My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Listening to Text on a Web Page

The Internet can contain a vast amount of information, but all of it will be useless if you can't read it due to poor vision or eyestrain. Rather than force yourself to read a computer screen, you might choose to have your Macintosh read an article to you instead. Here's how to hear your Macintosh read text:

1. Click the Safari icon on the Dock or double-click it in the Applications folder. The Safari window appears.

2. Go to a web page and select the text you want your Macintosh to read.

3. Select Safari ▸ Services ▸ Speech ▸ Add to iTunes as Spoken Track.

After you have saved text as a spoken track, you can listen to it by doing this:

1. Load iTunes.

2. Click the Spoken Text playlist under the Playlists category.

3. Click the track (generically ...