Read Text-0.8.81

Extension:
Extension ID:
ca.bc.vancouver.holgate.james.readtextextension
Release date:
21/07/2024 - 20:01
Version:
0.8.81
Operating system:
Linux, Linux x86-64, MacOS X, System Independent, Windows
Compatibility:
4.1
Binary type:
OpenOffice extension (.oxt)
Release Notes: 

All
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* Updated the pronunciation editor dialog and help.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.
* Language and internationalization improvements.
* Update the [URL][1] for creating a QR Code online.s

Linux
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* The first run of the extension on a Wine client does not display an extension settings dialogue.
* Handle a [Mimic3][2] timeout when a voice model has unexpectedly high latency or the Mimic3 server is not running.
* If the python [`spacy`][3] 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][4] runtime error after an application crash.

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

Windows
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* Handle a potential [Piper TTS][5] runtime error after an application crash.

[1]: https://quickchart.io/qr?size=300&text=https://github.com/Elleo/pied
[2]: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3
[3]: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
[4]: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
[5]: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper