Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) for Mac
Select text in any app and press one shortcut to hear it read aloud, with a natural online voice or Piper fully offline.
By ciro-maciel. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) at a glance
- Version
- 1.1.5
- Released
- 13 November 2026
- Download size
- 9.5 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Audio and Music
- Developer
- ciro-maciel
- GitHub stars
- 2
About Text to Speech (ciro-maciel)
Text to Speech by Ciro Cesar Maciel: select text in any Mac app, press one shortcut, hear it read aloud. A natural voice over the internet or Piper, fully offline.
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How to install Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.1.5 from ciro-maciel's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Text-to-Speech-1.1.5-macos.dmg (9.5 MB).
What is new in Text to Speech (ciro-maciel) 1.1.5
Install with one line: `curl -fsSL https://blob.ciromaciel.click/tools/text-to-speech/install.sh | bash`. Or download the .dmg and drag Text to Speech to Applications: signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+. Made by [Ciro Cesar Maciel](https://ciromaciel.click/?ref=oss-text-to-speech-release). [Follow @ciro-maciel](https://github.com/ciro-maciel) for the next open-source tools.
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