Guides
Speakybara is a free Windows app that turns any part of your screen into text you can copy or listen to: press a hotkey, drag a frame, done. These guides cover the handful of things that are worth reading once.
Each one is a real sequence of steps with the screens from the app next to them. Nothing here needs an account, and only the last two involve money.
Getting started
Install it, then make the hotkeys yours.
AI actions
Built-in actions like Explain and Summarize, your own actions, and the model that powers them.
- Connect your own AITwo ways in: paste an OpenAI key, or point Speakybara at a model you already run yourself on LM Studio, Ollama, llama.cpp or Unsloth/vLLM.
- Quick actions, and writing your ownFour actions are built in — Explain, Summarize, Translate and Improve writing — and you can write up to eight of your own, each just a name, an instruction and an icon.
Voices
Local voices that work offline, better pronunciation, and Google's best voices with your own key.
- Offline voices with PiperThe local voice is the one that works on a train, on a locked-down laptop and with nothing leaving your PC at all.
- Add your own English wordsDutch text at work is full of English terms. This is how you stop a local voice from mangling the ones it does not know.
- Set up your own Google Cloud API keyGoogle's best voices, on your own account, at Google's prices. Expect about 15 minutes of clicking around in a console you may never have opened before.
Managed
The paid option: Google's voices without a Google Cloud project.
Not in here?
The FAQ answers the short questions. For anything else, one person reads every message.