Sentence highlighting and navigation
How Speechdash splits documents into sentences and lets you jump by clicking.
Speechdash reads documents one sentence at a time and highlights the active sentence while audio plays. You can click any sentence to jump there instantly.
Introduction
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Sentence segmentation
When a document opens, Speechdash splits markdown into sentences with stable indexes. Segmentation respects:
- Paragraph breaks (double newlines)
- Punctuation and language-specific rules
- Code blocks (grouped separately for skip markers)
Editing the document re-segments text on save, which may shift indexes and invalidate cached Cloud audio for changed sections.
Highlight during playback
The currently spoken sentence gets a soft highlight in the reader. Playback advances automatically sentence by sentence until you pause or reach skipped content.
Click to jump
Click any visible sentence to move playback to that position. Useful for:
- Skipping ahead in long articles
- Re-hearing a confusing paragraph
- Jumping from the document outline
Timeline scrubbing
The playback bar slider moves across the full document timeline by sentence, not by arbitrary milliseconds.
Skipped content
Skipped sentences and code blocks are omitted from playback. Skip markers appear in the left gutter without shifting text.