Dictater Adds Useful Controls To OS X’s Speech Services

Dictater Adds Useful Controls To OS X’s Speech Services

Mac: OS X’s Speech services do a fine job of reading the text on your screen aloud, but they lack much in the way of control. Dictater is a free bit of software that adds all kinds of useful features.

Dictater adds a simple control panel to Speech services where you can easily pause audio, skip forward by sentences or paragraphs, replay sentences, and adds a teleprompter mode for reading along with the artificially spoken audio. Obviously not all of us need or use Speech services, but it’s super helpful for those that do, and Dictater is a far more powerful tool than OS X’s built in one.

Dictater (Free) [via Brett Terpestra]


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