

Close the system preferences window (Command-W) Then type in the shortcut sequence you want to use (generally some combination of control, option, command, or shift, and letter keys).Ĩ. (Be careful not to duplicate an existing shortcut that you use) VO-RIght arrow past the text description and VO-Space to activate a shortcut. Optionally assign a keyboard shortcut of your choosing. VO-Left arrow to the check box for "Add to iTunes as Spoken Track" and check it (VO-Space)ħ. (You can also VO-Right arrow to the service name, and then arrow down the list to explore the options, but the list of services is rather long)Ħ. Use item chooser menu (VO-I) to find "Add to iTunes as Spoken Track". On the Keyboard shortcuts tab, navigate (VO-Right arrow) past the "Shortcut Categories" table (which will already be correctly set to "Services") to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" table, and interactĥ. Arrow down to "Services Preferences…" and returnĤ. VO-Down Arrow, press "s" and return (to navigate to the "Services" menu)ģ. Control-F2 then VO-Right Arrow (to navigate to your application menu on the menubar, from any application)Ģ. The easy way to get there is to simply go to the "Services Preferences…" at the bottom of the Services sub-menu, which will take you to the correct tab and pane to select services. To check this item under your Service Preferences, you can navigate to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in System Preferences. When this is enabled, you can select text (say, in a TextEdit document), then move to the menu bar and arrow down to the "Services" menu option in your application (Control-F2 or VO-M to move to the menu bar, VO-Right arrow to the application, arrow down to the menu, press "s" to move to "Services"), then VO-Right arrow to the sub-menu and select "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track" in order to have your text turned into either an AAC or mp3 track (whichever your default import setting for itunes is set to) that shows up in your iTunes music library under the track name "Text to Speech". In order to have this show up in your "Services" menu options, you have to check this under your System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts tab entries. There are a few different ways to handle this, but one of the easiest ways is to use a Services menu option called "Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track". Matt was asking about making an audio file from a text selection. I went into system prefs and made sure the default speed was decently fast, but no matter what I do, its still slow. I notice that when I send a file to itunes as a spoken track, the voice is really slow.
