Vim espeak

A simple wrapper over the espeak text-to-speech system.
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 tw :call SpeakWord()
• nnoremap tc :call SpeakCurrentLine()
• nnoremap tp :call SpeakCurrentParagraph()
• nnoremap tf :call SpeakCurrentFile()
• vnoremap tv :call SpeakVisualSelection()

License

Same as Vim.

Enjoy!