The main Emacsvox keymap, including reading, status, and navigation commands.
The text-to-speech keymap, including direct rate, punctuation, and echo controls.
Open the general settings menu. Its displayed keys and contextual Help provide discoverable routes to speech, voices, sounds, rules, and diagnostics.
Open focused settings for the captured integration when available, otherwise general buffer settings. C-e H . always opens general buffer settings.
A prefix such as C-e waits for another key; C-e H is a complete command that opens a settings menu. Release Control-e before typing capital H. Once the menu is open, its own displayed letters choose actions. They are not additional keys to hold with Control.
Inside an Emacsvox settings menu, arrows browse and RET activates a choice. ? followed by an item’s key explains it; q goes back and C-q closes the sequence. Shift-left/right adjusts a selected numeric control where offered. To inspect the selected item, use C-c l to repeat it, M-f~/~M-b for words or C-f~/~C-b for characters. In this menu context C-a~/~C-e reaches the start/end of item review, so C-e is not the speech prefix. Menu-specific bindings take precedence; menu review explains the full set and its limits.
A voice editor, terminal, table reader or another Transient application retains its own keys. The same letter can mean Save in an editor, Export in a palette manager or ordinary input in a terminal. Check which view has focus before applying a command from another view’s instructions.
Integration-specific and convenience maps depend on major/minor modes, window system or terminal, and personal configuration. Live Help resolves those contexts. The manual uses the default speech prefix; a customised prefix changes its entry sequences without changing a menu’s own displayed shortcuts.
Set emacsvox-prefix before loading Emacsvox. For example:
(setq emacsvox-prefix (kbd "C-c e"))
Then C-c e l reads the line and C-c e e provides end-of-line recovery. Evil, EXWM, widgets, and Term use the prefix followed by e for their corresponding recovery command when it contains multiple events. Repeating such a prefix is also bound if unused or already assigned to that recovery. Existing commands and submaps take precedence: C-c e C-c retains selective display, so C-c e C-c e is not installed as recovery.
Single-event prefixes keep their repeated-key behaviour, including default C-e C-e. Mode-local bindings can still shadow the prefix; inspect them before assuming a key is unavailable or broken.
C-h m describes the current modes and their commands. C-h b lists effective bindings, and C-h k followed by a key identifies its command. After typing a prefix such as C-e, C-h shows that prefix’s current bindings.
When live Help differs from this manual, check personal configuration and installed package versions, then compare the generated defaults. For speech feedback problems rather than binding discovery, see Troubleshooting And Recovery.