A tiny OSX tool that reads aloud text copied to the clipboard, to workaround inconsistent system support when reading the selected text in apps.
- Status bar app (no dock icon)
- Reads aloud text when copied to the clipboard, using system-wide speech settings (accessible from the tool's preferences popup)
- Global shortcut for enabling/disabling the reading, configurable from the preferences popup
- Highly experimental spell checker—uses the Google Speech (unofficial) API to attempt to recognize the spoken original text
- Language support: English and French
For now the experimental spell checker requires the FLAC command-line utility to be installed beforehand. You can either:
- Use one of the OSX downloads on the official FLAC page (the 'FLAC tools for OS X' will do fine)
brew install flac, for those with Homebrew
This is a first-time project with all of Xcode, Cocoa and MacRuby, so there most likely are bad practices and/or blatant mistakes in the code.
- This is a MacRuby port and evolution of the original ReadAloud tool
- Global shortcut handling thanks to shpakovski/MASShortcut
- App & status bar icon derived from this one, designed by Laetitia W. Merijon from The Noun Project