Use Dragon Dictate in Mac OS X Lion or Mountain Lion with virtually any Mac application. IGNITE CONVENIENCE USING YOUR FAVORITE MAC APPLICATIONSĭragon Dictate for Mac 3 goes beyond simple speech-to-text, and gives you control in more applications so that you can simply speak to do more than ever before. Review your work with Dragon Dictate’s Text-to-Speech feature, which reads back editable text for easy proofing or multi-tasking. Dragon Dictate can even adapt its format rules by detecting your format corrections – abbreviations, numbers, and more - so your dictated text looks the way you want it to every time. You can personalize Dragon Dictate with your own custom vocabulary of acronyms, proper names and other unique phrases that you frequently use. Dragon Dictate adapts to your voice and the words you use to deliver better recognition results over time. Correcting or revising your dictated text is simple with a new, more powerful correction interface that lets you quickly edit words or phrases. Say words and watch them appear on your computer screen - three times faster than typing - with up to 99% recognition accuracy right out of the box. To use the text to speech to hear your text without recording it, choose Edit, Speech, Start Speaking in TextEdit (choose Edit, Speech, Stop Speaking when you’re done).IGNITE PRODUCTIVITY WITH FAST, ACCURATE DICTATION Double-click on this album to open it and play your recording. iTunes will open in the background and your recording will show up in an album called Text to Speech.

Select the text for your recording in TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.

With Services selected on the left side of the pane, scroll down on the right side of the window and check the box next to the Text category.

This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard preferences.

Open TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Services Preferences.

To use Services to create a recording of a text file:

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Using the Services feature built into Mac OS X, you can use the text to speech built into TextEdit to create a recording of your text you can play in iTunes or on your iPod.

TextEdit, the text editor built into Mac OS X, includes a text to speech feature that will read back any text you type into the editor.

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