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Text to speech

My iMac's operating system is Mojave and the default command for text to speech is command plus M. This works fine when I highlight a page on Wikipedia.but when I try it on an eBook, nothing happens except for a pause followed by a low dong sound which I think means "** off I'm not going to read this". Sometimes it works OK with Microsoft Word Docs, sometimes it doesn't. The same with pdf documents. Any idea how I can I can get a more reliable response? At the moment it's so unreliable it's useless

Posted on Sep 30, 2019 6:26 AM

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VikingOSX

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Posted on Sep 30, 2019 9:38 AM

The ⌘-M shortcut is used in most Apple applications to minimize the current window. That is the case with Books and Preview in your case. The original default was option+esc because it did not conflict with existing application keyboard shortcuts.

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