2nd Speech Center 4.15.10.1202 - Changelog

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 4.10.10.1031:

December 2nd, 2010

New Features/Improvements:
Menu redesigned:
· Now the "Voices" menu is an independent top menu.
· The "Insert Control Tags" menu moved from the "Speech" menu to the "Tools" menu.
· New "Speed Up/Down/Max/Min" menu items with hotkeys added to the "Tools" menu.
· The "Voices" and "Speed Up/Down/Max/Min" menu items added to the tray popup menu.

Voices toolbar redesigned:
· Display percent of volume, speed and pitch.
· Fine tuning volume, speed and pitch by arrow keys.
· Hide pitch slider for SAPI5 voices.

Watch Clipboard:
· The "Ignore Clipboard text start with" option added.
· The "Ignore Clipboard text contain" option added.
· Now the "Read Now" command will forcedly stop current speaking first.
· Dozens of preset pronunciation corrections added.
· SAPI5 XML control tags turn on/off option added.
· SAPI4 control tags turn on/off option added.
· Single Instance mode now works perfectly.
· The "Hide to tray at startup" option added.
· Speed up/down step option added.

Bugs Fixed:
· Customizing voices with same id (e.g. IVONA voices) bug fixed.
· Now the command line mode can be launched correctly when the UI version is running.
· The "Ignore Clipboard text less than..." bug fixed.
· Minimize to tray bug fixed.
· IE toolbar hint on Windows XP bug fixed.
· IE toolbar option controls state bug fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 4.00.10.822:

August 24th, 2010

New Features/Improvements:

Custom Voice List:
· Show/hide voices.
· Rearrange voices.
· Rename voices.
· Show/hide voices.
· Rearrange voices.
· Rename voices.

Pronunciation Editor:
· Enable/disable record separately.
· "Whole Words" option.
· New/modify dialog.
· Wider view.

Talking Reminders:
· Enable/disable record separately.
· Recurrence type option.
· New/modify dialog.
· Auto-naming.
· Wider view.

Typing Speak:
· Typing speak letter by letter.
· Typing speak word by word.
· Typing speak sentence by sentence.

Watch Clipboard:
· Ignore clipboard updates from this application.
· Now also detect unicode text in system clipboard.
· Tray icon for Watch Clipboard.
· The default waiting time of the Clipboard Prompt dialog changed from 9 seconds to 30 seconds.

New Commands/Menu Items:
· "Close Others".
· "Find...".
· "Replace".
· "Word Wrap".

Command Line Mode (ttscmd):
· Added a list audio formats command (/f) and audio format option (-f) for SAPI5 voices.
· /e changed to /v and -e changed to -v.
· Display index number when list voices (/v).
· Display more info when reading/converting.
· More detailed help.

Misc:
· Text to WAV/MP3 commands merged.
· Overriding the default audio output format by choosing different filename extension.
· All toolbars can be customized now.
· Allows to repeat answer for multiple confirmations.
· "Auto-launch at system startup" option.
· Uncheck the "Read the next document automatically" option as default.
· Show position tooltips while adjust speed, pitch and volume.
· The Playback menu changed to the Speech menu.
· The control tags moved to the Speech menu.

Features Removed:
· The speech engine built-in pronunciation manager.
· The "Gray editor when reading" option.
· The "Highlight word" option.
· Tray icon selection.
· The buggy auto-clear memory feature.
· The Splash window and corresponding option.
· The "Show Tip of the Day window at startup" option now unchecked by default.

Bugs Fixed:
· The "Stop" command works for all third party SAPI5 voices now.
· Unable to pause or stop when the current speaking was interrupted by clipboard reading bug fixed.
· System tray popup menu now go away normally when clicking out of it.
· Now window position can be restored correctly.
· Auto-rename instead of auto-overwrite for audio output auto-naming.
· "Add/remove .txt context menu commands" memory leak fixed.
· Speech engine out of range bug fixed for the "-v" switch of ttscmd.
· HtmlHelp bug on Windows 7 fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.30.7.1129:

December 6th, 2007

· Some minor bugs fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.30.7.1025:

October 30th, 2007

· Narrator for Vista supported.
· Indication for SAPI4 only control tags.
· Now the "Close to Tray" option is disabled by default.
· Several minor bugs fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.23.7.828:

August 29th, 2007

· Minor bugs fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.22.7.618:

June 19th, 2007

· Supports new Microsoft Office Word document format(*.docx).
· Save settings automatically when system shutting down.
· Repeating documents option bug fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.21.7.515:

May 17th, 2007

· Better alarm pronunciations.
· Several minor bugs fixed.

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 3.10.061114:

November 20th, 2006

· Open DOC/PDF/RTF/EML/HTML directly