## All
+ 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][1].
### Pied
+ The extension now creates a link to `.onnx` voice model binaries installed
using [Pied][2] when the file passes a test that compares the [`md5_sum`][3] 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][4].
* The document that shows in the *About* dialog when using the [Python Piper
Script][5] includes specific information for installing Pied on enterprise
Linux distributions like [Alma][6], [CentOS][7], [Oracle][8], [Red Hat][9]
and [Rocky][10] and for using Pied with a [Flatpak][11] on compatible
Linux systems.
[1]: https://discourse.appimage.org/
[2]: https://pied.mikeasoft.com
[3]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashlib.html
[4]: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
[5]: https://github.com/jimholgate/readtextextension/blob/master/Read_Text/py...
[6]: https://almalinux.org
[7]: https://www.centos.org
[8]: https://www.oracle.com/linux/
[9]: https://www.redhat.com/
[10]: https://rockylinux.org
[11]: https://flatpak.org