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  • "Selected text" is not the same as text in the clipboard. If the application reads selected text, you may be out of luck unless OSX provides a means of working on that buffer. Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 22:47
  • @goldilocks Please see my most recent edit. OS X does provide the means via automator. All i need the shell script to do is fetch the data in the clipboard, remove the hyphens, and print it out. The simple echo command I used (in the photo above) successfully spoke the text, "clipboard text here" Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 23:06
  • I see you removed your comment on my answer. If for whatever reason the newlines have been stripped and replaced with spaces your sed 's/- //' would work, otherwise you need the longer one to deal with them. Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 0:24
  • It seems the script works now, but not in all instances. Based on my tests, it seems the Speak Text feature doesn't like formatted text. Is there code I can add so that the text piped to Speak Now isn't formatted? BTW, I genuinely appreciate the help. Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 0:37
  • Probably, you would need to post an example of the raw text stream. I can have a look tomorrow. Btw, if you use @Graeme in your comment, I will get a notification for it. Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 2:01