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Old 01-18-2024, 02:08 PM   #1
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Keyboard shortcut for "Read aloud" for blind people
Thank you for your software.

I installed Calibre 6.13 on Debian 12.

It works, but wanting to use it for blind people with ebook-speaker, and I looked at the documentation to customize the shortcuts but I couldn't find the shortcuts "Read aloud" in order to put a shortcut on it.


I would like to know if it is possible to make keyboard shortcut for "Read aloud" ?

Thank you in advance for your advice.
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Old 01-18-2024, 03:23 PM   #2
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See ==>> Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->Read Aloud in the Interface section.

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Old 01-18-2024, 08:21 PM   #3
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I've no idea how well read-aloud works on Debian 12, but it was pretty bad on my Ubuntu box until I discovered a fix: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=357313

If your voices are limited and sound bad, give it a try.
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I've no idea how well read-aloud works on Debian 12, but it was pretty bad on my Ubuntu box until I discovered a fix: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=357313

If your voices are limited and sound bad, give it a try.

Thank you very much Retiredbiker for your advice.

It's Piper which is a very good utility https://github.com/rhasspy/piper and the sound test audios are here https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

On the other hand, to install this, it is not necessary to use "Pied" which is very cumbersome to implement, there is this script that I am currently testing https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/285
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See ==>> Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->Read Aloud in the Interface section.

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BetterRed, I don't see the shortcut you indicate, see the screenshot below:
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[QUOTE=pat-emmabuntus;4390645]BetterRed, I don't see the shortcut you indicate, see the screenshot below:


BetterRed, sorry, I found this in the local preferences window at the viewer and it's CRTL+s.
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It's in the Viewer's Preferences:

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The Book Viewer and Editor are discrete programs that can be run independently of the Library manager; so, they have their separate Preferences settings.

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Thank you BetterRed for your advice and it works well.
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