Hold the mic button and say what you want to know. Press Listen and the answer is read to you. Both the listening and the speaking happen on your Mac, so the recording and the text stay where they started.
The same panel that answers in writing will speak the answer, at a speed you set.
Legal writing like this lease is hard going, especially if you have dyslexia.
Highlight the section, and press Option-Shift-E.
Hey Eduardo explains it in plain words, and spells out the hard ones.
Want just the key points? Click Simpler.
Then click Listen. It reads the explanation aloud, and highlights each word as it goes.
[Hey Eduardo reads the explanation aloud]
So why not paste it into ChatGPT or Claude? This lease has your name, your address, and your rent, and they would go to another company's servers.
Here, the explanation and the voice both run on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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Highlight something, open the panel and hold the microphone button. Your words become the question. Useful when the question is long, or when typing it out is the part that stops you asking.
The answer is spoken aloud while your eyes stay on the document. Handy for proofreading by ear, for long explanations, and for anyone who takes in more by listening than by reading.
One button rewrites the answer in plainer words. Pair it with Listen and a dense paragraph becomes something you can follow at your own pace.
Most dictation and read-aloud features stream audio or text to a company's servers to do the work. That is fine for a shopping list. It is a different question when the sentence you are dictating contains a client's name, or the paragraph being read aloud is their medical history.
Here the speech model and the voice both live on your Mac. The recording goes to a temporary file, is transcribed on your own machine, and is deleted as soon as the text comes back. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is kept.
It is also why this keeps working on a plane, in a locked-down office, or anywhere the network is not an option.
Dictation understands English. The speech model that ships today is an English one, so other languages will not transcribe well.
The voices are synthesized on your Mac, so they are plainer than the best cloud voices. The trade is that the text being read never leaves the machine.
Dictation needs microphone permission and a one-time model download from Settings → Speech. Reading answers aloud needs neither.
Hearing a paragraph after reading it is a well-worn strategy. Here the text never leaves your Mac, so it works on documents you are not allowed to paste anywhere.
Reading fatigue is real. Listening to the summary of a twelve-page contract takes less out of you than reading it twice.
Some questions come out better spoken than typed. Hold the mic, ramble, and let it sort out what you meant.
No. It is written to a temporary file, transcribed on your Mac, and deleted as soon as the text comes back.
English. You can type your question in other languages, but the speech model that ships today is an English one.
They are plainer, because they are synthesized on your Mac. In exchange, what is being read never goes anywhere.
Yes, in Settings → Speech. The speed setting in the demo is the one the app ships with.
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