Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- About your Mac model
- Whats new in macOS Tahoe
- Get to know the desktop
- Mac basics
- Apps
- Files and folders
- Personalize your Mac
- Get to know Siri
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Apple Intelligence
- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use Apple Intelligence with apps
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
- Beyond Mac basics
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Use Apple devices together
- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
- Apple Account and iCloud
- Screen Time
- Family Sharing
- Watch, play, and learn
- Use accessories and hardware
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Accessibility
- Get started
- General
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Vision
- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on whats around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize onscreen motion
- Increase the size of whats on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text thats on the screen
- Hearing
- Mobility
- Speech
- Privacy and security
- Restart, update, reset, and restore
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
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Create a Personal Voice on Mac
If youre at risk of losing your ability to speak, you can use Personal Voice on Mac to create a synthesized voice that sounds like you and speaks what you type using Live Speech. See Have what you type spoken out loud.
Note: Personal Voice is available only on Mac computers with Apple silicon, and is not available in all languages. Personal Voice can be used only with Live Speech and with third-party apps that you allow, such as Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps. You can use Personal Voice only to create a voice that sounds like you on device, using your own voice, and for your own personal, noncommercial use. See the Apple Support article Create a Personal Voice on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Create a Personal Voice
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
[]>System Settings, click Accessibility [] in the sidebar, go to Speech, then click Personal Voice. (You may need to scroll down.)Click Create a Personal Voice, then enter your login password.
Note: To create a Personal Voice on your Mac, you must have a login password set. See Change the login password.
Follow the onscreen instructions to record your voice. You can save and close your recording session at any time. To resume recording, click
[the Info button] next to the name of your Personal Voice, enter your login password, then click Continue Recording.
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You can have what you type spoken out loud using the Personal Voice you created.
To use the voice you created on all devices where youre signed in to your Apple Account, turn on Share across devices in Personal Voice settings.
Delete a Personal Voice
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
[]>System Settings, click Accessibility [] in the sidebar, go to Speech, then click Personal Voice. (You may need to scroll down.)Click
[the Info button] next to the name of a Personal Voice, click Delete Voice, then click Delete Voice And Recordings.
If you turned on Share across devices in Personal Voice settings, the voice is deleted from all devices where youre signed in to the same Apple Account.