Speech option in dropdown on MacBook Pro no longer reads articles/mails

mkorodan wrote:

The Speech option on the dropdown on my MacPro will no longer read article/mail. I used it often and a while ago it stopped working.

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Original Title: Speech option

hmmm.... never used the option in Mail, but I tested it just now and it worked in all instances...

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The current stable release of Sequoia including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 15.6.1

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No insight or resolve—

To trouble shoot further you can:

—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.

unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS