The Right It Blog How to use Mac OS X Speech to proofread your documents

Mac Speech-to-TextHow to proofread using a MacHow many times have you written a document or drafted an email, read it through, thought it was ok, pressed the send button and then notice that you typed a word twice or made some other error that you missed? I recently did this to over 500 email recipients.Well, there is a way to get around this, especially if you use a Mac.You can use your Mac to proofread the text and read it back to you using the new high quality voices in OS X Lion & Yosemite. Using Apple's speech to text forces me to slow down and focus on what I am reading, which in turn allows me to understand more of what I am reading or correct mistakes that I otherwise would have missed.To use it, just highlight the text you are reading or editing (it doesn't matter whether its in an email, word document or a website), right click your mouse to bring up a context sensitive drop down window and select Speech > Start Speaking. Thats it.The text to speech function will read the text outloud.By default Mac OS X Lion uses the "Alex" voice and Yosemite uses "Karen". If you want to try another voice, go to the Apple icon (top left hand corner), choose System Preferences and click Dictation & Speech.applemacproofread