LuceVoce

Tables and footnotes

How LuceVoce shows tables as grids and reads them row by row, how to keep tables silent, and how footnote numbers are shown but not read aloud.

Windows
Yes
Mac
Partly
iPad
Partly
iPhone
Partly
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A table is shown as a proper grid and read row by row, the way a person would read it aloud. Footnote numbers stay on the page but are not read, so the sentence flows, and a tap on one shows its note.

How tables are read

The voice reads each row as one line: the first cell, then the others after a short pause. In a table with a header row and three columns or more, each figure is said after the name of its column, for example "Adyen: approval rate 61.9 percent, volume 12,000".

While a row is read, the highlight stays on the cell being said. You can click a word, select text, highlight, add notes and bookmarks in a table as anywhere else.

Keep tables silent

A report with large tables can be slow to listen to. To skip them:

  1. Open Settings > Voice.
  2. Under Playback, turn off Read tables aloud.

The tables stay on screen, and the voice skips them. The change applies the next time you open a document.

Read a footnote

Footnote numbers are shown as small raised marks beside the text, but the voice doesn't read them. A sentence with note 12 after "sea" is read "the sea was calm", not "the sea twelve was calm".

Windows

Click a footnote number, or tap it on a touch screen. A card shows the note, and the voice keeps reading. Press Esc, the close button, or click elsewhere to close it.

Mac

Click a footnote number. A card shows the note, and the voice keeps reading. Press Esc, the close button, or click elsewhere to close it.

iPhone and iPad

Tap a footnote number. A card shows the note, and the voice keeps reading. Tap the close button, or elsewhere, to close it.

Good to know

  • Footnote marks are found in EPUB books, web pages and saved articles, calibre HTMLZ and Kindle books. In FB2, RTF, ODT and DOC files they are still read as part of the text. Word (DOCX) files never had the numbers read.
  • A note the book places in the text, as some EPUB books do, is shown but not read. Notes gathered at the end of a chapter or the book are read where the book has them.
  • A cell that spans two columns counts as one cell.

Related

  • Find your way around the reading viewHow the reading view shows a book and follows the spoken word, how to read from any word, use the chapter bar, and change the font and text size.
  • Read PDFsHow LuceVoce tidies a PDF into readable text, and how to switch to the real PDF pages with the spoken word lit on them and zoom in.
  • Fix how a word is pronouncedHow to teach LuceVoce to say a word, a name or an abbreviation your way, try a rule at once, and what it already does to make text easier to listen to.
  • File formats LuceVoce can readEvery book, document and audiobook format LuceVoce opens, from EPUB, PDF and Kindle to Word, comics and MP3, and what it does with each one.

Last updated 13 November 2026