Commands Reference

Aloud TTS can be controlled primarily through the Obsidian Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+P). Additionally, some common actions are available in the right-click context menu.

Command Palette

The following commands are available:

Command	Description
Play selection	Starts playback of the currently selected text.
Play from clipboard	Starts playback of the text currently in your system clipboard.
Play/pause	Toggles playback of the current audio. If nothing is playing, it will try to play the current selection.
Stop	Halts audio playback completely.
Increase playback speed	Increases the audio playback speed by 0.1x. Maximum speed is 2.5x.
Decrease playback speed	Decreases the audio playback speed by 0.1x. Minimum speed is 0.5x.

Right-Click Context Menu

When you right-click in the editor, the following commands are available under the “Aloud Text To Speech” submenu:

Command	Description
Play selection	Starts playback of the selected text.
Paste text to audio	Generates audio from the clipboard text and embeds it as an audio file in the note.
Export selection to audio	Generates an .mp3 audio file from the selected text and saves it to your vault.