Play, pause and move around a book
How to start and stop reading aloud in LuceVoce, go back or forward a sentence, skip a few seconds, jump between chapters and read from any word.
- Windows
- Yes
- Mac
- Yes
- iPad
- Yes
- iPhone
- Yes
Open a book and press Play in the bar at the bottom. LuceVoce reads aloud from where you left off and lights up each word as it is spoken.
Play and pause
Windows
Click Play in the bottom bar, or press Space. Click Pause or press Space again to stop. Pausing keeps your place, and playing goes on from the same sentence.
Mac
Click Play in the bottom bar, or press Space. Click Pause or press Space again to stop. Pausing keeps your place, and playing goes on from the same sentence.
iPhone and iPad
Tap Play in the bottom bar. Tap again to pause. Only the button plays or pauses, so a touch on the text never stops or starts the voice by mistake. Pausing keeps your place, and playing goes on from the same sentence.
The buttons respond however long your finger rests on them, so a quick press in a moving car still counts.
Go back or forward
The bottom bar has these buttons, from left to right around Play:
- Back 15 seconds: skip back. The button shows the number of seconds, 15 unless you changed it.
- Previous sentence (labelled Back in the touch layout).
- Next sentence (labelled Next in the touch layout).
- Forward 15 seconds: skip forward.
The progress bar shows where you are in the document.
Windows
- Left / Right: previous or next sentence.
- Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right: skip back or forward.
Mac
- Left / Right: previous or next sentence.
- ⌘+Left / ⌘+Right: skip back or forward.
iPhone and iPad
Use the buttons in the bottom bar.
Jump to another chapter
Windows
Press Page Up or Page Down for the previous or next chapter. To pick a chapter from the list, open Contents in the top bar (or press T).
Mac
Press Page Up or Page Down for the previous or next chapter. To pick a chapter from the list, open Contents in the top bar (or press T).
iPhone and iPad
Swipe left on the text for the next chapter, or right for the previous one. To pick a chapter from the list, tap Contents in the top bar.
Contents, the chapter bar on the right edge and the progress bar only move what you see. To have the voice read from there, choose Read from here. See Find your way around the reading view.
Read from a particular word
Windows
Double-click a word to read from its sentence. A single click opens a small menu with Read from here.
Mac
Double-click a word to read from its sentence. A single click opens a small menu with Read from here.
iPhone and iPad
Long press a word, tap More, then Read from here.
Change how far the skip buttons jump
- Open Settings > Voice.
- Under Playback, set Skip buttons jump to 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds.
Good to know
- When the book ends and you have books in the queue, the next one starts by itself. See Line up books to read next.
- Scrolling through the book never moves the voice. To go back to the sentence being read, use Back to the current position. To read from where you scrolled, choose a word as above.
- Resume where I left off, in Settings > Voice, opens each book at the place you stopped.
- Pause between sentences, in the same place, sets the silence between two sentences.
Last updated 13 November 2026