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). 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. Using the Edit Audio dialog box, you can listen to an audio file, insert silence, adjust volume, and change numerous other options. To choose how the audio plays in your presentation, select an option: Play Across Slides Plays one audio file across all slides. This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard 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.
