Install
$ dsh plugin --profile desktop add "git+https://github.com/kevinx-key/dsh-plugin-read-aloud.git"Plugin Overview & Capabilities
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Key Capabilities
- Adds a read-aloud button to assistant message action bars
- Offers context menu and Alt+R shortcut for reading highlighted or selected text
- Uses Microsoft Edge natural online voices with automatic fallback to local Windows SAPI5 and Web Speech
- Provides sentence-level text highlighting with the CSS Custom Highlight API without modifying React DOM
- Supports playback controls including speed adjustments (0.5x to 2x), precise offset resume, and auto-scrolling
Useful For
- Listening to long DeepSeek assistant responses hands-free
- Reading selected excerpts or specific sentences from conversation history
- Reviewing generated text and code explanations through natural speech synthesis
Who It Fits
- Users who prefer auditory consumption of assistant responses
- Desktop DSH users requiring accessibility or hands-free reading assistance
- Multitasking developers and researchers listening to long-form model answers
Documented Limitations
- Edge natural voices require an active internet connection and send sentence text to Microsoft services
- Local fallback requires Windows and installed SAPI5 desktop voices
- Requires DSH Desktop 0.2.x environment supporting Chromium Web Audio and the CSS Custom Highlight API
- Runs a loopback HTTP service on localhost within the 18766-18777 port range
DSH Compatibility
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Security Signals
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package.json declares 0 runtime, 6 development, 0 peer, and 0 optional dependencies.
package.json declares DSH bundle metadata.
GitHub reports the repository license as MIT.
A root package.json was captured and can be inspected by the registry.
Public GitHub source metadata is available for this registry snapshot.
Source & Registry Notes
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- Source repository
- kevinx-key/dsh-plugin-read-aloud
- Registry source
- GitHub · dsh-plugin topic
- Registry classification
- Plugin
- Source checked
- c17bb49 · 2026-10-27
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Repository Activity
- GitHub stars
- 0GitHub stars
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit
- 2026-10-27
- Last release
- No release detected
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