You might not know this, but you don't need to go through the Preferences panel. You can use the `say` command from the command line, which uses the same engin

You might not know this, but you don't need to go through the Preferences panel. You can use the `say` command from the command line, which uses the same engine, but you can pipe text to it. For example, to dictate whatever's on the clipboard, pbpaste | say