Bug 487346

SUMMARY

Currently, Okular has the following options for text-to-speech as far as I'm aware:
- Tools → Speak Whole Document
- Tools → Speak Current Page
- Select a text block → Right-click context menu → "Speak Text"

I'm requesting the inclusion of an additional option to the Tools menu, which would be functionally identical to "Speak Whole Document" except that it begins speech from the current page, as opposed to page 1 of the document.

One use case for this feature is in resuming the reading of long texts. I have several books which are hundreds of pages long, which I normally read in multiple sessions. When I come back to a book, currently I need to either select Speak Current Page for each new page of the book, or I need to select the text from the beginning of where I'm starting some end point several pages later. Another use case is for skipping e.g. table of contents, copyright/publisher info, etc. which are sometimes located at the beginning of a book.