You’ll notice that each of the high quality voices are somewhat hefty downloads, so if you have limited disk space you may want to just pick one or two new voices rather than adding the entire lot of them all, which take up several GB of data. You can add all the voices if you want, though be mindful of storage capacity on the Mac when doing so. That’s all you need to do, just let the voices download and it will become a selectable option in that previously mentioned Voice menu.

Click “OK” and you will get a popup confirming that you want to add and download the new voice to Mac OS X, click on “Install” to proceed, for the purpose of this walkthrough with chose Tessa, the South African English voice.

Choose the voice or voices you want to add to Mac OS X by clicking the checkbox next to the name, you can play samples by selecting them and clicking “Play”.

Select the System Voice menu and scroll to “Customize” in the pull-down.

Click on “Dictation & Speech” under the System items, then click on “Text to Speech”.

Launch System Preferences from the  Apple menu.Here is how you add the great new voices to MacOS and Mac OS X: But guess what? Many of these incredible voices are not installed by default on a Mac! Thankfully that’s easy to change, and we’ll show you exactly how to add new voices to the Mac.Īdd High Quality New Text-to-Speech Voices to Mac OS X

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