Keyboard and media keys in Chrome

Media keys

The play key on your keyboard, your headphones’ controls and the Now Playing controls on a Mac all work with Readio:

• Play and pause. Play also starts the book when Readio is not reading yet.
• Stop ends the reading. Press play to start again from the page on screen.
• Skip back or forward 10 seconds.
• Previous goes back to the start of the current part. Next goes to the next part.

Now Playing shows the book’s title and author.

Readio makes the sound one part of the page at a time. A skip moves inside the part being spoken, so it can be shorter than 10 seconds. To go further, click a word on the page: Readio reads from it. See Read along in Chrome.

In the player

The buttons in the player take the keyboard like any button: Tab moves between them, and the player stays open while one of them has the focus. Keys you press there stay in the player, so an arrow key on the speed ruler does not turn the page.

• Esc closes the open popover or Settings.
• On the speed ruler: arrow keys change the speed by 0.05×, Page Up and Page Down by 0.25×. Home sets 0.5×, End sets 3×.
• In the voice list: arrow keys move through the faces, three to a row. Home and End go to the first and the last. Enter or Space picks the voice, S plays its sample.

With the mouse wheel

Turn the wheel over the Speed button to change the speed by 0.05× a notch. The speed popover does not have to be open.

Choose a voice and speed has the rest of the speed and voice controls.