Read Text 0.8.62
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Updates for MacOS 13.0.1 and Debian Linux 11.5 plus documentation updates and bug fixes
Windows
Clicking multiple times quickly on the main button on a legacy Windows system will not cause the application to open the Basic editor with an error message because of a request to delete a lock file that no longer exists.
MacOS
MacOS 13 (Ventura) includes many new multilingual voices. Now, if you use /usr/bin/python3 as the application in the main extension dialog, you can select different voice profiles like “male2” or “female1” that select a male or female profile for every language that has both male and female voices.
On MacOS, python checks if Fiona and Lee are actually installed before allowing them as a voice option. These two voices appear in the say -v '?' response, but they are not installed by default in all regions.
Linux
Support the larynx-server speech synthesis platform.
Since the larynx-server Application Programming Interface (API) uses the http network protocol, supported snap and flatpak versions of office software that block speech-dispatcher can now use high quality speech synthesis with Read Text Extension.
The larynx package includes many high quality voices. You can manage languages and voices using a web browser pointed to a locally hosted web page.
Supported languages include Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Swahili.
On Debian 11.5 compatible Linux platforms, you can use cinnamon-settings startup, gnome-session-properties or another similar application to set up larynx-server to automatically start up after 10-15 seconds when you log in. For testing purposes, you can also start the server by entering the larynx-servercommand in a terminal window.
read_text_2022.11.30_08.22a.oxt
Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1
read_text_2022.11.30_08.22.oxt
Works with LibreOffice 7 and OpenOffice.org 3.4
