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Hear documents read aloud in TextEdit on Mac
TextEdit can read all or part of your document out loud.
In the TextEdit app
on your Mac, choose Edit > Speech > Start Speaking.
To only hear part of your document, select the text you want to hear first.
Choose Edit > Speech > Stop Speaking to stop hearing the document read.