lightread

README

Light Read

###Light Read is a utility for Linux that will text-to-speech all selected text when Ctrl-z is pressed. It works with text to speech engines such as festival and Cepstral’s swift.

Usage

1. Select some text
2. Press Control-z

or press control-q to read the text in your clipboard

Installation:

pacaur -S light-read-git

Setup:

Light Read should be started when you login. This can be done in gnome with gnome-session-properties or adding the following line to the top of your .xinitrc file before

LightRead &

Dependencies

xsel
xclip
festival
at least one festival voice
aplay (already on most systems)