How can I restart the text to speech feature?

Question

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?

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, Aug 24 '17 at 19:07
@IconDaemon that did it. The only problem now is that the keyboardshortcut is not working — relidon, Aug 24 '17 at 23:41
@IconDaemon Sorry, I have a shortcut set for text-to-speach (option + esc), not that does not work. — relidon, Aug 25 '17 at 01:50
Ah. This is set in the System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech sidebar. Is the checkbox checked in this setting? — IconDaemon, Aug 25 '17 at 15:56

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '18 at 21:03

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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?

answered Jun 18 '18 at 21:03

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I have to kill coreaudio every once in awhile and it takes down speech too. This fixes it. Thanks! – Sam May 06 '21 at 18:30

How can I restart the text to speech feature?

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