Aloud - Let your note talk!

🎧 A powerful tool that makes your Obsidian "speak aloud" and truly frees your eyes: the Aloud TTS plugin.

As knowledge workers, we spend a significant amount of time reading and organizing notes in front of screens daily, leading to inevitable eye fatigue. If we could review and digest knowledge by listening during commutes, workouts, or even household chores, it would undoubtedly broaden the horizons of our learning. Aloud TTS was born precisely for this purpose; it's not just a text-to-speech tool, but rather an enhancement that grants your knowledge base a completely new auditory dimension.

💡 What Makes It Stand Out? 

Compared to most TTS plugins on the market, Aloud TTS truly embodies an exceptional design philosophy across multiple levels:

• 🎙️ Top-Tier AI Voice Matrix
  It doesn't rely on stiff, built-in system voices. Instead, it integrates a series of the industry's leading AI voice models, including familiar names like OpenAI (tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini), Google Gemini, and highly renowned platforms in speech synthesis such as ElevenLabs and Hume AI. This means you can enjoy a human-like, emotionally rich, and expressive listening experience.
• ✨ Immersive Audio-Visual Synchronization
  This is arguably one of its most impressive features. The plugin doesn't crudely convert the entire text before playback; instead, it utilizes streamed playback, beginning the reading almost instantly after you click play. Concurrently, it real-time highlights the sentence being read within your notes, achieving perfect synchronization between audio and visuals. This is highly beneficial for following along and maintaining focus.
• ⚙️ Flexible Playback & Cost Control
  It features an intelligent caching mechanism that saves generated audio segments locally or within your Vault, avoiding repeated requests for the same passages and effectively saving your API costs. Furthermore, it supports variable speed playback from 0.5x to 2.5x and deeply integrates with desktop and mobile system media controls, allowing for easy playback control even when the screen is locked.
• 📦 Seamless Workflow Integration
  Aloud TTS is deeply integrated into Obsidian's workflow. With a single click, you can export selected text as independent audio files and embed them directly into your notes, essentially transforming your knowledge cards into portable 'podcast' snippets. Even more conveniently, it supports direct reading of clipboard content, truly enabling learning on the go, anytime and anywhere, just by listening.

🚀 How to Start Listening? 

Its usage is extremely intuitive:
Simply select any piece of text within your notes, and then, via the right-click menu or a custom hotkey, choose "Play selection" to begin your auditory learning journey.

In summary, Aloud TTS, through its high-quality AI voices and sophisticated interactive design, offers a new, highly efficient sensory channel for Knowledge Management and learning. If you are also eager to interact with your knowledge base in multiple scenarios and dimensions, it is definitely worth a try.