MAC Dictionary Speech

Built-in Dictionary

Mac OS X includes a powerful, systemwide Dictionary application containing the New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, Apple Dictionary, and access to the Internet-based encyclopedia called Wikipedia.

The New Oxford American Dictionary includes references for grammar, spelling, and pronunciation, and reference materials such as the chemical elements, weights and measures, and conversions.

Text to Speech

Mac OS X comes with more than 20 male, female, and novelty voices, including the extraordinary Alex, a voice so natural that he even breathes when speaking long passages.

Using Text to Speech (TTS), you can have Alex and other Mac voices speak selected text so you can hear a word as you see it onscreen.

You can adjust the speaking rate to slow things down, and speed them up to adapt to the listener’s abilities.

Apple TTS voices work with all applications that support the Mac OS X Speech engine, including Mail, Safari, iChat, TextEdit, and many more.

The voices included in Mac OS X Snow Leopard speak in English, but voices in additional languages are available separately.