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Awesome! I had been meaning to build something like this for a while now, but never got around to it.

Is it possible to annotate your text with extra 'stage directions' that influence how the book is read out?

> annotate your text with extra 'stage directions'

Good idea, not something I've considered yet. Wouldn't take much to add it since there's already a feature for selecting a quotation and assigning it an intonation. Same infrastructure could be reused to select arbitrary text and assign stage directions.

Nice! One suggestion: don't just make this apply to text, but also to a specific cursor position (you could say a zero-length text selection where start=end). That's natural if you eg want to say that between one sentence and the next, or one word and the next, you want to insert the sound of a train arriving or a sigh.

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