Keyboard Shortcut for "Speech" function in Mac OS v10.8.2 is not working.It work fine if I right click on the selected text and go to "Speech".

Use Alt and Esc together to start and stop speech for a block of text you have highlighted. trouble is its stops and starts again from the beginning, what would be really useful would be a pause command. If you find one of those let me know

The speech function differs from application to application - if it's supported.

I'm assuming that your screen shot is from Safari?

AFAIK, you just have to use the Start Speaking menu item... it's nothing that I use, so I don't know of a shortcut and there's not one in the menu selection.

Clinton

Reh... Doesn't work on my 2012 Mac mini. A function key set in Sys Prefs worked in Leopard and Lion on my MB but I cannot get any key to work using SysPref Dictation & Speech. It is befuddling and now I have to go to Edit-Speech to turn on and turn off speech to selected text.

I have used Macs and Apple 2es since cave man days and Apple is becoming so befuddling I am wondering if there is even an advantage to it over Windows XP. I spent a lot on this little box, it looks good (the first one had to be exchanged as it wouldn't link to my keyboard ???) but Apple intuitive does no longer seem meaningful.

If speech to text no longer is accessible by short cuts using Fkeys, why bother to have it in Syst Prefs?

Apple is losing its way. The pleasure is gone and no one at Apple seems to care.

I found that after changing the shortcut you have to click the "Play" button in Preferences and it will say "My name is Serena, ... british-english voice... etc"

After that the shortcut works in any app.

me,too,sometime shortcut work and it able to speak ,but sometime, it doesn't work. i use new imac with lion 10.8.2 system

Interesting, that works here too. Thanks a lot!

Yes that totally fixed it. Thank you so much!!