Read Text 0.8.76
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All
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+ Bug fixes, documentation and performance improvements.
+ Spanish help on supported platforms.
+ Images of Dialogues in Help on supported platforms.
+ When you enable *Use Experimental Mode* in your Office program, the settings are saved in a different file.
+ **Note**: To accommodate the improved settings behaviour, when you update this extension, or the version of Office, the settings will revert to their defaults.
Linux
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+ **AppImage** application settings are saved in a different file than when you are using the standard application.
+ **Snap** support for [**Mimic3**][1].
+ **Flatpak** support for [**PiperTTS**][2] and **Mimic3**.
+ **Note**: On supported architectures and platforms, the [**Pied**][3] application from the Snap or Flatpak App Store is an easy way to install and manage high fidelity **PiperTTS** voices on your local desktop. You can listen to samples of Piper voice models using the online [Piper samples][4] page.
### About Pied
[Pied][5] is a program for Linux distributions. When you first start the Pied program, it allows you to download the Piper speech synthesis program and compatible voice models. You can use Pied to choose the voice model that accessible programs like [Firefox][6] and [Thorium ePub reader][7] use to read text aloud. If a client program does not support selecting a particular voice from a voice model that includes several voices, then the program uses the first available voice.
If Pied has downloaded a voice model in a different language, but you have not set it as the default voice, Read extension can use that voice instead of the default voice using
`"(PIPER_READ_TEXT_PY)" --language "(SELECTION_LANGUAGE_COUNTRY_CODE)" "(TMP)"` in the command line options field.
[1]: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3?tab=readme-ov-file#mimic-3
[2]: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper#voices
[3]: https://github.com/Elleo/pied?tab=readme-ov-file#pied
[4]: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
[5]: https://github.com/Elleo/pied?tab=readme-ov-file#pied
[6]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
[7]: https://thorium.edrlab.org