Read text directly from other applications
Use GhostReader services to read text that is selected in another application. To do so, select the text, and then do one of the following:
- From the application menu, choose Services > Read Aloud with GhostReader.
- Control-click the selected text and choose Read Aloud with GhostReader from the shortcut menu that appears.
- Press Shift-Command-C.
A new GhostReader window will appear, containing the text that you have selected.
You can now just have GhostReader read the text aloud, or you can save it as a GhostReader document.
If you use OS X 10.10 or later, you can select text in almost any application and have it read by GhostReader. To be able to do this, you must turn on Selection Reader first:
Go to the Extensions pane of System Preferences and select the Selection Reader checkbox in the Actions group. This needs to be done only once.
After that, you can select text to be read aloud in virtually any application. Follow these steps:
- Select the portion of text you want to be read.
- Click the small button that appears in the end of the selected text.
- Choose Selection Reader from the pop-up menu that appears.
The selected text will be opened in a Selection Reader window and read aloud.
Tip: To create a new GhostReader document from the text in the Selection Reader window, click the GhostReader icon in the top-right corner of the window.