🌮 koki

koki is a native macOS menu bar app that reads selected text aloud from anywhere in macOS.

Features

• Menu bar app (no dock icon)
• Global hotkey for reading currently selected text
• Settings window with:
  • configurable 2-key shortcut recorder (1 modifier + 1 key)
  • voice selection
  • speech rate
• About section and menu item
• Check-for-updates menu item

Run

swift build
swift run

First Launch Notes

koki needs macOS Accessibility permission so it can trigger copy (⌘C) on selected text in other apps.

• Open Settings in koki
• Click Request Accessibility Permission
• Enable koki in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Accessibility

For voices, koki uses the system voices listed in macOS.