Speak only the highlighted text in TextEdit

I would like a script that speaks only the highlighted text in TextEdit.
I found this script at MacScripter, written by kai. Can it be tweaked.
Thanks,
Tom
set text_buffer to 5 (* avoid attempts to speak just a few new characters: modify as required *)
set previous_count to 0
activate application "TextEdit"
-- repeat
tell application "TextEdit" to set current_text to document 1's text
set current_count to count current_text
if (current_count - previous_count) > text_buffer then (* some new text was added *)
set current_text to current_text's text (previous_count + 1) thru current_count
else (* we've reached the end of the document so far *)
delay 1.5 (* pause before restarting entire text *)
end if
set previous_count to current_count
say current_text
-- end repeat

There doesn't appear to be a selection item in TextEdit, so just highlighting some text isn't going to work. If you were to copy to the clipboard, then you could do something like:
say (the clipboard) as text

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