What's new in Read4Me 1.6.15
Jul 16, 2015
New in Read4Me 1.6.14 (Jun 27, 2013)
New in Read4Me 1.6.13 (May 8, 2013)
- Fixes for German localization
- Minor bug fixes
New in Read4Me 1.6.12 (Feb 23, 2013)
New in Read4Me 1.6.11 (Jan 30, 2013)
- Fix for crashing bugs on Snow Leopard.
New in Read4Me 1.6.10 (Jan 18, 2013)
- Bug fix for dialog/highlight toggle. Highlight works best on OS X Mountain Lion with updated Nuance Voices. The voice Alex works best on Snow Leopard.
- Toolbar icons now in grey-scale.
New in Read4Me 1.6.9 (Jan 10, 2013)
- Support for unencrypted ePub files
- Accessibility improvements
- Bug fixes
New in Read4Me 1.6.8 (Oct 31, 2012)
- Help is available in English.
New in Read4Me 1.6.7 (Sep 18, 2012)
- To highlight the spoken text with any updated voice of OS X Mountain Lion, deselect 'Dialog' in the Voices panel.
- Fixed an issue exporting a long text file to AudioBook.
- Maximum speech rate increased to 600 words per minute.
- Minor Bugfixes.
New in Read4Me 1.6.6 (Jul 27, 2012)
- compiled for OS X Mountain Lion
- minimal version OS X Snow Leopard
New in Read4Me 1.6.5 (Jun 27, 2012)
- Voices for Chinese languages can be used.
- Fixes for bugs in the voices panel
- Implemented Sandboxing
- Removed scripts in the Help menu
New in Read4Me 1.6.4 (May 9, 2012)
- Improved the accessibility labeling for the Voice Coach panel.
New in Read4Me 1.6.3 (Mar 23, 2012)
- Truncation in saving multi-voice audio has been fixed.
- Reading after save has been fixed.
- Opening text files has been improved.
New in Read4Me 1.6.2 (Feb 22, 2012)
- Save text with multi-voice dialog as audio file or AudioBook.
- Double-click a voice in the panel to insert a voice change tag.
- Adjust speech rate from the menu shortcuts.
- Bug fixes for Starting and Stopping quickly.
- Voice Coach tags can be removed.
New in Read4Me 1.6.1 (Feb 9, 2012)
- Text Color support
- Fullscreen improvement
- Bug fixes
New in Read4Me 1.6.0 (Feb 7, 2012)
- Support for Lion Sandboxing
- Full screen support
New in Read4Me 1.5.3 (Jan 5, 2012)
New in Read4Me 1.5.2 (Dec 21, 2011)
New in Read4Me 1.5.1 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Dialog mode works better with Voice Coach.
- In dialog mode the speed can be adjusted more often during reading.
- A problem with greek text in dialog mode has been fixed.
New in Read4Me 1.5.0 (Dec 9, 2011)
- New feature: Dialog mode, voice changes when the name of the voice appears in the text (only when written in uppercase). The name of the voice currently speaking is shown in the window footer.
- In single voice mode, spoken text is now highlighted, however only with supporting voices (Alex and older Apple voices).
New in Read4Me 1.4.7 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Added localization for Scandinavian languages.
- Improved the assistance for installing international voices.
- Fixed a bug in the Voices panel.
New in Read4Me 1.4.6 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Added Portuguese localization.
- The Voices panel is now resizable.
- To fix some editing problems the syntax coloring of Coach tags has been removed.
- Several small interface bugs were solved
New in Read4Me 1.4.5 (Nov 3, 2011)
- The speech rate can be fine-tuned with numerical input.
New in Read4Me 1.4.4 (Oct 25, 2011)
- Exported audio files can be listened to using Read4me.
- Styled text can now be saved as Web Page (.html) or simple Word Document (.doc), and Rich Text (.rtf).
- Improved help with downloading international voices.
- Fixed a problem in the localization of the Services menu. (The Services menu can be used to have selected text read for you within other applications)
New in Read4Me 1.4.3 (Sep 16, 2011)
- Reading time estimate is displayed under the text.
- Your preferred voice is saved.
- A bug was fixed in the word count.
New in Read4Me 1.4.2 (Aug 31, 2011)
- Added assistance in the Help menu for downloading high quality international voices (Lion only). OS X Lion supports speech in 27 languages and also English dialects such as British, Irish and Scottish. Downloadable are high quality voices for Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
- Added assistance in the Help menu for ordering of languages
- Voices are reloaded and ordered when activating Read4me, for instance after changes in Language and Speech preferences.
New in Read4Me 1.4.1 (Jul 20, 2011)
- VoiceCoach: Small changes for OS X Lion.
- Voices Panel: OS X Lion allows downloading voices that speak 23 languages, the Voices Panel shows additional language information and groups voices by your languages preferences.
New in Read4Me 1.4 (Jun 17, 2011)
New in Read4Me 1.3.2 (May 14, 2011)
- Bug fixes:
- 'Voices' panel is accessible from the toolbar.
- Fixed saving speech rate preference.
- Fixed ruler display issue in German version.
- Reduced width of the default toolbar.
New in Read4Me 1.3 (May 6, 2011)
- Exports to AudioBook that you can sync to iPod with iTunes so you can listen to the text while on the road.
- Voice Coach panel allows precise control over the voice synthesis.
- Read the whole file, or select text to read
- Bugfixes
New in Read4Me 1.2.6 (Apr 11, 2011)
- Localized in multiple languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. Regional accents and voices for other languages require additional software available from third parties, for more information check the website.
- Bug fixes.
New in Read4Me 1.2 (Mar 25, 2011)
- Read4me can now open more types of documents: Word, RTF, HTML and plain text. It can save to RTF and plain text. Read4me now reads selected text in other application using the "Services" menu. Reading speed can be changed during speech.
New in Read4Me 1.1 (Mar 8, 2011)
- While reading out loud the words spoken are highlighted to help young readers follow the text.