May 23rd, 2013· Updated shortcut setup to allow some shortcuts that were being blocked, such as Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab
· TAForFirefox 3.0.39 - Support for Firefox 22
April 25th, 2013· Fixed problem with changing keyboard layouts from Windows language bar
· Fixed pronunciation dictionary problem with word boundary characters when Pronounce Using set to Spell Text
· Updated install for Firefox toolbar
· TAForFirefox 3.0.38 - Support for Firefox 21
February 28th, 2013· Fixed problem with importing some ePub documents
· Fixed intermittent problem with splash screen when TextAloud started automatically at login
· TAForFirefox 3.0.37 - Support for Firefox 20
January 12th, 2013· Fixed occasional errors related to resizing main window with skins enabled
· New substitution parameter for audio tags: seTitle%. Works like %Title%, but strips leading/trailing sequence numbers
· Fixed Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance error related to adding entries when screenreader is in use
· TAForFirefox 3.0.36 - Support for Firefox 19
November 27th, 2012· ForFirefox 3.0.33 - Fix to run on Windows XP with Firefox 17
October 29th, 2012· Fixed access violation related to certain hotkey definitions
· Other minor fixes
October 16th, 2012· Update toolbars for MS Word and MS Outlook to support Office 2013
· TAForFirefox 3.0.30 - Support for Firefox 17
· Fixed for Acapela voice problems related to between paragraph pauses and bookmark tags
September 17th, 2012· New dictionary format function ##Sum()
· Fix for occasional problem with Word toolbar buttons
· Other minor fixes
August 31st, 2012· TAForFirefox 3.0.27 - Support for Firefox 16
· Fixes related to SAPI5 xml voice change ‘end tag’.
· Fixed date handling problem related to specific short date formats in regional settings
· Other minor fixes
August 16th, 2012· Improved UTF-8 detection when reading text files
· Update File Splitter to prevent writing blank lines at top of split files
· Other minor fixes
July 20th, 2012· TAForFirefox 3.0.26 - Support for Firefox 15
· Minor fixes
July 6th, 2012· Fixed problem that was preventing hotkeys from working with Adobe reader
· Workaround for problem with Acapela voices when pause tags appear in text before the text to be spoken.
· Fixed problem with Find/Replace dialog
June 11th, 2012· Phoneme helper dialog fixes
· Workaround for problem with Acapela voices processing a pause tag immediately following voice change tag
· Fixed errors related to running spell check manually (Tools -> Perform Spell Check)
· TAForFirefox 3.0.25 - Support for Firefox 14
May 18th, 2012· Improve performance for large pronunciation dictionaries
May 2nd, 2012· Fix for occasionally losing toolbar customizations in screen reader mode.
· Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance dictionary validation fix
· TAForFirefox 3.0.24 - Support for Firefox 13
· TAForOutlook 3.0.25 - Outlook 2007 and earlier - Fix to prevent toolbar from displaying at startup when toolbar hidden in View menu
April 10th, 2012· Fixed problem with importing some ePub documents
· Added option to lock toolbars under View menu
· Fixed problem with toolbars occasionally resetting to default configuration, losing customizations
· Fixed problem with losing TA icon in notification area when Windows Explorer restarts following an error
· TAForFirefox 3.0.23 - Update word highlighting to scroll page, scrolling highlighted text into view
April 10th, 2012· Fixes for pronunciation dictionary name validation
· Minor updates for Windows 8
· TAForFirefox 3.0.21 - Support for Firefox 12
· Other minor fixes
February 13th, 2012· Hide article cursor (caret) when reading article text / proofreading
· Updated regular expression engine.
· TAForFirefox 3.0.20 - Support for Firefox 11
· Other minor fixes
February 13th, 2012· TAForFirefox 3.0.19 - Support for Firefox 10
· TAForOutlook 3.0.24 and TAForWord 3.0.29 - Support for 64 bit Office
· Added 64 bit support to Windows Explorer integration
· Fixed problem with using tags
· Fixed problem with losing order of pronunciation dictionary entries when entry(s) added while filter applied
December 9th, 2011· Updated Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance to preserve selected row when filter applied / removed
· Suppress warning dialog displayed when PC shutdown and Toolbar for Internet Explorer connected to TA
· Added link to video tutorials under help menu
November 16th, 2011· TAForFirefox 3.0.16 - Support for Firefox 9
· Fixed problem with importing some epub documents
· Updated regular expression engine
November 16th, 2011· Fix audio quality for L&H Michael / Michelle voices
· Added option to display article line numbers under View menu
October 21st, 2011· Added support for writing RAW PCM audio files
· Added 16 kHz settings to existing Bit / Sample Rate settings for Wav / Raw audio files.
· Fixed problem with Skip to Paragraph when skipping to first or last paragraph in article
· Fixed some display problems related to scrolling article text while speaking.
· Fix for occasional problem with Wav format not available as an Audio File Format.
· Fix for intermittent problem with deleting articles.
· TAForWord 3.0.27 - Fixed Word 2010 crash when document opened in protected view and Enable Editing button clicked
October 4th, 2011· TAForFirefox 3.0.15 - Support for Firefox 8
· Fix for intermittent problem deleting articles
· Fixed error writing audio files when multiple, consecutive split tags occur at beginning of article
· Fixed error on Font Selection dialog when no sizes / character sets associated with selected font
· Fixed problem with Speak From Cursor at start of paragraph and automatic pauses in use
August 31st, 2011· Fixed problem with voice speed resetting to default when resuming from pause
· Fixed background audio to work when splitting audio files
· TAForFirefox 3.0.14 - Support for Firefox 7
August 22nd, 2011· Fixed intermittent problems related to automatic action to delete articles after speaking
· Fixed problem with truncating last word when setting article title from selected text
· Fixed problem with assigning correct voice speed / pitch when article begins with audio clip
· Fixed starting offset problem when using Speak From Cursor
· TAForWord 3.0.26 - Fix for Word 2002 hang at startup
July 28th, 2011· Fixes for setting Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy toolbar button enabled/disabled states
· Fixed problem with losing cursor position when article unarchived in single article mode
· Hotkey fixes
· TAForFirefox 3.0.13 - Support for Firefox 6
July 28th, 2011· Fixed problem with saving articles after unarchving
· TAForOutlook 3.0.20 - Fixed problem with selecting text from email, seems to be related to other add-ons installed
· Improved Sapi4 error handling
· Fixed article focus problem when article deleted
· TAForFirefox 3.0.12 - Rebuild toolbar with latest release versions of Mozilla XULRunner libraries
July 28th, 2011· Fixed Acapela 8 Deepa error 8004503A on Windows XP
· TAForIE 3.0.14 - Misellaneous fixes
· Fixes for Open Office (.odt) file import.
· Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance - retain columns widths in dictionary entry table when columns resized
June 25th, 2011· TAForFirefox 3.0.11 - Support for Firefox 5
· Fixed border displayed around toolbar icons in screenreader compatibility mode
· Fixed problem when hotkey to read text aloud interrupts a previous hotkey request.
June 25th, 2011· TAForWord 3.0.25 - Fix for hiding toolbar at startup (Word 2000 / Word 2003)
· Hotkey fix
· Fix for error resizing main window with skins enabled
June 25th, 2011· Fixed Undo/Redo icons, they were reversed.
· Fixed problem with minimizing main window
· Update to support Sapi5 Context tag
June 25th, 2011· Fixed some problems related to the 3.0.19 update.
June 25th, 2011· Added support for Epub document format (DRM free only)
· Prevent progress bar from resetting following Pause / Resume
· Fixed error when restoring window from maximized state with skins enabled and speaking in progress
· Fix for splitting text (by size) in middle of xml tags when article contains {{split}} tags
· Other miscellaneous fixes
June 25th, 2011· Fix related to loading Scansoft voices
· Fix for occasional stack overflow error.
· Added option on Article Options panel to write audio for multiple articles to a single audio file
· TAForFirefox 3.0.10 - Prevent clearing text selection when finished speaking and word highlighting not enabled
· TAForWord 3.0.24 - Update to restart speaking when voice dropdown changed and already speaking.
· Fix intermittent error with Microsoft Anna when using hotkeys
· Character filtering fix to prevent pronouncing the word ‘dot’.
April 1st, 2011· Screenreader mode fixes
· Fixed occasional access violation in setup wizard.
· TAForWord 3.0.23 - Fixed startup delay problem with Word 2000 when toolbar installed
· Fixed proofreader errors related to voices disabled / uninstalled
· Removed code that was resequencing custom article titles on each article import / delete
· Fixed sample rate used for Cereproc voices
March 22nd, 2011· In pronunciation editor, added ability to move/copy dictionary entries between dictionaries using drag and drop.
· Word highlighting fixes
· Fixed problem with progress bar display on main window
March 7th, 2011· Fixed problem with handling word boundary phoneme (&) character on windows xp
· Fixed problems with Dictionary Maintenance display
· Fixed word highlighting problem with AT&T voices
· Handle errors related to opening invalid audio clips and invalid background audio files
· Handle error when launching proofreader window when TA is busy
· Fix Pause / Stop problems with IBM ViaVoice
· Text filtering was not allowing Sapi5 XML tag PARTOFSP
March 7th, 2011· Output audio to left and right channels when speaking text aloud with Sapi5 voices
· Fixed problem using escape key to close pronunciation editor dialog
· Fixed intermittent problem with File Open dialog related to skins enabled
March 7th, 2011· Workaround for problems with Pause / Stop and Cepstral voices
· Fix problems related to word boundary character in regular expressions and masks
· Improve error handling in mp3 encoder
· Fixed problem related to audio file splitting
· Other miscellaneous fixes
March 7th, 2011· Added automatic action to bring TextAloud main window to foreground when text imported
· Added menu entry Set Article Title from Selected Text to Edit and Article Popup menus
· Fixed text file import problem
· Fixed Sapi4 Pause / Stop problem with some Sapi4 voices.
· Fixed article archiving option. Option was being ignored when disabled.
· Fixed pronunciation editor problem related to word boundary option
March 7th, 2011· Toolbar updates for Internet Explorer, Outlook and Microsoft Word
· Fixed Word 2003 startup delay with TA Toolbar installed
· Fixed some problems related to step navigation.
· Fixes for some problems with automatic actions.
· Minor Pronunciation Dictionary performance improvement
· Other miscellaneous fixes
March 7th, 2011· On TextAloud Options Fonts tab, allow font sizes to be entered manually in addition to selecting from preset sizes.
· Fixed some problems with step navigations.
· Fixes for problems when 'data' directory path contains non-western characters
· Update automatic action to speak new articles to handle articles added while speaking is in progress.
· Fixed problem with using article navigations while playing audio clips.
· Fixes for connection problems when generating TextAloud error / problem reports
· Fixed audio file hang problems related to ulead acm codecs
· Added 'en dash' and 'em dash' to Symbols.chl file to allow these dash symbols to work with Speak Character option
· Fixed font / display problem on Character Speaking and Filtering edit dialog
· Updated File Open to work when Word 2000 is installed
· TAForFirefox 3.0.9 - Support for Firefox 4
March 7th, 2011· Fixed problem with losing articles when editing the article title and new title contains one or more trailing spaces
· Fixed occasional problem with new article not displayed correctly
March 7th, 2011· Fix article refresh problem during auto save
· Fixed minor typo in TextAloud Help menu.
· TAForWord 3.0.19 - Fixed problem with international keyboards not working in Word until space or carriage return entered
March 7th, 2011· Fix for intermittent problems with loading Acapela voices
March 7th, 2011· Fixed word highlighting problem introduced in version 3.0.3 that was causing text refreshes and text jumping up and down
· Updated installer to make integration with Windows Explorer optional
· TAForWord 3.0.18 - Updates to load command bar faster in office 2003, and modified to register toolbar for all users on the machine
March 7th, 2011· Fixed font / character set problem with unarchive dialog
· Fixed problem with using wma files for background audio
· Fixed error deleting pronunciation dictionary entries when entry is selected but does not have focus
· Fixed problem with retaining position in article following TextAloud restart.
· Fixed problem with losing dictionary enabled/disabled states when changing dictionary sequence in pronunciation editor
· TAForWord 3.0.16 - Fixed problems with enabling / disabling Speak Selected Text button with multiple Word windows open
March 7th, 2011· Fixed phoneme string validation on dictionary entry edit dialog
· Fixed problem with enabling live spell check on multiple article tabs
· Implemented API calls SetOutputFormat and Shutdown
· Lame_Enc.dll version 3.98.4 - Fixes occasional floating point error
· Testing fix for AV when closing File Open Working dialog with skins enabled
· Add reseller setting AcmCodecsEnabled. Set to false to prevent loading ACM audio drivers in case of driver problems.
March 7th, 2011· Fixed problem with filtering left angle bracket for Sapi5 voices
· Fixed problem with end of sentence pause used in place of end of paragraph pause when both pauses specified.
· Fixed problem with shortcuts resetting when system default shortcut cleared in shortcut setup and TextAloud restarted.
· Allow Spacebar to be assigned as shortcut / hotkey provided Ctrl or Alt is included in the hotkey.
· TAForOutlook 3.0.11 - Allow changing dock position of toolbar in the Outlook window
January 20th, 2010· Fix for exception caused by automatic upgrade protection
December 16th, 2009· New voice support, Windows 7 support, New Firefox plugin
December 12th, 2009· Minor fixes, update to automatic update checking, support for some new Acapela voices
July 28th, 2009· Have just released new Nuance RealSpeak voices
January 28th, 2009· Minor release with several small bug fixes.
July 25th, 2007· The latest version of NextUp Talker, our product for those who can no longer speak, includes a spell checker. Options->Spell Checker gives you settings for this new feature.
October 4th, 2006· Improvements in reading Word .doc files
September 2nd, 2006· Minor bug fixes. Improved IE TTS Toolbar
July 1st, 2006· Firefox fixes
· New sapi5 tts voices
May 31st, 2006· New voices from Acapela, ScanSoft RealSpeak. Firefox fixes
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