#Free text to speech for mac os 10.6 how to

To change theVoiceOver settings click on ‘Open VoiceOver Utility.’ or press ‘Tab’ until ‘Open VoiceOver Utility.’ button is highlighted and then press the ‘Spacebar’.You can turn VoiceOver on or off at any time by pressing ‘Apple’ + ‘F5’. Click on the ‘On’ radio button in the VoiceOver section shown in Fig 3 or press ‘Tab’ to highlight the radio buttons (on or off) and use the arrow keys to highlight the ‘On’ button.

Click on the ‘Seeing’ tab or press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F7’ to highlight one of the four tabs for example ‘Keyboard’ and then press the left or right arrow key to select the ‘Seeing’ tab.Click on the ‘Universal Access’ icon or press ‘Tab’ repeatedly (you might need to press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F7’ first) to cycle through the icons until the ‘Universal Access’ icon is selected as shown in Fig 2 and then press the ‘Spacebar’.Click on ‘System Preferences.’ as shown in Fig 1 or press the down arrow key to highlight it and then press ‘Enter’.Click on the ‘Apple’ menu or press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F2’.Make sure you are in ‘Finder’ press ‘Apple’ + ‘Tab’ if necessary to cycle through open applications until you return to ‘Finder ’.

#Free text to speech for mac os 10.6 how to

Instructions on how to activate VoiceOver are explained below.

Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard includes a thoroughly updated release of VoiceOver that builds on the advanced features in Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. Mac OS X version 10.4 also known as ‘Tiger’ is the first version of the Mac OS to include a fully integrated screen reader. Note: For keyboard access make sure ‘Full keyboard access’ is turned on you can turn it on or off by pressing ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F1’ at any time.

Note: Mac key convention: ‘Ctrl’ is used for ‘Control’, ‘Apple’ is used for ‘Command’ and ‘Alt’ is used for the ‘Option’ key.