enough to get by) until I got a Mac with the text-to-speech built. I love this future, but just wish the speech rate would go faster as I have a lot of school work I need to read. Any suggestions? Thank you, Sarah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <javascript:> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
