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Improves python handling of soft links.
Uses a consistent locally installed test sound.
Linux
AppImage Sound Test
The extension now plays a sound file included with the extension when you tap the Test button in the About dialog. This means that the button works when you use a Linux AppImage.
Pied
The extension now creates a link to .onnx voice model binaries installed using Pied when the file passes a test that compares the md5_sum of the Pied version to the md5_sum of a current release of the .onnx model. A file can fail the test if the download was incomplete or the file was modified. In most cases, this means that setting up Piper text to speech in concert with Pied is easier and faster than ever. In the event that the file fails the test, the extension will download the current version.
When you install Pied, the pop up notification shows a link to information about the Pied application instead of to the Piper samples web page.
The document that shows in the About dialog when using the Python Piper Script includes specific information for installing Pied on enterprise Linux distributions like Alma, CentOS, Oracle, Red Hat and Rocky and for using Pied with a Flatpak on compatible Linux systems.
read_text_2024.09.03_12.37a.oxt
Version 0.8.85
Works with Apache OpenOffice 4.1
read_text_2024.09.03_12.37.oxt
Version 0.8.84
Works with LibreOffice 7+ and OpenOffice.org 3.4
Alma Linux can use Read Text Extension with the built-in Speech Dispatcher. If you want to install a high quality Piper Voice Model, Pied makes it easy. When you use the "--update True" option in the Read Text extension main menu without specifying a particular voice, the extension creates a menu structure in a local directory that includes a complete catalog of voices currently available at the Piper voice model download site and links any models that you have installed with Pied.
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