Since some of the Accessibility features on Mac, such as Voice Over, Zoom, Voice Control, and Speech can also come in handy for those looking to get more out of their actions, and in turn, their device.

However, that is not to say that normal users cannot benefit from these features. Accessibility features, essentially, are features that aid people with disabilities to better use certain functionalities to allow them to operate their devices independently. Happy to help debug this further in any way (just let me know how to enable more logging options so we can see what 'terminal bell' means and why it is happening).In case you are unaware, Apple provides a range of Accessibility features on Mac - especially with the recent versions of macOS.

Broadly for accessibility: major-users who use and depend on text-to-speech tools on Mac OS cannot currently use vscode.

For me as a user specifically, not a big deal (I'll just atom for current text editing needs).

OBSERVED: a 'terminal bell' sound is heard and nothing happens (no error printed even when running in -log=debug mode)ĭoes this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes Select another paragraph and press the keyboard shortcut againĮXPECTED: computer to read the text again, like in step 2 a markdown file), select a paragraph and press the keyboard shortcut defined in step 1 (CMD+OPTION+CTRL+L in my case) and you will hear the computer read the text to you.

Open vscode on any project that contains text (e.g. On a Mac OS X computer, add a keyboard shortcut for the text-to-speech accesibility toolĬheck this doc for more info about using built-in mac text-to-speech.Default mac os dictation dictation tool (part of Accesibility) stops working after first use.

Shortcut to voice to text mac