macOS has a very good built-in text-to-speech engine with real voices that sound good (i.e. not annoying to read). It's part of the Accessibility > Speech menu

macOS has a very good built-in text-to-speech engine with real voices that sound good (i.e. not annoying to read). It's part of the Accessibility > Speech menu in Settings. I wrote up a little info doc for how to enable keyboard shortcut for it so you can use with any text you can select: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem8qpMmnaBFYOgV32gdMc/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem... Use cases: - read blog posts and news articles while doing dishes (basically turn anything into an podcast at the press of a button) - read hacker news comments - proofreading text (you can hear the typos much easier than you can see them in a text you have written)