LuceVoce

Read with touch gestures

The touch layout and gestures in LuceVoce on touch screens, iPhone and iPad: the Play button, swiping between chapters, pinching the text, holding a word.

Windows
Yes
Mac
No
iPad
Yes
iPhone
Yes
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On a touch screen LuceVoce uses a touch layout with larger buttons, labels under them and a navigation bar at the bottom of the library. In the reading view, gestures move through the book and open what you need on a word.

Use the gestures

  • Tap the text (Windows touch screens): play or pause. On the iPhone and the iPad, tap Play in the bottom bar instead, so a touch on the text never stops or starts the voice by mistake.
  • Swipe left or right: next or previous chapter.
  • Press and hold a word: its definition; More gives everything else: Read from here, Translate, a note, a highlight or a bookmark.
  • Drag the selection handles: highlight, copy, translate or note the selection.
  • Tap a highlight: open its note.
  • Tap a footnote number: read the note without losing your place.
  • Pinch the text (iPhone and iPad): bigger or smaller text. In the PDF pages view, the pinch zooms the pages.
  • Tap the text with two fingers (iPhone and iPad, with voice commands on): give a voice command. See Control reading with your voice.
  • Swipe left or right with two fingers (iPhone and iPad): 30 seconds on or back.
  • Swipe down with two fingers (iPhone and iPad): back to the library.
  • Swipe up with two fingers (iPhone and iPad): Settings.

On a phone, the buttons respond however long your finger rests on them, so a quick press in a moving car still counts.

Choose the layout

Windows

  1. Open Settings, then Touch.
  2. Under Layout, choose one:
    • Automatic: touch layout when the keyboard is detached or the PC is in tablet posture.
    • Always touch: larger targets, labels under the buttons, bottom navigation.
    • Always mouse and keyboard: the compact layout.

Mac

Macs have no touch screen, so LuceVoce always uses the mouse and keyboard layout.

iPhone

iPhone always uses the touch layout. The gestures are listed in Settings, under Gestures.

iPad

iPad uses the touch layout. To use the compact layout with a keyboard and trackpad, open Settings, then Touch, and choose Always mouse and keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts keep working in either layout when a keyboard is connected.

Find your way in the touch layout

In the library, the bar at the bottom has Library, Reading, Notes, Browse, Search and Settings. Browse opens the views, categories, smart shelves and folders that sit in the side rail on a larger screen.

Good to know

  • A long press is a shortcut, never the only way: the same actions are in the panels and buttons too.
  • With a mouse, click a word for its menu and double-click a word to read from its sentence.

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.
  • Keyboard shortcuts and touch gesturesEvery keyboard shortcut in LuceVoce on Windows, Mac and iPad with a keyboard, plus the touch gestures for iPhone, iPad and touch screens.
  • Look up a wordHow to see a word's definition, pronunciation, examples and synonyms while you read, save it to your notes, and add dictionaries for other languages.
  • Differences between Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPadLuceVoce is the same app on every device. This page lists the few things that work differently on Windows, the Mac, the iPhone and the iPad.

Last updated 13 November 2026