Listen with the window closed or the screen off

Windows

Close the LuceVoce window while it is reading and the voice goes on. LuceVoce moves to the notification area of the taskbar, and the first time it tells you that it keeps playing there.

Its icon in the notification area has a menu:

• Show LuceVoce: bring the window back. A click on the icon does the same.
• Play/Pause
• Read clipboard and Read selection: see Read text from any app.
• Settings: open the window at its settings.
• Exit: quit LuceVoce and stop reading.

While a book plays, the window title and the icon's tooltip show what is being read.

Mac

Close the LuceVoce window while it is reading and the voice goes on. Closing the window never quits LuceVoce on the Mac: click its icon in the Dock to bring the window back, and use Quit LuceVoce to quit.

LuceVoce also has a book icon in the menu bar, with this menu:

• Show LuceVoce
• Play or Pause
• Read Clipboard and Read Selection: see Read text from any app.
• Settings…
• Quit LuceVoce

The Dock icon's menu has Play/Pause and Read Clipboard too. While a book plays, the window shows what is being read under its title.

iPhone and iPad

Switch to another app or lock the screen, and LuceVoce keeps reading. Other apps' sound pauses while LuceVoce reads.

Press and hold LuceVoce's icon on the Home screen for the books you opened last and Read Clipboard.

Windows

• The play/pause, next and previous media keys on your keyboard control LuceVoce, even when another app is in front. So do the play and pause buttons of a headset.
• The media controls Windows shows, for example next to the volume, show the book and the chapter and have play, pause, next and previous.

Next and previous move by sentence. In an audiobook they move by chapter.

Mac

• The play/pause, next and previous keys on your keyboard control LuceVoce, even when another app is in front. So do the play and pause buttons of a headset.
• Now Playing in Control Centre shows the book and the chapter, with play, pause, next and previous.

Next and previous move by sentence. In an audiobook they move by chapter.

iPhone and iPad

• The lock screen and Now Playing in Control Centre show the book and the chapter.
• Use play and pause there to stop and start LuceVoce without unlocking.
• Your headphones, your watch and your car can pause, play and skip too.

Windows

Press Ctrl+Alt+P to play or pause from any app. You can change it in Settings > Shortcuts.

Mac

Press ⌃+⌥+P to play or pause from any app. You can change it in Settings > Shortcuts.

iPhone and iPad

iPhone and iPad have no keys that work in every app. Use the lock screen or Control Centre.