I use the build-in macOS right-click > Speech option. I often use it to proofread things I'm writing and of course to read articles. I've made sure I have the enhanced quality voices in the Accessibility settings.
To expand on your last sentence, you need to open System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > click on the System Voice: drop down > click Customize... and then click "Download", otherwise all the voices are still that old school robot voice.
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I use the build-in macOS right-click > Speech option. I often use it to proofread things I'm writing and of course to read articles. I've made sure I have the enhanced quality voices in the Accessibility settings.
You can also use this from the command line with
To expand on your last sentence, you need to open System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > click on the System Voice: drop down > click Customize... and then click "Download", otherwise all the voices are still that old school robot voice.You can pipe to `say` as well