Sonarpad is a modern, feature-rich Notepad alternative for Windows, built with Rust. It extends traditional text editing with multi-format document support, advanced accessibility features, and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. It also includes an integrated MP3 audiobook player, a bookmark system for both text and audio, and the ability to create audiobooks directly from text using Microsoft voices (Edge Neural) and SAPI5, plus podcast recording from microphone and system audio.

Features:

• Native Windows UI, built directly on the Windows API for high performance and strong accessibility.
• Multi-format support, including plain text files, PDF text extraction, Microsoft Word DOCX documents, spreadsheets such as Excel and ODS via calamine, and EPUB e-books.
• Text-to-Speech and audiobook creation using Microsoft voices (Edge Neural) and SAPI5 including OneCore, with document reading, MP3 audiobook generation, smart splitting by fixed parts or marker text, introduction handling, voice favorites, and dictionary-based word replacements.
• MP3 audiobook player with keyboard-based playback, seeking, play and pause control, and volume adjustment.
• Bookmarks system for creating, managing, and jumping to saved positions in both text documents and MP3 audiobooks.
• Podcast recording from microphone and or system audio using shortcut-based controls.
• Accessibility-focused design with reliable support for screen readers such as NVDA and JAWS.
• Accessible terminal with a dedicated screen-reader-friendly output window, useful keyboard shortcuts, and configurable options including auto-scroll, ANSI stripping, idle alerts, sleep prevention, and selectable command environments.
• RSS and articles reader for browsing and importing content from RSS feeds.
• Readable UI options with text color and size controls, including light and dark themes and larger font sizes.
• Editing tools such as Find in Files, Strip Markdown Tags, Normalize Whitespace, and Hard Line Break.
• Voice tuning options to control pitch, speed, and volume for Microsoft and SAPI5 voices, applied to reading and audiobook creation.
• Modern tech stack written in Rust for safety, performance, and long-term reliability.
• YouTube transcript import with language selection and optional timestamps.
• Localization support for English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

License Notice:

This project is source-available but NOT open source. Commercial use, redistribution, and derivative works are strictly prohibited.