System Independent

First Version of WritingTool
Successor of the LanguageTool extension.
Based on LanguageTool 6.5

## All

+ Update the default English, French, German, Italian and Spanish lexicons to
improve how untested speech models say common abbreviations.
+ Update the *About* text for [Piper][1] text-to-speech.
+ Fix the *About* Dialog failing to appear on a recent release that does not
work as expected with the `python3-scriptforge` package.
+ Remove orphan code.

## Linux

## All

+ Update the default English, French, German, Italian and Spanish lexicons to
improve how untested speech models say common abbreviations.
+ Update the *About* text for [Piper][1] text-to-speech.
+ Fix the *About* Dialog failing to appear on a recent release that does not
work as expected with the `python3-scriptforge` package.
+ Remove orphan code.

## Linux

## 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

## 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

## All

+ Enables playback on a wider variety of architectures and platforms.
+ The *Test* button plays a background sound if the application has system
permission using the BASIC `uno` platform, otherwise it is disabled.

## Windows

## All

+ Enables playback on a wider variety of architectures and platforms.
+ The *Test* button plays a background sound if the application has system
permission using the BASIC `uno` platform, otherwise it is disabled.

## Windows

Read Text 0.8.82
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All
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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.

Windows
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### Piper + VLC Client

[Piper][1] is a fast, local neural text-to-speech system that sounds great.
[VLC][2] is a free cross platform streaming media player.

Read Text 0.8.82
==================

All
---

- 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.

Windows
-------

### Piper + VLC Client

[Piper][1] is a fast, local neural text-to-speech system that sounds great.
[VLC][2] is a free cross platform streaming media player.