Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.62 - Changelog

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.62:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· You can now (at last) use MP3 or WMA files for your alarms
· The custom chime sound can now be set to any .WAV file, using
· an easy-to-use file browser (just like the alarm and timer sound)

Fixes:
· Bug fix for the calculator display
· Announce volume was not saved correctly
· Announcement thread now has higher priority, to avoid "stutter"
· Filename-length limit for alarm sound has been increased

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.61:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· The timer alert sound can now be set to any .WAV file, using
· an easy-to-use file browser (just like the alarm sound)

Fixes:
· Bug fix for the calculator, sometimes the decimal point did not
· work correctly

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.6:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· Text-to-speech functions are now designed to work with Speech API
· ver 5.0 or newer, meaning all TTS functionality will work
· directly out-of-the-box with Windows 2000/XP/Vista
· The calculator function is now implemented as a separate window
· as many users did not understand how to use the calculator in
· previous versions
· The volume of time announcements can now be adjusted
· Languages can now be selected from the popup menu. The language
· selection button has been removed
· New skin: Aluminium

Fixes:
· Several changes to improve compatibility with Windows XP and Vista
· The user interface has been re-designed with a more modern look
· Minor bugfixes in several areas

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.52:

December 15th, 2011

Fixes:
· The small analog display mode now updates the time correctly
· When the autosync feature was enabled, time announcements could
· sometimes "stutter". This have now been corrected

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.51:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· The "time in tray" option that displays the time in the system tray
· now offers a font/color setting, which makes it possible to control
· the look of the time display

Fixes:
· The "time in tray" will stay visible on Windows XP, even if the
· Windows XP default option of auto-hiding icons is enabled. You need
· to select the "Custom-font" option for this to work

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.5:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· New graphics subsystem, which will improve compatibility with some
· video cards, and resolve a few other annoying issues
· New handling of language files, these files are now located in the
· subdirectory "voice", and have new, more meaningful, names. All old-
· style files will be moved and renamed when this version is run the
· first time
· New time synchronization engine which uses the SNTP protocol. This
· is a more modern and exact protocol. Now there is also a schedule
· option for time synchronizations, which will automatically connect
· to a time server on a selected interval
· New timer options: A timer or stopwatch can now announce the time
· left/time elapsed, the interval is selectable. A preset time can
· also be defined, that affects all created timers
· A timer can be started from an alarm, which means a preset timer
· can be started at the time set in the alarm
· The settings dialog has changed completely, it's now divided in
· logical groups to make it easier to find the settings for each
· function. Due to this, some settings have moved to a more logical
· place
· A transparency option for the display have been added, this only
· works on Windows 2000/XP
· The analog tray icon face now indicates the time
· Help file now in HTML format

Fixes:
· The timing base for timers have been changed, it's now completely
· accurate on all systems (i.e. do no longer rely on OS timers)
· The tray icon and taskbar problems with Windows Xp have been
· fixed
· New big analog face design (thanks Paul!)
· Many other minor fixes

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.06:

December 15th, 2011

· News
· You can now set a custom sound for both announcements and timer
· events. For this to work you need to rename the WAV file(s) of
· your choice to either "announce.wav" or "timer.wav" and place
· the file(s) in the clock's directory. Then select this sound in
· the settings dialog
· Alarms can now quickly be disabled or enabled by right-clicking
· and choosing "Enable" or "Disable" from the popup menu
· When the alarm goes off (with the alarm alert window), the screen
· will activate even if it was in energy saver mode
· When the clock is run for the first time, a quick setup screen
· is displayed, which will help the user with basic settings

Fixes:
· The last used text-to-speech voice was not restored properly when
· the clock was restarted. This is now fixed
· A few minor text changes in dialogs, to make some options easier
· to understand

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.05:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· The speech interface is completely rewritten, and as a result the
· clock is now compatible with more speech engines, most notable the
· Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice American English engine (the default
· engine for MS Agent characters)

Fixes:
· The detection routine for MS Agent and text-to-speech ActiveX
· components is updated, and if a component is installed but
· not properly registered the user will be asked if the clock
· should try and register the component. The previous versions
· displayed an error message and did not work properly before
· the component was manually registered

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.04:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· A new option is available in the alarm settings dialog
· Automatically close the alarm window. This means an open alarm
· alert window will close itself after 30 seconds, so that new alarms
· will pop up. In previous versions, you needed to click the OK button
· on each alarm window in order to see/hear new alarm alerts

Fixes:
· The time display in the system tray now works correctly with Windows
· XP. The startup delay for adjusting the system tray time display has
· been increased

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.03a:

December 15th, 2011

News:
· The language selection button is now available in the main
· display again, if natural speech is selected. No need to
· open the settings dialog to change language
· Improved install/uninstall routine, now detects if the clock
· is running while performing the uninstall
· Updated help file