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Speaking Clock Deluxe Changelog

What's new in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.62

Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.61 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.6 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.52 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.51 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.5 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.06 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.05 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.04 (Dec 15, 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

New in Speaking Clock Deluxe 3.03a (Dec 15, 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