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Have your emails read aloud in Mail on Mac
You can have your Mac read email messages aloud.
Go to the Mail app
on your Mac.
Click anywhere in a message.
To hear just part of a message, select the text you want to hear.
Choose Edit > Speech > Start Speaking.
To stop the speaking, choose Edit > Speech > Stop Speaking.