Read out Aloud - Needs continuous reading from Cursor

[hafeesh]

Read Out Aloud is a good feature. so that i can listen to the long medical textbooks.
But the app gives option to read out only the selected text.

There is no option for continuous reading.
This option is present in other readers like FOXIT reader. Screen shot attached.

Please make this option available.
Thanks in advance.

[Sean - Tracker]

Hi Hafeesh,

You can enable the Select Text tool, then click CTRL+A to select all document text. Then you can right-click and select 'Read Selected Text Out Loud' - PDF-XChange Editor should then read back the entire document.

Best regards,

[VAGNER]

Eu também gostaria de que o início da leitura em voz alta do PDF pudesse ser iniciada a partir do ponto em que posicionado o cursor. Seria uma funcionalidade excelente!!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello VAGNER,

Welcome to our forums and thanks for adding your vote to this! If we gather a few more - I will pass it on to our devs for consideration!

Kind regards,
Stefan

[svb]

I also want to add my vote for "Read Out Loud" from cursor position functionality, ideally a right click menu option where I can right click anywhere on a page and select "Read Out Loud from here" from the right click menu.

The use case here is: students studying from PDFs text books, we often want a section repeated or to start at a specific position in the page.

Thanks

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, svb

Thank you for the added support, I have raised this topic with the team for consideration. Hopefully we can see some action on this front in the future.

Kind regards,

[vivid_rabbit]

This would be really helpful; currently I have to click "forward" a lot to skip reading text within figures when reading academic papers using the "Read to End of Document" mode.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello vivid_rabbit,

The above comments are discussing a feature different than what you seem to be doing.
Can we please have a few screenshots of your set up, and maybe a sample page with such a figure where you get that figure dead to you?

Kind regards,
Stefan

[vivid_rabbit]

The above comments are discussing a feature different than what you seem to be doing.

Sorry for posting in the wrong thread

Can we please have a few screenshots of your set up, and maybe a sample page with such a figure where you get that figure dead to you?

I think this gif illustrates what I encountered: https://i.imgur.com/wbPXtNg.gif
And the pdf link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.07825

In this case, the voice should jump to "Fig. 1. " when I do dedicated action while placing a cursor on that text (like, place cursor and click some button which continue reading from that cursor position)

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, vivid_rabbit

Thank you for the report, as powerful as such a function would be, implementation of this will unfortunately have to wait. This will be heavily dependent on the "visual content ordering" system which the dev team is working on. Without that functionality, offering the kind of skip feature you want will be nearly impossible. As such, it may still be some months, possibly over a year before we can start looking at an implementation of this particular function.

Kind regards,