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NOTE Introduction

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Hi, I'm Yuval Langer.

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Some may know me as cow_2001 on IRC.

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I'd like to tell you about greader mode,

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a versatile text-to-speech package

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written by Michelangelo Rodriguez.

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Sometimes you want to read a bunch

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and cannot be bothered, right?

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You'd rather plop on your chair

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and let the words come to you.

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You can do it using greader Mode.

NOTE What is greader mode?

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What is greader mode?

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Greader mode is a text-to-speech minor mode

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with which you can read any buffer using the point.

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You move your point

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right before the text you want to read

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and run greader-read command.

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You can then use the left and right arrow keys

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to jump to the previous sentence or the next sentence.

NOTE Installing Greader

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Installing GReader:

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Greader is available on the GNU Emacs app store

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and its copyright assigned to

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the Free Software Foundation.

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To install Greader,

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you can run M-x list-packages RET.

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look it up with C-s greader,

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press i to mark it for installation,

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and then press x to execute the installation.

NOTE Basic usage

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Basic usage:

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We can now open a text file and start reading.

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Let's open The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

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I've never read the story,

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but HP Lovecraft said it was the best horror story

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he had ever read, so it is in my reading list.

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Now load greader using M-x greader-mode.

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To start reading, press C-r SPC.

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The Project Gutenberg ebook of The willows.

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This will run the greader-read command.

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To stop, press the SPC key.

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This will run the greader-stop command.

NOTE Navigation

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Navigation:

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You can navigate like you normally do,

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but using the left or right arrow keys

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will move the point between sentences

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instead of characters.

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So... This ebook is...

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You may copy it, give it away,

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or reuse it if you are not.

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Let's move to the start of the story.

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"After leaving Vienna,

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and long before you come to Budapest,

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the Danube enters a region

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of singular loneliness and desolation,

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where its waters spread away on all sides,

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regardless of a main channel,

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and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles,

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covered by a vast sea of low willow bushes."

NOTE Reading rate

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Reading rate: this reading rate is rather slow.

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Let's pick up the pace using the plus key.

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This will run the greader-inc-rate command.

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You must do that while greader is reading.

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Now it is too fast.

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We can slow down using the - key.

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This will run the greader-dec-rate command.

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"In high flood this great acreage

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of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands

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is almost topped by the water,

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but in normal seasons the bushes

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bend and rustle in the free winds,

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showing their silver leaves to the sunshine

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in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty."