If you don’t want spoken content highlighted, choose Never from the Highlight content pop-up menu. Click the “Word colour” and “Sentence colour” pop-up menus to choose the highlight colour. Highlight content: Click the pop-up menu, then choose to have words, sentences or both highlighted as your Mac speaks. For example, press the Option and Tab keys together to set the keyboard shortcut as Option+Tab. Keyboard shortcut: Press the key combination you want to use. To set a different keyboard shortcut and change other settings, click Options: On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Accessibility, then click Spoken Content.īy default, your Mac speaks text when you press the keyboard shortcut Option-Esc.