Siri voice won't read selected text in Books app

Hi there,

I chose the male Siri voice in the accessibility --> speech settings in macOS in order to listen to some of my ebooks in the Apple Books app.

Unfortunately when select text and press the dedicated keyboard shortcut for making it read the text aloud there's only a system error sound notification and nothing else.

This seems to happen in the Books app only as I've tested the same in PDF Expert and there the reading process works as expected.

Is there a way to fix this?

Cheers

Max

iMac Pro

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 7:09 AM

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