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Vim espeak

A simple wrapper over the espeak text-to-speech system.<br> Espeak sounds robotic, for a more natural sounding tts, use vim-piper

Introduction

Vim espeak is a Vim plugin that integrates the espeak text-to-speech system into Vim. It allows you to easily convert text within Vim to speech using espeak.

Dependency

This plugin depends on the following:

• espeak
• Vim or Neovim

Getting espeak

pacman -S espeak espeak-ng
apt install espeak espeak-ng
etc ...

Installation

Using vim-plug

Add the following to your ~/.vimrc or ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:

Plug 'wolandark/vim-espeak'

Then run :PlugInstall in Vim.

Configuration

You can configure the following variable in your ~/.vimrc.

let g:espeak = 'espeak command to use'

default is:

let g:espeak = 'espeak -v en'

Functions

The plugin provides the following functions:

• PassVisualSelection(): Utility function to get the visual selection.
• SpeakWord(): Speak the word under the cursor.
• SpeakCurrentLine(): Speak the current line.
• SpeakCurrentParagraph(): Speak the current paragraph.
• SpeakVisualSelection(): Speak the visual selection.
• SpeakCurrentFile(): Speak the current file.

Mappings

The following mappings are defined by default:

• nnoremap <Leader>tw :call SpeakWord()<CR>
• nnoremap <Leader>tc :call SpeakCurrentLine()<CR>
• nnoremap <Leader>tp :call SpeakCurrentParagraph()<CR>
• nnoremap <Leader>tf :call SpeakCurrentFile()<CR>
• vnoremap <Leader>tv :call SpeakVisualSelection()<CR>

License

Same as Vim.

Enjoy!