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Speech Central Changelog

What's new in Speech Central 15.1.0

Apr 26, 2024
  • Word highlighter for Microsoft AI voices
  • OpenAI HD models

New in Speech Central 15.0.0 (Apr 22, 2024)

  • OpenAI added as a voice provider

New in Speech Central 14.8.8 (Apr 11, 2024)

  • Import folder (easy transition from Voice Dream!)

New in Speech Central 14.7.1 (Mar 28, 2024)

  • Reverting one 3rd party package update that caused stability problems in some cases.

New in Speech Central 14.7.0 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • Md file format support

New in Speech Central 14.6.0 (Mar 17, 2024)

  • Continue Play widget

New in Speech Central 14.5.9 (Mar 8, 2024)

  • .webarchive and .mht file support added

New in Speech Central 14.5.8 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • Huge performance update, nearly instant loading and smooth work of documents of unlimited length including on Apple Watch.

New in Speech Central 14.5.6 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • Visual and performance improvements

New in Speech Central 14.5.0 (Feb 27, 2024)

  • All controls respect custom user accent color set in the system

New in Speech Central 14.4.4 (Feb 25, 2024)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Speech Central 14.4.0 (Feb 19, 2024)

  • Inspirational feeds in Popular Headlines
  • Button to download linked next articles to the current web page

New in Speech Central 14.3.97 (Feb 18, 2024)

  • Email files (.eml) import

New in Speech Central 14.3.8 (Feb 14, 2024)

  • Dozen of smaller improvements

New in Speech Central 14.3.6 (Feb 11, 2024)

  • Automatic sleep timer in Nigt Mode

New in Speech Central 14.3.4 (Feb 8, 2024)

  • Performance improvements

New in Speech Central 14.2.8 (Feb 6, 2024)

  • Option to set the default language for new items

New in Speech Central 14.2.4 (Feb 2, 2024)

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes

New in Speech Central 14.2.3 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • The full text edit option is back, paragraph editing is still preferred and more safe option

New in Speech Central 14.1.9 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Performance improvements

New in Speech Central 14.1.4 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Performance improvements

New in Speech Central 14.1 (Jan 25, 2024)

  • Undo now shows the name of the action.
  • Further (and likely final) stability updates

New in Speech Central 14.02 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • The option to add languages in the voice picker

New in Speech Central 14.0.1 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Performance improvements for very large documents

New in Speech Central 14.0 (Jan 21, 2024)

  • The biggest update to any text-to-speech app ever! Completely rewritten from scratch with over 1000 improvements.
  • New engine that controls voices and adds emotion and variations to the reading with up to 4x speeds
  • Support for Microsoft AI voices
  • Multiwindow/multidocument support
  • Images in the reading window
  • Instant mode for quick and simple reading
  • Improved accessibility
  • Improved sync - more comprehensive, robust and performant
  • Numerous new settings options

New in Speech Central 13.2 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • Small improvements

New in Speech Central 13.1.4 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • Improved translations in some localisations

New in Speech Central 13.1.3 (Feb 7, 2023)

  • Improvements in syncing

New in Speech Central 13.1.2 (Dec 4, 2022)

  • Simplified language settings

New in Speech Central 13.1.1 (Nov 10, 2022)

  • Many stability improvements for rare crashes.

New in Speech Central 13.0.3 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • Small improvements

New in Speech Central 13.0.2 (Oct 13, 2022)

  • Double click the voice to select it

New in Speech Central 13.0 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • New voice picker:
  • Visual indicators for voice characteristics
  • Ability to select multiple voices
  • Filter voices by gender and quality

New in Speech Central 12.78 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • The start of the effort to minimise the energy use in the app to support green economy and our societies in time of energy crisis.

New in Speech Central 12.77 (Sep 8, 2022)

  • Skip forward and backward buttons available (as part of the Player toolbar customisation)

New in Speech Central 12.71 (Aug 26, 2022)

  • Grey sentence highlighter style

New in Speech Central 12.68 (Aug 2, 2022)

  • Small improvements

New in Speech Central 12.67 (Jul 19, 2022)

  • Voice preview in Preferences for speed, volume and pitch
  • Visual preview for sentence highlighter

New in Speech Central 12.61 (Jun 30, 2022)

  • Bug fixes and smaller improvements

New in Speech Central 12.60 (Jun 26, 2022)

  • Bigger font sizes allowed
  • New localizations

New in Speech Central 12.55 (Jun 14, 2022)

  • Bookmark and Comment toolbar icons

New in Speech Central 12.50 (Jun 1, 2022)

  • Option to skip in-text citations

New in Speech Central 12.46 (May 27, 2022)

  • Bug fixes

New in Speech Central 12.45 (May 25, 2022)

  • Find previous/next keyboard shortcuts

New in Speech Central 12.4 (May 13, 2022)

  • Speed indicator labels

New in Speech Central 12.3.5 (May 6, 2022)

  • Indicator for Now Playing item on the list.

New in Speech Central 12.3 (Apr 17, 2022)

  • Search field in the Navigation sidebar

New in Speech Central 12.2 (Mar 29, 2022)

  • Smart footnotes detection in PDF files

New in Speech Central 12.1 (Mar 18, 2022)

  • Option to sync Pocket to the folder

New in Speech Central 12.0 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • New customizable themes

New in Speech Central 11.7 (Mar 7, 2022)

  • Visual improvements

New in Speech Central 11.6 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • Siri Shortcuts
  • Sync indicator

New in Speech Central 11.5.1 (Feb 16, 2022)

  • Fix for the crash when opening player on old versions of macOS

New in Speech Central 11.5 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • Extracting, displaying and filtering author text for books
  • Option to disable auto-scrolling

New in Speech Central 11.4.5 (Feb 10, 2022)

  • QuickNote support
  • Handoff continue activity between iOS to macOS (requires latest versions of both apps)
  • Fixed problem with epub chapters

New in Speech Central 11.4 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • Setting to turn off highlighter

New in Speech Central 11.3 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Options preview in the Preferences window

New in Speech Central 11.2 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • Setting to hide read or unread text.

New in Speech Central 11.1 (Dec 29, 2021)

  • Access recent positions in text from the Sidebar

New in Speech Central 11.00 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • Items can be organized in folders

New in Speech Central 10.93 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • Bug fixes

New in Speech Central 10.92 (Sep 26, 2021)

  • Languages are displayed in the natural language instead of with abbreviations.

New in Speech Central 10.90 (Sep 19, 2021)

  • Korean, Dutch and Arabic localization

New in Speech Central 10.70 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • Character spacing setting

New in Speech Central 10.68 (Aug 29, 2021)

  • Bug fix

New in Speech Central 10.67 (Aug 26, 2021)

  • Thumbnails for .pdf and .epub files
  • Taller rows for longer items
  • Previous and next page navigation commands

New in Speech Central 10.60 (Aug 6, 2021)

  • Viewing the original PDF pages

New in Speech Central 10.50 (Jul 18, 2021)

  • Big Sur style search button

New in Speech Central 10.18 (Jun 9, 2021)

  • Bookshare option is displayed for English speaking users with VoiceOver enabled

New in Speech Central 10.15 (May 28, 2021)

  • Japanese, Portuguese and Italian localization

New in Speech Central 10.10 (May 13, 2021)

  • Sleep Timer
  • Repeat Mode
  • Remember if sidebar was opened

New in Speech Central 9.25 (Apr 30, 2021)

  • Sidebar toggle button in player

New in Speech Central 9.20 (Apr 11, 2021)

  • Chinese localization added
  • Better navigation for imported files

New in Speech Central 9.17 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • New Big Sur like 3D style icon
  • Significantly improved text extraction for web pages, drastic improvements for non-English (especially Asian) languages

New in Speech Central 9.01 (Mar 21, 2021)

  • Fixed crash on devices that run older macOS (High Sierra and Mojave)

New in Speech Central 9.0 (Mar 17, 2021)

  • Visual style completely inline with Big Sur
  • Spanish, French and German localizations
  • Ability to pick more search engines

New in Speech Central 8.3 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • Big Sur style icons
  • Sentence highlight customization
  • New 'Paste and Read' command
  • New Restore Default Speed command in the menu
  • Pocket was moved from the menu to Preferences > Articles & Books

New in Speech Central 8.02 (Sep 3, 2020)

  • Translucency in all sidebars

New in Speech Central 8.01 (Aug 2, 2020)

  • Renamed several option titles for better clarity

New in Speech Central 8.00 (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Support for .webarchive file format
  • Log in to the web site to access web sites that require account/subscription
  • Keeping the text format on text edit

New in Speech Central 7.94 (Jul 7, 2020)

  • Line height added to Preferences

New in Speech Central 7.93 (Jun 28, 2020)

  • New button to quickly change between Standard/High speed
  • Settings for Standard/High speed with sliders in preferences

New in Speech Central 7.92 (Jun 11, 2020)

  • Fixing the pitch for voices that use non-standard scale
  • Icon improvements

New in Speech Central 7.91 (Jun 11, 2020)

  • Pitch and volume settings turned to a slider

New in Speech Central 7.90 (Jun 3, 2020)

  • New option for sepia color scheme
  • More font sizes options
  • More font options

New in Speech Central 7.86 (May 26, 2020)

  • visual improvements
  • option to justify text
  • significant reduction in the app size

New in Speech Central 7.80 (Apr 23, 2020)

  • New window to create audio files replaces main window page bringing both more power and simplicity
  • New menu item to keep player window on top
  • The app can register as the default browser and open links directly from other apps like Mail

New in Speech Central 7.60 (Mar 1, 2020)

  • Option to move articles to 'Old' after being read (this was always on previously)
  • Support for .mhtml/.mht file formats
  • Changes in design

New in Speech Central 7.54 (Jan 12, 2020)

  • Using the functions provided in the macOS High Sierra for higher performance and reliability. From this version to receive the new features/updates user needs High Sierra or newer version of the macOS.

New in Speech Central 7.53 (Dec 30, 2019)

  • Improved responsiveness

New in Speech Central 7.5.2 (Dec 11, 2019)

  • Bug fixes

New in Speech Central 7.5.1 (Dec 6, 2019)

  • Title removed from the main window
  • Due to the bug in macOS Catalina the pause command was not reliable. A workaround is implemented to fix this problem.

New in Speech Central 7.5 (Dec 3, 2019)

  • New setting to disable screen lock while playing the content
  • Better accessibility of the Preferences window

New in Speech Central 7.40 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Support for activation with the macOS Services

New in Speech Central 7.30 (Nov 15, 2019)

  • user interface polishes to adhere to the latest Apple standard

New in Speech Central 7.25 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • The sync across Apple devices feature should now work for all users when enabled.

New in Speech Central 5.40 (Sep 6, 2019)

  • Improved share extension (accepts files, captures the page content from Safari)
  • OPDS feed support in Headlines
  • Multiple new settings in Preferences > Speech

New in Speech Central 5.30 (Aug 14, 2019)

  • Auto-scroll preferences
  • Pausing the reproduction when the row is scrolled out of view

New in Speech Central 5.21 (Jun 28, 2019)

  • Share extension checked back

New in Speech Central 5.2 (Jun 4, 2019)

  • Export items (including comments and bookmarks) to the Microsoft Word (.docx) format

New in Speech Central 5.1 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Option to add new items in Articles & Books to: Top, Bottom, Long items to Top, short to Bottom

New in Speech Central 5.0 (Apr 16, 2019)

  • View > 'Sort By' menu

New in Speech Central 1.57 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • Cancel Pending Operations menu command

New in Speech Central 1.56 (Mar 26, 2019)

  • Fixes for some bugs on the older versions of macOS and some backend improvements that will lead to importing of some specific contents that previous version failed to import.

New in Speech Central 1.55 (Mar 3, 2019)

  • Importing comments and bookmarks from docx (Microsoft Word) files

New in Speech Central 1.54 (Feb 28, 2019)

  • Support for the remote audio controls (e.g. on the iPhone headphones before iPhone 7, Bluetooth headphones, keyboards with multimedia buttons, Touch Bar)

New in Speech Central 1.53 (Feb 4, 2019)

  • Edit/Copy is changed to copy the current sentence.
  • New option Edit/Copy Current Paragraph to copy the current paragraph

New in Speech Central 1.51 (Jan 13, 2019)

  • Click on the title of the item to edit it
  • Swipe left over the items or paragraphs or right with two fingers on the trackpad to perform actions

New in Speech Central 1.50 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • Share link from Safari, Chrome or other browsers and app into Speech Central

New in Speech Central 1.49 (Dec 7, 2018)

  • Showing progress when creating the audio file

New in Speech Central 1.48 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Sync Articles & Books with Pocket My List

New in Speech Central 1.47 (Nov 19, 2018)

  • Double click to play the item

New in Speech Central 1.46 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • More precise messages for some possible errors

New in Speech Central 1.45 (Oct 21, 2018)

  • On macOS Mojave the app now mixes its own methods for the language detection (slower, less languages but more precise) with system built-in tools (faster, more languages but less precise) for optimal results.

New in Speech Central 1.44 (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Some problems in the latest version on Sierra and High Sierra fixed

New in Speech Central 1.43 (Oct 14, 2018)

  • Better support the dark mode including the new color scheme that respects the system settings for the dark/light mode
  • Using of macOS Mojave AI to detect more languages with better performance and greater precision

New in Speech Central 1.40.0 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Project Gutenberg online library integrated

New in Speech Central 1.37.0 (Aug 28, 2018)

  • Bug fixes.

New in Speech Central 1.36.0 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • New backend common with iOS app.

New in Speech Central 1.31.0 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • Items imported in this version are added to the Mac Spotlight Search
  • Quicker startup

New in Speech Central 1.30.0 (Apr 7, 2018)

  • Find panel.

New in Speech Central 1.22.0 (Mar 30, 2018)

  • The bug that affected a very small portion of users that caused the app to crash on every document should be fixed.

New in Speech Central 1.21.0 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Performance improvements.

New in Speech Central 1.20.0 (Feb 22, 2018)

  • The app is not completely closed when the last window is closed.

New in Speech Central 1.19.0 (Feb 19, 2018)

  • Better detection of the repetitive text in headers and footers in PDF.

New in Speech Central 1.18.0 (Feb 12, 2018)

  • Bug fixes.

New in Speech Central 1.17.0 (Jan 9, 2018)

  • Command to spell the current sentence.

New in Speech Central 1.16.0 (Dec 5, 2017)

  • Enter key to activate reading of the selected paragraph.
  • Animations.

New in Speech Central 1.15.0 (Nov 4, 2017)

  • Customizable highlight color.

New in Speech Central 1.14.0 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Support for RTF file format

New in Speech Central 1.13.0 (Oct 3, 2017)

  • Tool-tips in the toolbar.

New in Speech Central 1.12.0 (Sep 19, 2017)

  • Comments tool.

New in Speech Central 1.11.1 (Sep 12, 2017)

  • import of password protected PDFs
  • import of chapter titles for EPUB
  • improved PDF text import (skipping of page header and footer text)

New in Speech Central 1.10.3 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • Set preferred voice in the Preferences.

New in Speech Central 1.10.2 (Aug 22, 2017)

  • Preferences button in the player window
  • For newly imported files the app can perform commands Original (open it in the default app) and Share (e.g. send it as an attachment in the Mail)

New in Speech Central 1.9.0 (Aug 16, 2017)

  • New Preferences window
  • New setting to customize previous and next button behavior
  • New setting to set speech speed for audio files
  • 3x speed added

New in Speech Central 1.8.0 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Number of articles left indicated in the Articles & Books section
  • Popular and Latest book lists added for Bookshare

New in Speech Central 1.7.0 (Jul 31, 2017)

  • Bookshare service integration.

New in Speech Central 1.6.0 (Jul 18, 2017)

  • Sentence and word highlighters
  • Color scheme picker in Preferences
  • Open in browser in Headlines context menu

New in Speech Central 1.5.0 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • New items in the dock menu to control the app when it is in the background

New in Speech Central 1.4.0 (Jul 5, 2017)

  • set font in preferences
  • dyslexia friendly font included in the app

New in Speech Central 1.3.6 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Daisy 3 books support
  • Dock menu commands