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After selecting a portion of text to be read aloud, spoken content reads the whole selected text, but does not highlight each spoken word. Changing the highlight color did not work :(. Thanks for any help!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.2
This Accessibility feature works correctly in macOS 11.6.4 and 12.2.1 when I select your text above in Safari 15.3 and press option+ESC. Each word receives a yellow highlight as it is spoken, just as expected.
This feature may not work in third-party applications where the keyboard shortcut is used for another purpose, or there are no speech controls.
Tested: 2020 M1 mini w/11.6.4, and 2021 MBP M1 Pro 16-inch w/12.2.1.
This Accessibility feature works correctly in macOS 11.6.4 and 12.2.1 when I select your text above in Safari 15.3 and press option+ESC. Each word receives a yellow highlight as it is spoken, just as expected.
This feature may not work in third-party applications where the keyboard shortcut is used for another purpose, or there are no speech controls.
Tested: 2020 M1 mini w/11.6.4, and 2021 MBP M1 Pro 16-inch w/12.2.1.
Thanks, VikingOSX.
I'm using Spoken content specifically for reading PDFs. Whether you open a PDF in Safari or Preview, it's not going to work. Highlighting only works for embedded text in webpages, as you mentioned.
Is there any fix to this issue? thanks
I see no fix for highlighted Spoken Content functionality when a PDF is opened in Preview or directly opened (not loaded from a website) in Safari. Thinking it might have something to do with Apple's PDFContext, I opened a PDF in Word v16.58, converted it to Word docx, and saved it as a PDF. This also failed to permit highlighted Spoken Content in Safari or Preview.
All you can do at this point is send direct feedback to the macOS Product team.
Thank you, Viking OSx. I’ll get in touch with the product team and update this thread with any results I get.
highlighting each word as they are spoken does not work
