Fact · Dictation on Mac
Apple built VoiceOver into Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which Macworld reported in April 2005 as a feature that starts with Command-F5.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Because VoiceOver is built into Tiger, Apple believes its spoken-word application has an advantage over third-party screen readers”
Giving OS X a voice, Macworld, 2005, Article body, paragraph on VoiceOver.
Open the original- What it measures
- Tiger was released in 2005. The article reports that VoiceOver works with OS X 10.4 as soon as users press Command-F5, and that it reads onscreen text with the system voices.
- What it does not show
- This is a 2005 news report of Apple's claims at launch, not a current Apple page. Modern macOS versions have changed the feature.