How to make my Mac speak what I type?

here you go.

it is free. MacSpeak.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26720

Thanks I’ll try it…

I’m sorry, but I typed the wrong question…How can I make my Mac type what I speak! Oops =]

Got me there. I know there are programs for it. sorry.

It’s ok. I’ll try googling it…

Dragon NaturallySpeaking… but… it’s only for Windows. :-\

You running Parallels? or VMware?

Nope =[

If you’re willing to shell out some dough, a very excellent Mac version that uses Dragon’s engine is MacSpeech’s Dictate:

http://www.macspeech.com/product_info.php?products_id=592

I think it may be out of your price range though; I use for work extensively for generating email text and for word docs. Anything that doesn’t use the Dragon engine is sub-par IMO. (For example, MacSpeech’s prior product, iListen, didn’t use it, and you can definitely tell the difference).

Don’t know of any open source solutions though-sorry…I think this kind of tech is relegated to professional areas (court reporting, medical reporting, etc.).

Just ask it nicely dude, they’re usually pretty helpful.

I’ve been using this thing for a while. its pretty amusing making it say funny stuff. There are a ton of different voices you can use too.

http://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top

you can hit speak to open it in your browser or you can download it right to your desktop. works great.

@ice, you know you can just open up the terminal and use the say command for that one

as for the whole speech thing, it’s only 200 bucks right, if you really need it you’ll fork it over…

TextEdit + 10.4+ Speech = Best free makeshift

@unit: how does that support speech-to-text dictation? Just curious…

System Preferences—> Enable “Speak selected text when the key is pressed”—> Open TextEdit, write, highlight, press the keys you set

right…only I think swimmindude2496 changed his question above to go the opposite direction-where you speak into the mic and the app converts your speech into text.

In other words “Speech Recognition” or “Speech to Text.”

link

Google. It’s a great tool!