diff --git a/lib/atom-dictation-view.coffee b/lib/atom-dictation-view.coffee
index 5d1be11..a614c23 100644
--- a/lib/atom-dictation-view.coffee
+++ b/lib/atom-dictation-view.coffee
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-recognition = {}
-speaking = false
-listening = false
-
 module.exports =
 class AtomDictationView
+  recognition = {}
+  speaking = false
+  listening = false
+
   constructor: (serializeState) ->
     # Create root element
     @element = document.createElement('div')
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class AtomDictationView
   destroy: ->
     @element.remove()
 
-  listen: ->
+  toggleListening: ->
     if not listening
       # Clear out the UI stuff
       @interimTranscriptElement.textContent = ""
@@ -86,22 +86,3 @@ class AtomDictationView
 
     @finalTranscriptElement.textContent += finalTranscript
     @interimTranscriptElement.textContent = interimTranscript
-
-# speak: ->
-#   console.log 'AtomDictationView is speaking!'
-#
-#   if not speaking
-#     console.log "Speaking to you!"
-#   else
-#     console.log "Done speaking to you!"
-#
-#   # Create message element
-#   message = document.createElement('div')
-#   message.textContent = "The AtomDictation package about to speak to you!"
-#   message.classList.add('message')
-#   @element.appendChild(message)
-#
-#   # if @element.parentElement?
-#   #   @element.remove()
-#   # else
-#   #   atom.workspaceView.append(@element)
diff --git a/lib/atom-dictation.coffee b/lib/atom-dictation.coffee
index f756193..3ef737b 100644
--- a/lib/atom-dictation.coffee
+++ b/lib/atom-dictation.coffee
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 AtomDictationView = require './atom-dictation-view'
+Speaker = require './speaker'
 {CompositeDisposable} = require 'atom'
 
 module.exports =
   atomDictationView: null
+  speaker: null
 
   activate: (state) ->
     @atomDictationView = new AtomDictationView(state.atomDictationViewState)
+    @speaker = new Speaker()
 
     # Events subscribed to in atom's system can be easily cleaned up with a CompositeDisposable
     @subscriptions = new CompositeDisposable
@@ -14,7 +17,7 @@ module.exports =
     @subscriptions.add atom.commands.add 'atom-workspace', 'atom-dictation:listen': => @toggleListening()
 
     # Register command that reads starting from the cursor
-    # @subscriptions.add atom.commands.add 'atom-workspace', 'atom-dictation:speak': => @toggleSpeaking()
+    @subscriptions.add atom.commands.add 'atom-workspace', 'atom-dictation:speak': => @toggleSpeaking()
 
   deactivate: ->
     @atomDictationView.destroy()
@@ -23,4 +26,8 @@ module.exports =
     atomDictationViewState: @atomDictationView.serialize()
 
   toggleListening: ->
+    @atomDictationView.toggleListening()
     @atomDictationView.listen()
+
+  toggleSpeaking: ->
+    @speaker.speak()
diff --git a/lib/speaker.coffee b/lib/speaker.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..779a579
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/speaker.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{CompositeDisposable} = require 'atom'
+
+module.exports =
+class Speaker
+  speaking = false
+  currentUtterance = null
+
+  constructor: (serializeState) ->
+
+  speak: ->
+    if not speaking
+      if editor = atom.workspace.getActiveTextEditor()
+        text = editor.getText()
+        currentUtterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(text)
+        currentUtterance.on('')
+        speechSynthesis.speak(currentUtterance);
+
+      console.log "Speaking to you!"
+
+    else
+      if message
+        message.cancel()
+      console.log "Done speaking to you!"
+
+    # Toggle the state
+    speaking = !speaking
+
+  speechFinished: ->
+    speaking = false