Read Text 0.8.80

All

• Updated the pronunciation editor dialog and help.

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Language and internationalization improvements.

• Update the URL for creating a QR Code online.

Linux

• The first run of the extension on a Wine client does not display an extension settings dialogue.

• Handle a Mimic3 timeout when a voice model has unexpectedly high latency or the Mimic3 server is not running.

• If the python spacy text analysis library is not available, then use sentence punctuation marks to divide long texts into a list so that networked text to speech works faster with long strings.

• Handle a potential Piper TTS runtime error after an application crash.

MacOS

• Use MacOS custom python text to speech string replacements whether the application advanced experimental mode is enabled or not.

Windows

• Handle a potential Piper TTS runtime error after an application crash.

read_text_2024.07.21_16.39a.oxt

Version 0.8.81

Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1

read_text_2024.07.21_16.39.oxt

Version 0.8.80

Works with LibreOffice 7 and OpenOffice.org 3.4