Speech Styles

Speech Styles is an NVDA add-on that lets you customize how NVDA speaks different kinds of text and UI elements.

The idea is inspired by Emacspeak, bringing voice styling to NVDA so information can be distinguished by sound instead of extra words.

Features

• Customize roles and states (buttons, links, checked, selected, etc.).
• Style text inside quotes, parentheses, brackets, braces, and other delimiters.
• Style source code comments (//, #, /* */, <!-- -->, and more).
• Match custom text patterns or emojis using plain text or regular expressions.
• Change voice, pitch, rate, volume, inflection, or play sounds for any rule.

Rules can be enabled or disabled independently and work with NVDA configuration profiles.

Requirements

• NVDA 2025.1 or later.

Development

uv sync
uv run ruff check addon
uv run nvaddon build

Translating

Translations are welcome.

nvaddon locale-add <language code>

Then translate addon/locale/<language code>/LC_MESSAGES/nvda.po and open a pull request.

License

GPL v2. See COPYING.txt for details.