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Portrait Mode on FaceTime: Only M1 Macs on macOS Monterey will be able to blur the background of a video call using FaceTime.
#Siri text to speech mac update#
With the second major software update to take advantage of the Apple Silicon, here are the features Apple introduced that will be only available to its Macs with proprietary processors. As Apple is in the middle of the transition from Intel to its own silicon, the company is still supporting many Intel Macs. When Apple made the transition from PowerPC to Intel, the company was quick to drop support from older Macs.
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Even so, not all users will be able to take advantage of the new features, as several functions will only be available to the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max Mac models. I've also used SoundFlower in the past but not sure about the compatibility of whatever the latest incarnation of that is.MacOS Monterey was first unveiled during the WWDC21 keynote and after four months, it’s finally released today. I used to use LineIn, an older (free) product by the same company, but its discontinued and 32-bit so doesn't work on Catalina.
#Siri text to speech mac trial#
I made them using a trial version of loopback. There are different speeds too which you'll hear in the recordings. There are several Siri voices to choose from but I prefer the male/female US voices. I was able to make some sample recordings which I'll send you via DM. They are significantly better than the previous system voices which makes a difference for auditory learners like me. Overall I'd say I really like the new voices.
Alternatively if I go in terminal and do killall SpeechSynthesisServer the hotkey works correctly afterwards. Then the hotkey works correctly afterwards, always reading the correct text. Then I right-click something and do the "start speaking" action to read ~1 word in the wrong voice. If the hotkey-triggered Siri voice starts reading the wrong text, I stop the speaking by pressing the hotkey again (this is intentional feature). BUT I figured out easy fixes that work now. Most notably when I want to hear text from a webpage but it starts reading the URL instead of my highlighted text. However, my Command-Esc keyboard shortcut (configured in System Preferences / Accessibility / Speech) only sometimes reads the wrong text. The right-click > "Speech" > "Start Speaking" workflow still reads the correct text, every time, and (incorrectly) uses the Alex voice, every time. I'm currently running the latest build (10.15 beta 19A546d) and the issues I mentioned above have improved. This comes as part of a welcome batch of new additions to Accessibility features, but with TTS specifically I think Apple's attention to detail has missed the mark. To Apple's credit & my great appreciation, the new-as-of-iOS-13 Siri voices with "Neural TTS" are available on both platforms, including for use with Accessibility features. Despite macOS Mojave's Siri, iOS 12's Siri, and iOS 12's Accessibility allowing the new Siri voices to be used, macOS TTS didn't see them arrive until the Catalina PB. The "Siri" voices were listed in the iOS accessibility settings for TTS on iOS 12 but the "Speak Text" function never actually used them unless the "Speak Screen" functionality was used to speak text onscreen. But this feature hasn't exactly worked the best in the past either: That about sums up my current frustrations. The second method always speaks the correct text, but uses the wrong voice when a "Siri" voice is set. The first method usually reads something other than the selected text, but only when a "Siri" voice is selected in the accessibility settings. Or, I can select text, right-click and select "Speech > Start Speaking" and it will read it. Under System Preferences / Accessibility / Speech I can choose a voice and enable "Speak Selected Text" whenever I press a hotkey. There are 2 ways to have macOS read text.
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