Read Text 0.8.82

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Updated lexicons.
When using localhost or local network speech tools, the extension strips non-printing characters to increase efficiency and to avoid unexpected vocalizations with some neural voice models.

Piper is a fast, local neural text-to-speech system that sounds great. VLC is a free cross platform streaming media player.

Piper is a neural text-to-speech system that you can install on computers with compatible processors. You can choose from many languages and voice models.
When using a compatible release in Windows, the Piper text-to-speech python client now plays the selected text aloud without showing a command line window or a VLC player window by default. It now works the same as a Posix operating system does.
You can show python information in a command line window in Windows using --update False or --update True in the command line options field of the main extension dialog.
You can make a VLC player window visible by including a non-zero value while using the --player option. For example, you could change --player 0 to --player 7 in the command line options field to enable a graphical sound display.

Some Linux platforms use specific library directories for different processor architectures. The extension now checks the gstreamer directories for officially supported architectures using Debian 12 naming conventions.

spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython.

On supported platforms, spaCy can intelligently divide long text strings into sentences. This helps online speech synthesis platforms return results faster.
The extension uses an improved fallback method to divide long text strings into sentences if spacy does not work. See https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/13550.

Version 0.8.83

Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1

Version 0.8.82

Works with LibreOffice 7 and OpenOffice.org 3.4

LibreOffice Read Text Extension 0.8.82 Dialogs - LibreOffice Version: 24.2.5.2 (Microsoft Windows)

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