Text to Speech - cursor over to talk instead of selecting text?

I typically use TTS in Chrome and select the text, right click and select speech. I know there's a keyboard shortcut instead of right clicking, but is there a way to make TTS work like Narrator in WIndows 8? There, you put the cursor over the text and it automatically starts talking, which is less cumbersome.

It turns out that speech is not completely broken. I was able to fix this by recreating the disfunctional slides from scratch in the latest Keynote and OS X. Particularly affected were the slides that had complicated builds. It was an annoyance but got the job done.
At the link that I provided above are two links. You evidently downloaded the Self-Presenting Presentation (the first link) but did not download the Self-Presenting Keynote file (the second link). Once you do so you will be able to open the presentation in Keynote and dissect how the tags were applied.
I see no way to export that Keynote Presentation to Quicktime so that it includes the voice over. I was able to accomplish this by using SnapzPro. See http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/. This is also a must have application if you want to produce video podcast.
This morning I got the presentation that I was working on up to my .Mac site. You can view it at http://web.mac.com/igot2n0/McFatterTechnicalCenter/Orientation.html.
One other problem that I encountered is that this text to speech method does not allow slides that DO NOT have voice over narration but consist of builds. The intro slide and the last two slides of the presentation were exported to Quicktime separately and later added to the main presentation that I exported using SnapzPro. It seems that this is a feature that could be easily added in later revisions. If Apple does not include it in a later revision, I will keep doing it the way that I did in this presentation.
TC

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