System Independent

Read Text-0.8.89

## 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

Read Text-0.8.88

## 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

Read Text-0.8.87

## 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

Read Text-0.8.86

## 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