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I use the text to speech feature a lot. Sometimes, after I put the macbook to sleep and come back to it the feature no longer works. I would have to shutdown/restart the computer in order for the feature to work. Is there are a way to restart/enable text to speech without restarting the computer?

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  • Try running Activity Monitor, search for the Process Name coreaudiod, and force quit it by clicking the X icon and selecting Force Quit. Speech Synthesis uses the coreaudioddaemon process for its audio output:
    – IconDaemon
    Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 19:07
  • @IconDaemon that did it. The only problem now is that the keyboardshortcut is not working
    – relidon
    Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 23:41
  • Which keyboard shortcut? Be specific.
    – IconDaemon
    Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 23:53
  • @IconDaemon Sorry, I have a shortcut set for text-to-speach (option + esc), not that does not work.
    – relidon
    Commented Aug 25, 2017 at 1:50
  • Ah. This is set in the System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech sidebar. Is the checkbox checked in this setting?
    – IconDaemon
    Commented Aug 25, 2017 at 15:56

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Reset to default
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have you tried entering these two commands in terminal? 

killall com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd
killall SpeechSynthesisServer

You can do that in activity monitor, I just like terminal better. Then wait a bit and try the shortcut again. If that doesn't work, try to change your shortcut to something else and then change it back. Also, maybe corrupted plist file?

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  • I have to kill coreaudio every once in awhile and it takes down speech too. This fixes it. Thanks!
    – Sam
    Commented May 6, 2021 at 18:30

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