ROAR v0.30.0 — Point & Speak, now working everywhere

Point & Speak: highlight anything, Ctrl + Right-click, hear it.

Select text in any app — your browser, a PDF, an editor, chat — and Ctrl + Right-click to have ROAR read it aloud on the spot. One gesture, no menu. The same gesture stops it. Everything stays on your machine.

Turn it on in Settings → Read Aloud → Point & Speak.

What changed since v0.26

The gesture shipped in v0.26 but often did nothing in browsers. Three separate causes, all fixed:

• The context menu was stealing the copy. The gesture click is now consumed by ROAR, so no menu opens to take focus mid-capture. Plain right-click is untouched everywhere.
• The gesture's own Ctrl key broke the copy. ROAR now waits for you to let go before copying, instead of sending a malformed Ctrl+C.
• The voice wasn't ready. With the gesture enabled, the voice now loads in the background at startup. Existing installs were hit hardest — their settings still carried preload: false from an older version, so the first gesture waited on a cold load and silently gave up.

Also: real accessibility access for Chromium apps (Chrome, Edge, Opera) that expose text only when asked; the clipboard is preserved in full — including images and copied files; and failures now say what actually happened instead of "this window isn't usable".

Verified end to end against a real Opera selection.

Install

Run the setup and follow the prompts. Your settings, history, licence and vocabulary carry over.

Requires: Windows 10/11 · Full detail: CHANGELOG.md