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Description
Gnamù reader, send buffer contents to a speech engine
Latest
greader-0.19.5.0.20260627.0.tar (.sig), 2026-Aug-16, 320 KiB
Maintainer
Michelangelo Rodriguez <michelangelo.rodriguez@gmail.com>
Other versions:
release version
Website
https://gitlab.com/michelangelo-rodriguez/greader
ELPA's Repository
CGit or Gitweb
All Dependencies
seq (.tar)
compat (.tar)
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To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.

Full description

Usage:

In order to use greader, you have to install either espeak and/or
speech-dispatcher and, in case of speech-dispatcher, it has to work.

If external packages work properly, using greader is easy:
'M-x greader-mode <ret>'
In the mode line appears "greader".

Then you press 'C-r <spc>' and greader starts reading, moving the
cursor at the start of the sentence it is reading at the moment.

To stop reading, just press '<spc>'.

If you want to change the language in which the text is spoken, press
'C-r l', and when asked to new language, digit the language iso code.
If you want to cycle throwgh available back-ends, you have to press
'C-r b'. With a prefix arg, this command asks you to type a back-end
name.

Other features:
You can set a timer, enabling it with 'C-r t'.

With timer enabled, greader will read for time set in "greader-timer"
variable, which is customizable.

You can set a timer locally in the buffer you are reading with 'M-x greader-set-timer':
Timer is expressed in minutes.

There is a variant of the timer feature, called "greader-tired-mode",
in which, when timer expires, and you don't press a key for a
customizable amount of seconds, greader will position the pointer at
last position when you pressed 'C-r <spc>'.

To enable tired mode, you have to press 'C-r s'.

More features are coming!