LuceVoce

Read text from any app

How to have LuceVoce read aloud the text you selected in another app, or the text on the clipboard, with a hotkey, the tray, the menu bar or the Share sheet.

Windows
Yes
Mac
Partly
iPad
Partly
iPhone
Partly
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Select text in any app, a web page, an email or a document, and press Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows or ⌃+⌥+R on a Mac. LuceVoce opens the text and starts reading it aloud, with the words lit up as usual.

Read the selected text

Windows

  1. Select the text in any app.
  2. Press Ctrl+Alt+R.

You can also right-click the LuceVoce icon in the notification area and choose Read selection.

LuceVoce copies the selection for you and puts back whatever was on the clipboard before.

Mac

  1. Select the text in any app.
  2. Press ⌃+⌥+R, or choose Read Selection from the LuceVoce icon in the menu bar.

The first time, macOS asks once whether LuceVoce may use Accessibility, which lets it read the text selected in other apps.

You can also use the Services menu, which needs no permission: in the app where you selected the text, choose the app's menu > Services > Read in LuceVoce.

iPhone and iPad

  1. Select text in any app, or open a web page.
  2. Tap Share and choose LuceVoce.

Selected text is read aloud at once. A web page is added to your library as an article. The first time, iOS asks whether to open LuceVoce.

Read the clipboard

Copy some text, then:

Windows

  • Right-click the LuceVoce icon in the notification area and choose Read clipboard.
  • Or right-click LuceVoce in the taskbar and choose Read clipboard in its jump list.

Mac

  • Choose Read Clipboard from the LuceVoce icon in the menu bar.
  • Or Control-click LuceVoce in the Dock and choose Read Clipboard.

iPhone and iPad

Press and hold LuceVoce's icon on the Home screen and choose Read Clipboard. Your device may ask you to allow the paste.

Keep the text in your library

To keep copied text as a document you can come back to, use the arrow beside Add > From the clipboard instead. See Save web articles and use the Reading List.

Change the hotkey

  1. Open Settings > Shortcuts.
  2. Click the box next to Read the selection in the active window.
  3. Press the new combination. Esc keeps the old one.

Good to know

  • The text opens as a temporary document and is read like a book, with the word highlight.
  • If another app already uses the hotkey, LuceVoce tells you once. Pick another combination in Settings > Shortcuts.

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Last updated 13 November 2026