Your First Program in MacOS Automator - Instant Text To Speech

In this video we create your first Program in MacOS Automator. Mac Automator is a application built into all MacOS computers and allow you to create simple tasks quickly. In this video we show you how to quickly select text and create audio files from the test (text to speech).

0:14 - Introduction to Automator
2:01 - Create First Program in Automator
7:58 - Conclusion to Text to Speech Program

So if you want to select large amounts of text from websites, applications, documents, and more, then create this quick program in MacOS Automator. It only takes a few minutes and we show you step-by-step instructions on how to create your first Mac Automator program.

This works on all Macs. The Mac I used in my example was:

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[bryans]

Thanks for this slick trick I never knew about (always wondered what Automator was for...).

[artstudiointermix]

Thank you, Craig. This video was very helpful. Your information is awesome and your technique worked like a charm.

[jiyere]

Does it still work if you shortcut it? Thanks for the video

[alayoncarlos]

Hi Craig, I used to use an automator script to create audiobooks on my intel mac, the so called text to speech or text to audio file, now that I don't have my old mac and I have a macbook m1, I try to do it again but it doesn't work. do you know if there will be any solution? Thank you very much.

[Beauty.and.FashionPhotographer]

i upgraded to Keyoboard Maestro after i failed with the automator so many times...