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What's new in TextAloud 4.0.72.2 Pre-release

Oct 26, 2023
  • Added a constraint on the Proofeader Form minimum height

New in TextAloud 4.0.72.1 Pre-release (Oct 16, 2023)

  • Fix bugs with supporting line spacing, secondary highlighting and masking options in the proofreader window
  • Fixed bugs with changing primary / secondary highlighting and masking while proofread in progress

New in TextAloud 4.0.72 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • Fix bug with saving pronunciation dictionaries when creating dictionary with no entries, and when moving / copying entries between dictionaries

New in TextAloud 4.0.71 (Jul 30, 2023)

  • Fixed an error inTextAloud’s Word Document import that we were seeing with certain Word documents

New in TextAloud 4.0.70 (May 21, 2023)

  • Acapela Infovox - changes to allow HQ voices to coexist with Colibri voices. Allow pitch support for Colibri voices.
  • Fix bug in LibreOffice ODT document import that was causing some text to be imported out of order
  • Fix Speaking Rule to change voices at double quotes to handle Sapi5 phoneme tags inside the quoted text

New in TextAloud 4.0.69 (Apr 1, 2023)

  • Added new configurable Increment Speed (Faster) and Decrement Speed (Slower) buttons to main toolbar
  • New dynamic voice change tags for inserting voice change tags for system default voice: {{voice=default/}} and voice assigned to current article / request: {{voice=request/}}

New in TextAloud 4.0.67 (Dec 4, 2022)

  • Minor updates

New in TextAloud 4.0.66 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Update office add-ins (Word and Outlook) to prevent add-in from becoming disabled in some situations
  • Fix for a problem that was causing pronunciation dictionary corruption
  • New option in file splitter to append / prepend sequence numbers to chapter titles when splitting epubs by chapter
  • Fixed issue with Repeat tag related to handling mix of text and embedded audio tags

New in TextAloud 4.0.65 (Jul 16, 2022)

  • Fixed bug with batch file converter when using background audio option

New in TextAloud 4.0.64 (Sep 28, 2021)

  • Fixed bug related to speaking new articles automatically while waiting on speak to file confirmation prompts
  • Fixed progress bar color issue with Windows10 Blue theme
  • Fixed problem with pause between sentences not working in certain conditions.

New in TextAloud 4.0.63 (Sep 2, 2021)

  • Minor fixes for themes and other bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.62 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Improve display of disabled toolbar icons when TextAloud theme is enabled
  • Prevent file sharing errors when saving articles while article files are being read by antivirus / backup programs
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.61 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • Fixed issue with stop hotkey causing application errors under some conditions
  • Fixed an issue related to voice change tags at parentheses

New in TextAloud 4.0.60 (May 31, 2021)

  • Fix for problem playing audio notifications if audio device not responding
  • Fix error displayed when splitting ePub document and document does not contain table of contents
  • Fix SSML error related to speaking rule to insert voice changes at parentheses under some conditions
  • Fix error in Addin for Word related to clicking the Pause button

New in TextAloud 4.0.59 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • New option in article list popup menu to control whether double clicking article title starts speaking the article
  • Fixed a bug with loading files into the batch file converter

New in TextAloud 4.0.58 (Feb 2, 2021)

  • New Batch File Converter utility available under Control Center menu
  • Fixed intermittent issue with losing selection colors in TextAloud main window
  • Workaround for issue where some voices insert the word ‘capitol’ when spelling upper case text
  • Fixed scrolling issue in TextAloud for Word addin when using the Pause button
  • Fixed file encoding issues related to writing text files from File Splitter and loading PDF documents

New in TextAloud 4.0.57 (Dec 7, 2020)

  • Improve Search/Replace performance. Fix issues with searching large number of articles
  • Handle error related to settings information becoming corrupted

New in TextAloud 4.0.56 (Nov 9, 2020)

  • Fixed issue in MS Word extension - shading actions related to word highlighting appear in Undo list
  • Fixed issue with speaking rule to change voice for text in parentheses. Related to unpaired closing parentheses in text
  • Added menu entry to reset main toolbar defaults under View -> Main Toolbar Options

New in TextAloud 4.0.55 (Oct 6, 2020)

  • Fixed issue with floating toolbar related to speaking already in progress
  • Voice change speaking rule was causing punctuation to be pronounced under some conditions
  • Fixed issue with speaking rule to format urls when used with rule to filter characters

New in TextAloud 4.0.54 (Aug 14, 2020)

  • Fixed a bug with installing the Edge extension
  • Fixed problem related to accelerator keys

New in TextAloud 4.0.53 (Aug 10, 2020)

  • Suppress prompt when running uninstaller silently
  • Fixed a problem with saving the list of applications ignored by Watch Mouse
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.52 (Jul 13, 2020)

  • Fixed issue with speaking text with floating toolbar when speaking already in progress
  • Adjusted speaking rule for handling words with MixedCase characters to handle camelCase
  • Adjusted speaking rule for end of sentence pauses to prevent Cerence voices from pronouncing double quote characters
  • Fixed errors related to importing documents that contain null characters

New in TextAloud 4.0.51 (Jun 19, 2020)

  • New extension for Microsoft Edge
  • Fixed some issues with importing Open Office (.odt) documents

New in TextAloud 4.0.50 (Jun 19, 2020)

  • Improve performance when speaking large documents containing large number of voice control / voice change tags
  • Fixed issues related to disabling voices on voice options panel for voices used in speaking rules or hot key definitions
  • Updated import hotkey to handle TextAloud in single article mode and speaking in progress

New in TextAloud 4.0.49 (May 7, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the floating toolbar from launching in some situations
  • Fixed file splitter to convert html codes in chapter titles when splitting epub documents by chapter

New in TextAloud 4.0.48 (Apr 23, 2020)

  • Fixed a problem related to displaying the clipboard prompt

New in TextAloud 4.0.47 (Apr 17, 2020)

  • Fixed issue with pasting text into pronunciation dictionary add / edit entry dialog
  • Fixed speaking rule for voice changes at parentheses to handle consecutive parenthese pairs

New in TextAloud 4.0.46 (Mar 28, 2020)

  • Fixed problem with check for update dialog displayed behind other windows
  • Fixed an install problem on 32 bit versions of Windows

New in TextAloud 4.0.45 (Mar 24, 2020)

  • Handle audio device errors caused by device disconnecting while system idle
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.44 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • Minor improvements to the proofreader window, including support for pause/resume keyboard shortcut and keyboard accelerator for the options button (Alt + O)
  • Fixed intermittent problem with cursor position in main window off by one word after speaking article
  • Automatically filter non breaking spaces from text inserted by word processors, prevents problems with some voices
  • Fixed crashes related to using batch mode

New in TextAloud 4.0.43 (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Fixed for error happening occassionally at TextAloud startup
  • Fixed issue where voice change rules do not work in certain conditions
  • Dropdown boxes in Search / Replace dialogs were not accessible

New in TextAloud 4.0.42 (Jan 28, 2020)

  • New Accessibility panel in TextAloud Settings. Includes new options:
  • Set tab stops on article tabs when using tabbed display (requires TextAloud restart)
  • Display the current article title in the main window title bar.
  • Moved existing option to control article line width to the accessibility panel
  • Fixed accessibility issues on several settings panels / dialogs
  • Fixed issues related to launching TextAloud Help with theme enabled
  • Fixed problem with losing paragraph breaks between chapters when importing epub documents with File -> Open
  • Updated help

New in TextAloud 4.0.41 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Moved existing option to control article line width to the accessibility panel
  • Updated help
  • Minor bug fixes
  • New Accessibility panel in TextAloud Settings. Includes new options:
  • Set tab stops on article tabs when using tabbed display
  • Display the current article title in the main window title bar.

New in TextAloud 4.0.40 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Made TextAloud's default pronunciation of URLs a speaking rule (Pronounce URLs), allowing the rule to be disabled.
  • Added new system wide hotkey to minimize / restore the TextAloud main window
  • Fixed issue with article text selection being cleared when speaking article and word highlighting not enabled
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.39 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Fixed issue that was preventing problem reporting to connect to problem reporting server
  • Fixed a character encoding problem with extracting text from epub documents

New in TextAloud 4.0.39 (Dec 6, 2019)

  • Fixed issue that was preventing problem reporting to connect to problem reporting server
  • Fixed a character encoding problem with extracting text from epub documents

New in TextAloud 4.0.38 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • Fix problem pasting text into article title field related to newline characters in the pasted text
  • Fix problems caused by using {{split}} tags in some situations

New in TextAloud 4.0.36 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fix voice change speaking rule to prevent voice from pronouncing punctuation in some situations
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.35 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fixed speaking rules problem related to inserting pauses at voice change tags
  • Added new formatting function ##spell in pronunciation dictionary mainteance for voices that do not support sapi spell tag

New in TextAloud 4.0.34 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fixed crash in pronunciation dictionary maintenance under certain conditions
  • Updated Check For Updates to report if new version is available instead of launching download page
  • Some other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.33 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fixed problem with WordPerfect document import
  • Fixed a problem with handling some sequences of multiple clipboard notifications
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.32 (May 22, 2019)

  • Fixed application freeze introduced in version 4.0.31

New in TextAloud 4.0.31 (May 20, 2019)

  • Bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.30 (Apr 27, 2019)

  • Improvements to TextAloud themes, including system / File Open dialogs and better support for Windows dark mode
  • Fixed screenreader compatibilty issue with automatic pauses panel
  • Several bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.29 (Mar 8, 2019)

  • Minor updates.

New in TextAloud 4.0.28 (Feb 12, 2019)

  • TAForFirefox 4.0.8 - Fixed problem that was causing browser console to display first time keyboard shortcut used

New in TextAloud 4.0.27 (Feb 11, 2019)

  • Fixed problems with applying speaking rules / pronunciation dictionaries in some situations
  • Added additional validation for xml tags in the text
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.26 (Feb 11, 2019)

  • Fixed problems with creating / validating article titles when the title is pasted into the article title field
  • Fixes for some problems related to applying pronunciation dictionaries and speaking rules
  • Fixed a bug with importing Microsoft Word documents when the document contains multiple comments

New in TextAloud 4.0.25 (Jan 8, 2019)

  • ● Updated installer to fix issues related to Office add-ins not installing correctly
  • ● Updated Help
  • ● Fixed a problem with speaking rules that was causing occasional application hangs
  • ● Fixed cosmetic issue with importing rich text files (.rtf) that caused some window flashing / flickering during the import
  • ● Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.24 (Dec 29, 2018)

  • Fixed an error related to the voice options panel fix in the previous version

New in TextAloud 4.0.23 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Improvements to clipboard monitor
  • Added option to play audio confirmation for system-wide hotkeys that toggle watch clipboard and watch mouse
  • Fixed issue related to using floating toolbar with Microsoft Edge browser
  • Fixed an intemittent error when displaying the voice options panel in TextAloud settings
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.22 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Fixes for TextAloud Themes and Clipboard monitor related to Window October update
  • Fixed problem with saving archiving preferences when prompted during article delete
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.21 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Fixed display of About Dialog with Windows high contrast theme selected
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.20 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • Firefox Add-in - fixed keyboard shortcut validation to prevent creating shortcuts using only the Shift key
  • Fixed a problem related to automatically purging the archive at TextAloud startup
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.19 (Aug 14, 2018)

  • Word Add-in - fixed to allow speaking text selection that includes footnotes. (Word Highlighting currently not supported for footontes).
  • Fixed a performance issue related to automatic pauses with locales that do not use periods for decimal separators
  • Miscellaneous word highlighting updates / fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.18 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • New advanced setting “Keep display powered on when speaking aloud”. Defaults to Yes, new option allows override
  • Fixed a bug with importing word documents
  • Fixed a bug that was causing option to automatically speak new articles to skip paragraphs at top of article.
  • Fixed an installer hang we were seeing under rare conditions.

New in TextAloud 4.0.17 (Jun 29, 2018)

  • Fixed a problem with splitting some epub documents by chapter in the file splitter
  • Updated Firefox extension installation for compatability with Firefox 62

New in TextAloud 4.0.16 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Fixed a bug with Step To Previous Word

New in TextAloud 4.0.15 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Fixed a problem that prevented default spell check dictionary from working when UK or Austrailian English voice assigned to article
  • When right clicking misspelled word, popup menu displayed now contains an autocorrect menu. Autocorrect was previously available only when peforming a full spell check from the control center menu.
  • Corrected some spelling errors in online help
  • Fixed a problem related to receiving Pause / Resume shortcuts or button clicks too quickly
  • Fixed problem with inserting control tags (speed, voice change, etc) that caused some settings to reset unexpectedly
  • Updated Word document import (File -> Open) to remove headers, footers and comments from imported article text

New in TextAloud 4.0.14 (Jun 7, 2018)

  • New Lame MP3 encoding presets: 16.000 kbps / 16.000 kHz / Mono and 56.000 kbps / 22.050 kHz / Stereo
  • Fixed problems with temporary files created when writing audio files to Dropbox folder
  • Fixed problems related to Voice Change dropdowns in Speaking Rules allowing Sapi4 voices to be used
  • Fixed error when changing themes
  • Fixed bug with using spacebar to end scroll navigation and speak from new position
  • Fixed bug with importing some html files related to character encoding

New in TextAloud 4.0.13 (May 29, 2018)

  • Fixed bug with moving cursor to end of article after creating audio file
  • Fixed bug with using voice change tags with names containing accented characters, such as Penélope
  • Other bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.12 (May 26, 2018)

  • Increase display time for ‘New Version Available’ notification based on notification display time in Windows Settings.
  • Fixed application crash related to drag and drop

New in TextAloud 4.0.11 (May 21, 2018)

  • Added compabibility with NVDA screenreader
  • Editing article text while article is paused now resets the pause state. Remove resume button and hide progress bar
  • Updated step navigations to pause when a step completes, allowing you to resume from where the step ended
  • Fixed a problem with using Ivona voices in TextAloud related to having multiple Ivona versions installed

New in TextAloud 4.0.10 (May 15, 2018)

  • Make archiving prompt configurable in settings. Previously there was not a way to turn prompting on again after it was disabled
  • Added support for templates as split file names. Valid tokens in split file names are %sn% (sequence number) and %title% (article title). For example, you can now use names like MyName_%sn% as split file names
  • Added Step items to Navigations menu (Step to Next/Previous Line, and Step To Next/Previous Word)
  • Bug fixes

New in TextAloud 4.0.9 (May 7, 2018)

  • Added Skip to Next Line / Skip to Previous Line to Navigations menu
  • Fixed an xml parser error related to using tags in the text to change speed

New in TextAloud 4.0.8 (May 3, 2018)

  • Fixed problem with progress bar in main window resetting when speaking paused
  • Fixed problem where Sapi4 voice installation problem prevents TextAloud from starting

New in TextAloud 4.0.7 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • Allow Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to be assigned as keyboard shortcuts, overriding default tabbing behavior in main window
  • For new installs, switch shortcuts for skipping to next / previous article from F10 and F11 to Alt+F10 and Alt+F11. F10 is used by Windows to navigate the main menu from the keyboard
  • For new installs and upgrades, change default setting for Use Document Name as Article Title to True
  • Mouse / Clipboard options - separated option to ignore updates while speaking to separate options to ignore updates while speaking aloud and ignore updates while creating audio files

New in TextAloud 4.0.6 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Fixed problem with handling sequence numbers in article titles when importing files created by file splitter
  • When importing articles using drag and drop, import files sorted by file name
  • Was not resizing voice settings panel in main window when changing voice and pitch slider visibility changes

New in TextAloud 4.0.5 (Apr 18, 2018)

  • Fix for speaking rule that inserts voice changes at single quoted and double quoted text
  • Fixes for audio device handing related to writing audio files and playing notification sound files
  • Updated Word add-in with stability fixes and improve error logging

New in TextAloud 4.0.4 (Apr 16, 2018)

  • Fixed an intermittent crash related to accessing the main menu after changing themes
  • Handle Shift+Tab when article control has focus. Places focus in article title field, for compatibility with TextAloud 3
  • Fixed bug with reading text aloud when text contains split tags and tags specify split names containing spaces
  • Fixed problem with keyboard shortcuts not working in online help
  • Updated Word add-in to disable highlighting changes in made in 4.0.2 if running Word 2003.

New in TextAloud 4.0.3 (Apr 9, 2018)

  • New option under View -> Article Toolbars to hide the toolbar panel containing the Article Title and Voice
  • Fixed problem with Sapi5 end tags not working when followed by an audio clip
  • Fixed crash in pronunciation dictionary maintenance when clicking the New Entry button
  • Updated installer to handle situation where old TA version found on system and previous install location unavailable

New in TextAloud 4.0.2 (Apr 4, 2018)

  • Udated version of add-in for Microsoft Word. Includes support for configurable highlighting color, keyboard shortcuts, and abutton on the ribbon to display TextAloud Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance.
  • ● Updated version add-in for Microsoft Outlook to handle errors related to accessing text in the Outlook window
  • ● Fixed problem in TextAloud Settings, General Application Options with audio device setting if no supported audio devices on the system
  • ● Fixed an issue with File -> Open related to file encoding
  • ● Improvements in Sapi5 XML validation
  • ● Fixed a problem that was causing incorrect text offsets in Find / Replace dialog
  • ● Display an hourglass cursor when loading large articles
  • ● Fixed an intermittent issue in large articles resulting in words being split incorrectly.
  • ● Cosmetic updates to About dialog

New in TextAloud 3.0.114 (Feb 6, 2018)

  • Updated problem reporting component
  • Updated urls in the app to use secure http

New in TextAloud 3.0.113 (Jan 3, 2018)

  • Firefox Extension 4.0.4 -
  • Fixed issue with speed slider visibility when expanding / collapsing options panel.
  • Added support for keyboard shortuts

New in TextAloud 3.0.111 (Nov 22, 2017)

  • Firefox Extension 4.0.0 - Compatibility with Firefox 57 (Quantum)

New in TextAloud 3.0.110 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Updated extensions for Word, Outlook, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Stability improvements.
  • Fixed problem in phoneme helper dialog related to UK English voices

New in TextAloud 3.0.109 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • Firefox extension 3.2.6 - stability improvements

New in TextAloud 3.0.108 (Jun 30, 2017)

  • Fix for Firefox extension related to using the Stop button

New in TextAloud 3.0.106 (May 3, 2017)

  • Fixes for Firefox extension

New in TextAloud 3.0.105 (Feb 22, 2017)

  • Fixed problem with setting article title when pasting text into an empty article
  • Fixed problem related to invalid decimal separators in pause tag menu entries

New in TextAloud 3.0.104 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Fixed a problem with importing some ePub documents
  • Fixed problem with updating the status bar in some situations
  • Updates for error reporting / problem reporting system

New in TextAloud 3.0.103 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Fixed a problem in the article unarhcive dialog related to sorting articles by date

New in TextAloud 3.0.102 (Nov 8, 2016)

  • Fixed a problem with recovering from corrupt / missing configuration files in some cases

New in TextAloud 3.0.101 (Oct 12, 2016)

  • Minor update / stability improvement

New in TextAloud 3.0.100 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Update status bar to include current article number along with the count, for example ‘Article 9 of 10 Articles’
  • Display warning when creating character filter that includes alphanumeric text
  • Some stability improvements

New in TextAloud 3.0.99 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Fixed problem with Acapela voices failing to load on some systems

New in TextAloud 3.0.98 (Jul 28, 2016)

  • Fixed a problem with hotkey update in previous version, casuing hotkeys to freeze on some systems

New in TextAloud 3.0.97 (Jul 26, 2016)

  • Improved hotkey performance
  • Fixed bug on voice options panel with speed / pitch / volume slider controls

New in TextAloud 3.0.96 (Jul 8, 2016)

  • Handle a condition where TextAloud is not able to see installed Sapi5 voices and is unable to start

New in TextAloud 3.0.95 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Fixed problem with split tag when using a single character as the split name
  • Minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.94 (May 17, 2016)

  • Rollback spell check component update in previous version due to some issues it is causing.
  • New Advanced Settings option to allow Pronunciation Dictionary entries to overwrite changes from other entries

New in TextAloud 3.0.93 (May 6, 2016)

  • Updated spell check component and American English dictionary
  • Fixed problem with losing tray icon
  • Error handling improvements related to writing audio files

New in TextAloud 3.0.91 (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Fixed hang problem when clicking Stop button while writing audio files.
  • Fixed problem with status field not updating on splash screen during TextAloud startup
  • Fixed a problem with validating double quote characters in Sapi5 XML tags

New in TextAloud 3.0.90 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • Updates for error reporting / problem reporting system

New in TextAloud 3.0.89 (Jan 25, 2016)

  • Fix problem with losing some paragraph breaks when importing epub documents.
  • Fix problem with split tags using option to specify split names - wasn’t working if tag placed at beginning of article.
  • Allow space characters to be used in split names
  • New TextAloud extension for Chrome

New in TextAloud 3.0.88 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Pronunciation dictionary maintenance - added option under View menu to lock toolbars
  • TAForFirefox 3.2.5 - Add support for 64 bit Firefox.

New in TextAloud 3.0.87 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.2.4 - Fixes for Add Article button, and fix problem with clearing text selection when speaking finishes
  • Minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.86 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.2.1 - Updated toolbar for compatibility with Firefox 42

New in TextAloud 3.0.85 (Sep 26, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.1.1 - Fixed problem with toolbar display when multiple Firefox windows open (File -> New Window)

New in TextAloud 3.0.84 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.1 - Updated toolbar for compatibility with Firefox 40
  • Improved performance of Edit -> Replace All for large number of replacements
  • Fixed decimal separator problem with SetOutputFileFormat API call

New in TextAloud 3.0.83 (Jul 2, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.57 - Updated for release version of Firefox 39

New in TextAloud 3.0.82 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.56 - Added support for Firefox 39
  • Fixed bug in previous version related to generating article titles when pasting text into article

New in TextAloud 3.0.81 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • Generate article titles when pasting text into blank article

New in TextAloud 3.0.80 (Apr 3, 2015)

  • Added 24 and 48 kHz quality settings for PCM and RAW Wav files.
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.55 - Added support for Firefox 38

New in TextAloud 3.0.79 (Mar 13, 2015)

  • Fixed a proofreading problem, and some other minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.78 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Main window progress bar now always indicates position from beginning of article, instead of from where speaking started
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.54 - Added support for Firefox 37

New in TextAloud 3.0.77 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.76 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • Fixed vendor name problem in pronunciation dictionary maintenance, introduced in 3.0.75

New in TextAloud 3.0.75 (Jan 15, 2015)

  • Allow phoneme testing directly from Add/Edit Dictionary Entry dialog, eliminating need to use Phoneme Helper dialog.
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.53 - Added support for Firefox 36
  • Other minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.74 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Pronunciation Dictionary Performance improvements
  • Fixed bug related to using Apply button on Add Entry dialog in Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.52 - Added support for Firefox 35
  • Other minor updates

New in TextAloud 3.0.73 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Fixed a shutdown problem related to 3.0.72 update

New in TextAloud 3.0.72 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Fixed screen reader related problem in Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance dialog
  • Fixed occasional display problem with Filter Panel in Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance
  • Fixed intermittent error during TA shutdown when shutdown requested by voice installer
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.51 - Support for Firefox 34

New in TextAloud 3.0.71 (Sep 6, 2014)

  • Fixed bug with using Select All when article title field has focus
  • Fixed problem with Pauses and Text Insertions dialog
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.50 - Support for Firefox 33

New in TextAloud 3.0.70 (Jul 25, 2014)

  • Added support for user specified split names with {{Split}} audio file tag. Tag now allows {{Split=MySplitName}}
  • Fixed a problem that was causing search to fail when searching backwards
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.49 - Support for Firefox 32

New in TextAloud 3.0.69 (Jun 14, 2014)

  • New option on Article Options panel to highlight the current tab
  • Fixed problem with detecting drm protection in some epub documents
  • Fixed accelerator keys in main window
  • Fixed problem related to writing audio files with AT&T voices and phoneme pronunciation corrections
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.48 - Support for Firefox 31

New in TextAloud 3.0.68 (May 23, 2014)

  • Fixed a problem with launching invalid url’s in the TextAloud main window
  • When creating articles from the file splitter, set focus on first article created instead of the last one.

New in TextAloud 3.0.67 (May 2, 2014)

  • Fixed sizing problem with pronunciation dictionary maintenance dialog
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.47 - Support for Firefox 30

New in TextAloud 3.0.66 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • New Advanced Setting, Clipboard Processing Delay, solves very rare clipboard related problems.
  • Miscellaneous fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.65 (Mar 21, 2014)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.46 - Support for Firefox 29
  • Miscellaneous fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.64 (Feb 8, 2014)

  • Fixed problem with losing some accented characters when loading epub documents
  • TAForOutlook 3.0.31, TAForWord 3.0.35 - Fix for intermittent freeze problem on Windows 8
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.45 - Support for Firefox 28

New in TextAloud 3.0.63 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • TAForIE 3.0.18 - Fixed problem with toolbar for Internet Explorer freezing occasionally in IE11
  • Fixed problem with handling keyboard volume controls

New in TextAloud 3.0.62 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.44 - Support for Firefox 27

New in TextAloud 3.0.61 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Update required for web service used for TextAloud problem reporting

New in TextAloud 3.0.60 (Nov 1, 2013)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.43 - Support for Firefox 26
  • Miscellaneous fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.59 (Sep 21, 2013)

  • Add support for replaceable parameters in Display Text field for visual notifications. Supports %Title%, %Voice%, %ArticleCount%, %ArticleIndex%, �teTime%, �te%, and %Time%
  • TAForWord 3.0.32 and TAForOutlook 3.0.28 - Fixes to help with occasional problems leading to toolbar disabled.
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.42 - Support for Firefox 25
  • Other miscellaneous fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.58 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.41 - Support for Firefox 24
  • TAForIE 3.0.17 - Support for IE Enhanced Protected Mode, enabled by default in Windows 8.1 / IE 11
  • Miscellaneous fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.57 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • Improved screenreader compatibility for Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance dialog
  • Fixed problem with occasionally losing toolbar customizations
  • Fixed problem with Word document import failing if document is already open in MS Word
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.40 - Support for Firefox 23

New in TextAloud 3.0.56 (May 23, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.55 (Apr 25, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.54 (Feb 28, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.52 (Jan 12, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.51 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • ForFirefox 3.0.33 - Fix to run on Windows XP with Firefox 17

New in TextAloud 3.0.49 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Fixed access violation related to certain hotkey definitions
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.48 (Oct 16, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.47 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • New dictionary format function ##Sum()
  • Fix for occasional problem with Word toolbar buttons
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.46 (Aug 31, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.45 (Aug 16, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.44 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.26 - Support for Firefox 15
  • Minor fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.43 (Jul 6, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.42 (Jun 11, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.41 (May 18, 2012)

  • Improve performance for large pronunciation dictionaries

New in TextAloud 3.0.40 (May 2, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.39 (Apr 10, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.38 (Apr 10, 2012)

  • Fixes for pronunciation dictionary name validation
  • Minor updates for Windows 8
  • TAForFirefox 3.0.21 - Support for Firefox 12
  • Other minor fixes

New in TextAloud 3.0.37 (Feb 13, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.35 (Feb 13, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.34 (Dec 9, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.33 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • TAForFirefox 3.0.16 - Support for Firefox 9
  • Fixed problem with importing some epub documents
  • Updated regular expression engine

New in TextAloud 3.0.32 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • Fix audio quality for L&H Michael / Michelle voices
  • Added option to display article line numbers under View menu

New in TextAloud 3.0.31 (Oct 21, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.30 (Oct 4, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.29 (Aug 31, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.28 (Aug 22, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.27 (Jul 28, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.26 (Jul 28, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.24 (Jul 28, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.23 (Jun 25, 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.

New in TextAloud 3.0.22 (Jun 25, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.21 (Jun 25, 2011)

  • Fixed Undo/Redo icons, they were reversed.
  • Fixed problem with minimizing main window
  • Update to support Sapi5 Context tag

New in TextAloud 3.0.20 (Jun 25, 2011)

  • Fixed some problems related to the 3.0.19 update.

New in TextAloud 3.0.19 (Jun 25, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.18 (Jun 25, 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’.

New in TextAloud 3.0.17 (Apr 1, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.16 (Mar 22, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.15 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.14 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.13 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.12 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.10 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.9 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.8 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.7 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.5 (Mar 7, 2011)

  • Fix for intermittent problems with loading Acapela voices

New in TextAloud 3.0.4 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.3 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 3.0.2 (Mar 7, 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.

New in TextAloud 3.0.1 (Mar 7, 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

New in TextAloud 2.321 (Jan 20, 2010)

  • Fix for exception caused by automatic upgrade protection

New in TextAloud 2.319 (Dec 16, 2009)

  • New voice support, Windows 7 support, New Firefox plugin

New in TextAloud 2.318 (Dec 12, 2009)

  • Minor fixes, update to automatic update checking, support for some new Acapela voices

New in TextAloud 2.313 (Jul 28, 2009)

  • Have just released new Nuance RealSpeak voices

New in TextAloud 2.303 (Jan 28, 2009)

  • Minor release with several small bug fixes.

New in TextAloud 2.255 (Jul 25, 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.

New in TextAloud 2.210 (Oct 4, 2006)

  • Improvements in reading Word .doc files

New in TextAloud 2.195 (Sep 2, 2006)

  • Minor bug fixes. Improved IE TTS Toolbar

New in TextAloud 2.193 (Jul 1, 2006)

  • Firefox fixes
  • New sapi5 tts voices

New in TextAloud 2.185 (May 31, 2006)

  • New voices from Acapela, ScanSoft RealSpeak. Firefox fixes