Guide
How to read Craft documents aloud on Mac
Craft doesn't ship a read-aloud button, but your Mac can read any Craft page. Here's the free way, what Siri can and can't do, and a better reader.
Updated 14 November 2026.
Short answerTurn on Speak selection, open the Craft page, select the text and press Option-Esc. Craft's help docs don't list a read-aloud feature, and Siri's Craft support answers questions rather than reading pages. Aloud reads a selection in Craft, or any other app, with Control-Option-S, with a word highlight, speeds up to 2x and .m4a export.
The free built-in fix
- Turn on Speak selection. System Settings → Accessibility → Read & Speak (called Spoken Content on macOS 14 and 15) → Speak selection.
- Open the sub-pages you need. Sub-pages open as their own pages, so their text isn't selected from the parent. Open the page you want to hear first.
- Select and speak. Click into the text, press Command-A to select the blocks you want, and press Option-Esc.
- Fallback. If Option-Esc does nothing, copy into TextEdit and use Edit → Speech → Start Speaking.
What about Siri?
Craft's Siri help page says that on macOS 27, with Apple's updated Siri (still a beta on Mac), you can ask Siri to find a Craft document and answer questions from its content. It isn't a page reader: only your 50 most recently edited documents share their content, only the first level of each document is included (sub-pages aren't), and formatting is dropped. That's useful for "what's on my packing list?", not for listening to a long draft or a meeting doc start to finish.
The better fix: Aloud
If you want one reader for Craft and everything else on your Mac, Aloud (ours, $19 once per Mac, macOS 14 or later) is made for this:
- Select text in Craft, or any app, and press Control-Option-S (or right-click → Services → Read with Aloud).
- A reading window with a word highlight and click-to-seek, so you can jump to any sentence.
- Speed from 0.75x to 2x, changed mid-sentence, and resume from the last sentence.
- Natural voices: Apple Premium voices, Kokoro on device, or your own ElevenLabs (v4, v4 Turbo or v3) key.
- Also reads PDFs, screenshots and web pages in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Vivaldi and other Chromium browsers.
- .m4a export to listen to long documents away from your desk.
Buy Aloud, $19 once No subscription, no account.
Questions
Does Craft have text to speech built in?
Craft's help docs don't list a read-aloud feature. Use macOS Speak Selection or Edit → Speech, or an app such as Aloud.
Can Siri read a Craft document out loud?
Not the whole page. On macOS 27 with Apple's updated Siri (a beta on Mac), Siri can find a Craft document and answer questions from it, but only for your 50 most recently edited documents and only their first level, per Craft's Siri help page. To hear a full document, select it and use Speak Selection or Aloud.
Can I listen to a Craft document as audio later?
Aloud exports any reading to .m4a, so you can play a long document on a walk or in the car.
Is Aloud free?
No, it's $19 once per Mac, no subscription, no account.
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