Hello everyone!
I’d like to report a bug related to the system speech synthesizer on macOS. I can’t make it speak any faster, no matter what I try. For example, when I enable “announce the time” on my Mac, there’s no way to increase the speech rate. The same goes for watching a video with subtitles — I can’t make the speech playback any faster there either.
Now I’m wondering: does this issue fall under Accessibility, and should anything related to speech synthesis be reported to the Accessibility Team? Or is there another place where I should submit such feedback?
I’d really appreciate any advice.
Warm regards 😁
By Ines, 18 October, 2025
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macOS and Mac Apps
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Try the Feedback App
Try the feedback app or email accessibility@apple.com
Spoken Content
Just wondering - are you using VoiceOver? Is the rest of the speech the right speed and it's only a couple of places that aren't going fast enough?
You could try going to System Settings, then Accessibility, then Spoken Content and selecting Show Details where you can change the speed of Spoken Content. This is different to VoiceOver.
In the old days using VoiceOver to speak the time would use spoken content, but nowadays it does seem to use VoiceOver. But it is possible that you are somehow using the old method.
Anyway, this probably doesn't help but I thought I would try. But given neither is working then I would agree about feedback centre or the accessibility email address. It definitely sounds like an accessibility thing to me.