I had another Brilliant Idea.... as usual. Introduce a scrolling screen that can be recorded as it reads...

[Phuxxi]

I had another Brilliant Idea.... as usual. Introduce a scrolling screen that can be recorded as it reads...

This is so I can convert my documents into videos - where the text being read, remains more or less in the center of the Speech Note box, while it scrolls down through the text and reads it....

Also can you switch off the pop up nag screen telling you you have paused it..... It's annoying. An offswitch would be appreciated.

[Phuxxi]

Claudio Ai.

Me:

speech note, a text to speech program for linux, does not have an automatic scroll while it reads, is there a plug in, or how do I modify the code to introduce this function?

Machine:

The machine research:

5:52 amGood question. Let me find what Speech-Note actually is and what its codebase looks like before suggesting anything.Analyzed Speech Note architecture and weighed implementation options for auto-scroll featureAnalyzed Speech Note architecture and weighed implementation options for auto-scroll featureSpeech Note Linux text to speech application auto scroll reading highlight github10 resultsGitHub - mkiol/dsnote: Speech Note Linux app. Note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine translation.github.comReleases · mkiol/dsnotegithub.comSpeech Note download | SourceForge.netsourceforge.netGitHub - danielrosehill/speech-notes-with-text-fixes: Speech Note Linux app. Note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine translation.github.comInstall Speech Note on Linux | Flathubflathub.orgGitHub - cjpais/Handy: A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.github.comGitHub - gnat/text-to-speech-ubuntu: 🙊 Text to speech GUI / TTS on Ubuntu Linux 25.04 24.10 24.04 22.04 22.10 23.04 23.10 . Ideal for speed reading, programming, editing and writing.github.comSpeech Note: An Offline Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Translation App for Linux - OSTechNixostechnix.comSpeech Note: Text to Speech, Speech to Text App for Linuxwww.debugpoint.comGitHub - glutanimate/simple-google-tts: Use Google text-to-speech on your Linux desktopgithub.comThe user is asking about Speech Note (dsnote) - a Linux TTS app by mkiol on GitHub. They want auto-scroll functionality while it reads text. Let me check the GitHub repo for the UI code to understand how to add this feature.GitHub - mkiol/dsnote: Speech Note Linux app. Note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text,

The machine analysis:

Text to Speech and Machine translation.github.com

Now I have a good understanding of Speech Note (dsnote). It's written in C++ and QML, using Qt framework. The UI is QML-based. Auto-scroll during TTS reading is not a built-in feature.

Let me think about how to add auto-scroll. The app uses Qt/QML. The text display is likely a TextArea or similar QML component in the QML files under src/ or resources/.

For auto-scroll during TTS reading, the app would need to:

Track the current reading position (word/sentence being read)
Scroll the text view to keep that position visible

The app already has word-level timestamps from some models (CrisperWhisper mentions word-level timestamps).
So there might be position information available. Given the user's limited coding skills but strong visual understanding, I should recommend raising a GitHub feature request as the most practical path forward, while also outlining what a code solution would involve for anyone who might help implement it—essentially modifying the QML text display component to track and scroll to the current playback position.Show moreDoneGood news and honest news.

The honest news first:

Auto-scroll during TTS reading does not exist in Speech Note yet. It is not a hidden setting — it genuinely is not implemented. The app is written in C++ and QML (Qt framework), hosted on GitHub at github.com/mkiol/dsnote.

The good news:

The building blocks for it exist in the codebase already. Some Speech Note models — particularly CrisperWhisper — already generate word-level timestamps, meaning the app internally knows which word is being spoken at any given moment. The missing piece is just connecting that position information to a scroll command in the text display.

Three options in order of difficulty:

Option 1 — Raise a feature request (easiest, no coding):

Go to github.com/mkiol/dsnote/issues and open a new issue titled "Feature request: auto-scroll text to follow TTS reading position." Describe exactly what you want — the text view scrolls to keep the currently-spoken word visible during playback. The developer mkiol is active and responsive. This is a reasonable request and the infrastructure is already partly there.

Option 2 — External workaround:

Not really viable for this specific problem — auto-scroll requires hooking into the app's internal reading position, which an external script cannot easily access.

Option 3 — Code modification (requires some effort):

The UI files are QML — a readable, relatively approachable language that sits between markup and code. The text display component is almost certainly a TextArea in one of the .qml files under the resources/ directory in the source tree. The change would involve:

Finding where the TTS reading position signal is emitted in the C++ backend, connecting it to a QML slot, then calling positionToRectangle() on the TextArea and using ScrollView.contentY to scroll to that position.

The logic is maybe 15-20 lines of QML. The hard part is finding exactly which signal carries the current reading position and what format it uses.

My recommendation:

Raise the GitHub issue first. Describe it clearly, mention that CrisperWhisper already produces word-level timestamps so the data is available, and ask whether the developer would consider implementing it.

Given the app already has the timestamp data, this may be closer to the top of his list than you might expect.

The GitHub URL is: https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote/issues