Text to Speech | Superwhisper

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Nicolo S

Oct 31, 2023

Board: Features
Status: Pending

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Text to Speech

This may be a departure from the current top priority, but it would feel like a very natural next step to me to be able to highlight a paragraph, press the same shortcut and have what I wrote read out to me using something like ElevenLabs’ text to speech. I do this quite often after I have written something to proofread. Curious to get thoughts but feels along the same lines are speech to text.

Nicolo S

Oct 31, 2023

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Christopher DavisNov 10, 2023

Downvote, but this is based only on my personal needs and my personal experience that sufficient apps already address this need. Just my two cents.

Neil ChudleighNov 11, 2023

Christopher Davis: Thanks for the perspective.

BrandonAug 20, 2024

Christopher Davis - what apps?

Neil ChudleighNov 11, 2023

Hey Nicolo, yeah I think this is an interesting idea and something I would definitely consider if there was a good local option for it. The implications for people with disability or even just going hands-free as a productivity user are definitely valuable.

Varun Manoj KumarJun 12, 2025

This is Varun here . I have low vision, and I have been using AI-powered dictation systems for a while. I have found Super Whisper on the Mac to be a really game-changing application for me. Since I have low vision, I would definitely love to have the text-to-speech option included as part of Super Whisper so that I do not have to rely on the Mac OS's built-in text-to-speech options. For implementation, we can definitely use Apple's built-in text-to-speech engine and list of voices, as Apple's voice selection is already very pleasant to hear , and it also gives you a lot of options.

Wolfgang MaehrNov 27, 2023

MacOS has that possibility already built in. Just select the text, right-click and get it read. You should be able to assign it a shortcut.

BrandonAug 20, 2024

Wolfgang Maehr - the voices are not great certainly far short of what whisper can do.

Kevin KAug 29, 2025

Plus one for this. I've tried Apple's text-to-speech and Speechify (which has great browser integration), but both leave me wanting. Voices just aren't great and Eleven blows them out of the water, but no easy way for someone like me to use without copying and pasting into the web app. Obviously reading highlighted text would be nice, but if it could use the Super smarts to know what to read (and be able to read down a scrolling window) in any app, that would be incredible.