###Light Read is a utility for Linux that will text-to-speech all selected text when Ctrl-z is pressed. It works with text to speech engines such as festival and Cepstral’s swift.
- Select some text
- Press Control-z
or press control-q to read the text in your clipboard
pacaur -S light-read-git
Light Read should be started when you login. This can be done in gnome with gnome-session-properties or adding the following line to the top of your .xinitrc file before
LightRead &
xsel
xclip
festival
at least one festival voice
aplay (already on most systems)