The Best Text-to-Speech Apps We’ve Tested for 2025

Every Apple computer comes with the Read & Speak feature, which uses high-quality voices to read text aloud. On a Mac, you can enable the feature by heading to System Settings > Accessibility > Read and Speak and checking the Speak Selection option. Then, you can trigger the tool using a keyboard shortcut (Option-Esc) for a document or any text you select. As the tool reads the text, it highlights the corresponding words on the page in most applications, allowing you to read along….