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). Previously, you were only able to send and receive. With iMessage, users could send text, picture messages and contacts over WiFi or 3G to other iOS 5 devices without using their carrier quota. Double-click on this album to open it and play your recording. OS X Yosemite comes with a really cool new feature that lets you send and receive SMS text message on your Mac. 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: Video Tutorial: Bigger Version (.mov, 5 MB).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.
