Speed Reading Changelog

What's new in Speed Reading 1.1

Oct 17, 2013
  • [New] There is now a preference to combine paragraphs, for example from truncated emails or text copied from PDF files.
  • [New] You can now Summarise Text (MacOS only) down to a user-specified number of sentences.
  • [New] You can now highlight text and have Apple Services perform tasks such as Summarise.
  • [New] You can now choose to have the spoken text highlighted by Word, Line, Sentence or Paragraph.
  • [New] When the highlighted text is below the visible screen the screen pages down.
  • [New] There is now a preference to remove web addresses.
  • [New] There is now a preference to remove email addresses.
  • [New] There is now a preference to clean the text. This removes excess spaces and returns, plus other edits.
  • [New] Once speech has finished it checks to see if different text is on the Clipboard. If so, it will speak the new Clipboard text.
  • [New] Now saves your Preferences and font size between saves.
  • [New] Compatible with Retina Display.
  • [New] Compatible with Mountain Lion.
  • [Fix] No longer displays some text artefacts when reading new text from clipboard.
  • [Fix] No longer crashes on the last word of certain texts.
  • [Fix] Bringing the application to the foreground while speech is running and with new clipboard text no longer cancels the current speech.