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Can kindle on mac read aloud update#

Press Ctrl+R (Windows) or Cmd+R (Mac) to begin narration.

Or when you have a resource open, you can simply click on the book cover icon to expose the menu options and then select Read Aloud. Start/Stop Reading Navigate to the passage you want to hear.

The above method doesn’t work for Logos Bible Software for desktop, but Logos has this feature built into it.

Select (i.e., highlight) the text you want to hear, and press your “key” (e.g., Option+Esc) to listen. If I were using this feature to listen to audiobooks, I’d set the speed to “Fast.” But for my purposes, I think that “Normal” (or slightly faster) is about right.ĥ. The default shortcut for activating Text to Speech is Option+Esc, which is what I’ve been using. Check the box for “Speak selected text when the key is pressed.”

Can kindle on mac read aloud update#

Update on : macOS Sierra does not have a “Dictation & Speech” icon. Open “System Preferences,” and select “Dictation & Speech.” (On listening to audio-Bibles, see here and here.) This is especially helpful when you want to listen to a variety of English translations while looking at a particular passage in Greek or Hebrew.ġ.

Listen to an English Bible translation that I don’t already own as an audio-Bible.Sometimes my ears hear errors that my eyes miss. This helps pace me, and it helps me spot typos. Listen to something I’m copy-editing (whether it’s something that I or someone else wrote).Listen to a relatively long blog post or email while doing something else that allows me to multitask.I have a student who tried it and it only allows him to read a small sample, and then quits. Did you know that your Mac can read text aloud? The feature is called “Text to Speech.” Brilliant Colleagues, Has anyone been able to get the Mac read-aloud software to work on a Kindle book.