Playback Controls

Aloud provides several ways to control audio playback, from starting and stopping to adjusting the speed.

Starting Playback

There are two primary ways to initiate text-to-speech:

• Play Selection: Highlight any text within a note, open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+P), and run the “Play selection” command. You can also right-click on selected text and choose “Aloud Text To Speech: Play selection” from the context menu.
• Play from Clipboard: Use the “Play from clipboard” command to read text that you have copied from any source.

A player UI will appear at the bottom of the screen when playback begins.

Player UI

The player UI provides the following controls:

• Play/Pause Button: Start or pause the current audio track.
• Next/Previous Sentence: Skip forward or backward by one sentence.
• Playback Speed: A dropdown menu to adjust the playback speed from 0.5x to 2.5x.

Commands for Playback Control

In addition to the visual player, you can use the following commands from the Command Palette for quick control:

• Play/pause: Toggles playback. If no audio is active, it will attempt to play the current selection.
• Stop: Halts playback completely and closes the player.
• Increase playback speed: Increases the playback rate by 0.1.
• Decrease playback speed: Decreases the playback rate by 0.1.

Visual Feedback

As audio plays, the plugin will automatically highlight the sentence currently being read, allowing you to follow along in your notes.