Ver. 29.4.6
* New experimental feature - automatic voice changes when reading book or story dialogues. Enable and setup on the expanded bottom control panel.
* Added DeepL Translator to the available "Dictionaries"
Ver 29.3.3
* Added "Boldify" feature to show part of words in bold font, which helps read faster, at least for some people. Turn on/off under T+/- button on top - FONT tab
* Other stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 29.0.6
* Translate menu under circular arrows button has a new option to show bilingual text, each sentence in original and translated language, in different shades. The app will read with voices corresponding to each language. Useful when learning foreign languages.
* Voice changes instructions now work in the free version too.
* Improved export of reading list to EPUB, original PDF view and more.
Ver. 29.0.5
* Translate menu under circular arrows button has a new option to show bilingual text, each sentence in original and translated language, in different shades. The app will read with voices corresponding to each language. Useful when learning foreign languages.
* Voice changes instructions now work in the free version too.
* Improved export of reading list to EPUB, original PDF view and more.
Ver. 29.0.2
* Translate menu under circular arrows button has a new option to show bilingual text, each sentence in original and translated language, in different shades. The app will read with voices corresponding to each language. Useful when learning foreign languages.
* Voice changes instructions now work in the free version too.
* Improved export of reading list to EPUB, original PDF view and more.
ver. 28.1.0
* Added WordWeb Audio to supported directories
* Fix inactive buttons on book details screen in horizontal orient.
* Fix inconsistencies in text search mode
* Fix disappearing translation widget, when "preserver original styles" was on
* Other usability and stability improvements
Ver. 27.9.5
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 27.9.0
* Added {{@#q}} annotation to silence some text passages, see more at https://hyperionics.com/atVoice/VoiceChanges.html. Note that voice changes annotations work only when you have @Voice premium license.
* Declared the banner ad at the bottom of @Voice screen as "not important for accessibility". Thus it will be ignored when navigating controls under TalkBack, making such navigation easier for visually impaired users.
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 27.6.9
* Small changes necessary to make the upcoming Android Auto plugin work
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 27.6.5
* Microsoft Azure online voices, which are multilingual (e.g. en-US-RyanMultilingualNeural or en-US-JennyMultilingualNeural) can now be selected for reading aloud texts in other languages, which these voices handle.
* Fix opening some FB2 ebooks.
Ver. 27.6.3
* Fix: when searching for text on the main reader screen, the icon for setting the text search options was too small and difficult to press.
Ver. 27.6.0
* Set custom increment for the speech rate slider, instead of default 0.05. Long press the round button at right of the Rate slider to change it.
* For the sleep timer, you may now type the value in minutes or hours (including decimal dot if needed, e.g. 2.5 min.). The old quick selection values are also available.
* Stability and usability fixes
Ver. 27.5.12
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 27.3.8
* Enabled network timeout user setting also when Google TTS network voice is selected.
* Option to show either aftricle titles, or file names on the reading list - set under menu - Edit list (or pencil icon, if visible)
* Fix to avoid downloading duplicates in reading list "Paste links" function
Ver. 27.2.3
* Text search now offers case sensitive and insensitive search, whole words only and RegEx options.
* Edit the "Original URL" after swiping down from the top row of buttons, and press Enter or the "go" button, to load a new article from the entered URL.
* The "Page Look" screen (T+/- icon) - FONT tab - "Font" selection box now offers all the fonts found in the Android system font folder, and option to load fonts from files.
* Stability and usability fixes.
Ver. 27.1.6
* Auto-detects Cloudflare security messages and loads with JavaScript enabled
* Stability and usability fixes.
Ver. 27.0.12
* Important stability and usability fixes.
Ver. 27.0.1
* New improved text editor - full screen editing of visible text or HTML source code.
* New reading list sorting option - "Unsorted or manual"
* Important stability and usability fixes.
Ver. 27.0.0
* New improved text editor - full screen editing of visible text or HTML source code.
* New reading list sorting option - "Unsorted or manual"
* Important stability and usability fixes.
Ver. 26.10.9
* Removed Roman number processing completely. It's impossible to know what really is a Roman number, and not e.g. an abbreviation or regular word.
* Stability and usability improvements
* Ver. 26.7.1
* Stability and usability improvements
* Ver. 26.6.6
* Stability and usability improvements
Ver. 26.5.1
* Fix: after the latest update of Google Translate app, the option to show translation in a popup window stopped working.
Ver. 26.4.5
* Better rendering of complex math equations, written with MathJax script
* Other quality improvements
Ver. 26.3.8
* Important stability and usability improvements.
Ver. 26.3.5
* Important stability and usability improvements.
Ver. 26.3.0
* Important stability and usability improvements.
Ver. 26.2.8
* Important stability and usability improvements.
Ver. 26.1.6
* Added Share button to the screen that appears when recording to sound file is finished.
* Important stability and usability improvements.
* Added Hungarian translation - thank you, Sancho!
Ver. 25.7.1
* Stability and quality improvements
Ver. 25.6.1
* Option to save pages added to reading list with the Share button as complete web archives, with all the images and other data, for offline reading.
* New search button added to the Bookmarks screen - search within bookmarks by text and/or color.
* Option to hide voice annotations from the text window - available under the Settings menu - Speech settings - READING tab
* Fix for voice changes getting out of order and crashing, when changing often between the local and cloud voices
Ver. 25.4.9
* Accepting user added security certificates for opening web articles
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 25.4.2
* Sleep timer improvements.
* OCR package updated to Tesseract 5.0.1, slightly faster and using less memory. Also added STOP button to OCR progress message, to stop the process but preserve the text.
* Fix for reading FB2 ebooks from Google Drive
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 25.3.8
* The "Sync between devices" screen now shows the current Google account used for syncing, and there is a button to change it.
* On Android 12 and higher you may place a sound file named ding.wav in .config directory of @Voice home folder, to replace the "ding" sound it makes between loading articles from the reading list.
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 25.3.1
* Added option to restart sleep timer when device shakes.
* Fix: press on a bookmark list did not work correctly, when some bookmarks were deleted
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 25.2.4
* Stability and performance improvemens.
Ver. 25.1.1
* OCR on battery is no longer supported for more than 2 pages. This was causing a lot of problems.
* Important stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 25.0.0
* Added reading progress and bookmarks synchronization between devices, through user's Google Drive. It may be turned on under the Settings menu.
Ver. 24.0.0
* Added reading progress synchronization between devices, through user's Google Drive. It may be turned on under the Settings menu.
Ver. 24.3.3
* Fixes some "Application Not Responding" (ANR) errors
Ver. 24.1.10
* Added Samsung Dictionary to dictionary selections. Works only on Samsung phones.
* Improved support for Android 12 on Samsung devices
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 24.1.3
* Reading list screen has now selection check-boxes for moving, copying or deleting articles in bulk
* Other stability improvements
Ver. 24.0.11
* Fix: full screen ads should not appear when a screen reader (TalkBack or other) is active
* Other stability improvements
Ver. 24.3.10
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 24.3.8
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 23.4.3
* Fixing word and sentence splitting for Chinese and other Asian punctation marks, also followed by closing double-quotation character.
* Fixing voice change annotations for some HTML files (or PDFs extracted to HTML format).
* Working around yet another bug in Google TTS network voices...
Ver. 23.4.1
* File browser and Open screen now go up all the way to root and then allow entering mnt folder. This is necessary e.g. under BlueStacks emulator to access folders shared with the host machine
* In "Custom colors" theme added an option to customize the word highlight
* Fixed some MHTML text import issues, for files exported to MHTML/MHT format from MS Office.
* Fixed opening of some FB2 ebooks
Ver. 23.15
* Fix premium license problem on a few devices
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 23.3.12
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 23.3.5
* Reading lists have now optional default folder, where their articles will be saved
* Fixes and improvement to Paste links function on the Reading List menu - will not stop on download in background, when JavaScript is needed for the web page, will notify of download progress and finish, and optionally let you cancel when downloading in background
* Improvements to PDF text import
Ver 23.2.3
* Implemented one of the most repeated requests - easily import multiple web links into @Voice reading list, for example for web novels and other contents. Provides also easy update, when new contents (chapters) are added. Look under the Reading List menu - Paste links.
* Important stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 23.1.5
* Added Amazon Polly and Microsoft Azure cloud voices support (paid services)
* Fix for opening MHTML files generated by MS Word
* Other small changes, stability and performance improvements
Ver. 23.1.1
* Added Amazon Polly and Microsoft Azure cloud voices support (paid services)
* Fix for opening MHTML files generated by MS Word
* Other small changes, stability and performance improvements
Ver. 23.0.8
* PREMIUM copy only: Added ability to switch voices, when reading aloud, with special annotations within the text. They can also change the language of the voice. Read more: https://hyperionics.com/atVoice/VoiceChanges.html
* Other small changes, stability and performance improvements
Ver. 22.9.1
* When editing speech replacements, added option to preview the sample text with all replacements applied.
* You may also view the text of current sentence as it is after applying all replacements - long press the sentence, then long press the magnifying glass icon.
* Added option to read aloud alt text for images (Settings - Share icons, text and reading lists...)
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 22.8.0
* Added option to keep SSML tags, under @Voice Settings - Share icons, text and reading lists. It's for advanced users who want to modify speech synthesis by embedding special instructions (SSML) into HTML code.
* Added Czech translation - thank you, Lucas!
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 22.7.4
* The default interface under the Open button to search for documents by type (BOOKS, PDF, DOC, HTML, TEXT) has now a search by file name, author, title etc. function - press magnifying glass icon on top
* On the BOOKS tab, if you press on book image next to each book title, a more detailed info and book cover are shown. Press on the text to open at once, as before.
Ver. 22.6.7
* Quality and performance improvements
Ver. 22.6.2
* Added "Reset progress" function to the Reading list menu
* Fix opening PDF files from the reading list
Ver. 22.5.8
* Improved reading with Google cloud voices - shorter pauses between paragraphs and more reliable connection
* Fix the problem with Open button sometimes closing instantly, opening the same file
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 22.5.3
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 22.5.1
* Auto-save reading progress every 1 minute, in case the app is killed
* Access to files in network library plugin under Android 11 fixed
* Fix: was not listing Chinese language selection for Google Cloud voices
* Other important quality and performance improvements
Ver. 22.4.10
* Correct handling of <pre> tags in web pages
* Handle MathJax (math equations) in web pages
* Other important quality and performance improvements
Ver. 22.4.5
* Fix for importing text from PDF files in Arabic
* Other important quality and performance improvements
Ver. 22.4.0
* When cropping a PDF for text extraction, long-press a region to change its type - Text, Image, or Exclude region. There is also a Delete option on this menu.
* HTML with images option is now available also when doing OCR on PDF files, but works only for manually defined "Image" regions.
* Add from Google Drive function on Reading List menu now supports CSV files with lists of links to import and add to the list.
Ver. 22.3.8
* "Explore by touch" (TalkBack) active over the entire text are of @Voice, when the app is not reading aloud - is now an option under the Settings menu - Accessibility. It is disabled by default, enable it there if needed, but on some devices it does not work correctly. Disable if it causes problems.
* Other usability, stability and performance improvements
Ver. 22.3.2
* Added change of app interface language, without changing the system language of the phone/tablet - see Settings menu - Language. Works only under Android 8 and higher.
* Added an extra button "Examine sentence using screen reader", when running with a screen reader (TalkBack or other). Use to read by words, examine spelling using screen reader gestures etc.
* Fix occasional error with translation language selection
Ver. 22.2.1
* Added option to show two pages (columns of text) per screen. Useful particularly in landscape mode, or e.g. on Galaxy Z Fold2 after unfolding screen.
* Added Simplified Chinese translation
* Many stability and performance improvements
Ver. 22.1.4
* Fix: PDF files from cloud storage (e.g. Google Drive) were not opening
Ver. 22.0.9
* Added Chinese (Traditional) user interface translation
* Added OCR (recognizing text from images) to PDF file opening options. Based on Tesseract 4.1.1 open source OCR package. Enable if straight text extraction from PDF does not yield good results. It is slow though and battery consuming, best use when connected to external power.
Ver. 22.0.9
* Added Chinese (Traditional) user interface translation
* A few rare crashes fixed
Ver. 22.0.5
* Added OCR (recognizing text from images) to PDF file opening options. Based on Tesseract 4.1.1 open source OCR package. Enable if straight text extraction from PDF does not yield good results. It is slow though and battery consuming, best use when connected to external power.
Ver. 22.0.6
* Added Chinese (Traditional) user interface translation
* A few rare crashes fixed
Ver. 22.0.5
* Added OCR (recognizing text from images) to PDF file opening options. Based on Tesseract 4.1.1 open source OCR package. Enable if straight text extraction from PDF does not yield good results. It is slow though and battery consuming, best use when connected to external power.
Ver. 21.0.36
* Fix: Share - Send To from other apps to @Voice was not working correctly for some file types
Ver. 21.0.35
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 21.0.31
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 21.0.27
* Better background operation when processing large PDF files - opening and reading other types of files is possible while this conversion runs in the background
* The app interface is now translated also to Arabic language - thank you, Kenan!
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 21.0.17
* Better background operation when processing large PDF files - opening and reading other types of files is possible while this conversion runs in the background
* The app interface is now translated also to Arabic language - thank you, Kenan!
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 20.2.19
* Fix: Import speech replacement file from Download directory or clouds did not work
* Improvement in cropping some PDF files
Ver. 20.2.18
* Fix text extraction from some PDFs
* Stability and code quality improvements
Ver. 20.2.12
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 20.2.6
* Small improvement in extracting text from PDF files
Ver. 20.1.22
* Fix for selection of Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese languages
Ver. 20.1.19
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 20.1.10
* Fix: for some PDF files, lines were not joined correctly into paragraphs
Ver. 20.1.5
* Fix encoding problems when opening some MHT or MHTML files
* Fix opening some DOCX files
* Fix: entering a very long file name in "Save" function (like 200 characters or more) would crash the app.
* Fix: in Japanese text, Furigana characters should not be read aloud
* Fix: the app was forgetting reading position for some PDF files
* Many other important quality improvements
Ver. 20.0.6
* Added option to assign headset Forward or Back button to "Bookmark" function, to easily bookmark interesting places when your listen with such headset. Select this option under the Settings menu - Speech settings - HEADSET tab.
* Fix reading Google Docs files from Google Drive
* Fix opening DOCX files created by WordPerfect 2020
* Other quality and performance improvements
Ver. 20.0.3
* Small improvements to PDF text import - remove almost transparent text, which is often used for watermarks, and remove word splitting on some incorrectly created PDF documents
* Improved compatibility with Chromebook devices
* Other important quality and performance improvements
Ver. 20.0.1
* Improved compatibility with Chromebook devices
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 20.0.0
* Converted app back from the ill fated and Google mandated "Scoped storage" or "Storage Access Framework" (SAF) back to using standard file access, as it was a real disaster. Now accessing files is a lot easier and faster. Will keep it that way as long as I can, and give up on Google Play completely when they force me to use that... thing again.
Ver. 19.7.5
* Important fix: sometimes would skip entire chapter when reading aloud an ebook
Ver. 19.7.4
* The "3 dots" menu on floating toolbar that appears when text is selected now also shows functions added by other apps
* Better handling of SSML tags, small improvement in language detection
Ver. 19.7
* Ukrainian translation added - big thank you! to volunteer translators: Konstantin, Marinka and Volodymyr!
Ver. 19.7.1
* Fix crash when importing PDFs on 64-bit Intel processors (when using @Voice on Chromebooks)
* Added missing translations, fixed small glitch with TalkBack
Ver. 19.7
* Better filtering of very long Reddit.com pages
* Correction: sometimes reading progress was not saved
* Ukrainian translation added - big thank you! to volunteer translators: Konstantin, Marinka and Volodymyr!
Ver. 19.6.10
* Correct issues with repeating sentences and pauses between sentences and paragraphs
Ver. 19.6
* Added ability to use Google Cloud voices, including WaveNet - under "Change voice or language" press on top and select "Use Google cloud voices". You need to establish API key, enter payment method and pay Google for usage above their free tier. I don't think they are worth the trouble, but some users were asking for this for months.
Ver. 19.6.9
* Correct issues with repeating sentences and pauses between sentences and paragraphs
Ver. 19.6
* Added ability to use Google Cloud voices, including WaveNet - under "Change voice or language" press on top and select "Use Google cloud voices". You need to establish API key, enter payment method and pay Google for usage above their free tier. I don't think they are worth the trouble, but some users were asking for this for months.
Ver. 19.6.6
* Correct issues with repeating sentences and pauses between sentences and paragraphs
Ver. 19.6
* Added ability to use Google Cloud voices, including WaveNet - under "Change voice or language" press on top and select "Use Google cloud voices". You need to establish API key, enter payment method and pay Google for usage above their free tier. I don't think they are worth the trouble, but some users were asking for this for months.
Ver. 19.6.4
* Added ability to use Google Cloud voices, including WaveNet - under "Change voice or language" press on top and select "Use Google cloud voices". You need to establish API key, enter payment method and pay Google for usage above their free tier. I don't think they are worth the trouble, but some users were asking for this for months.
Ver. 19.5.8
* Fixing issue when running with Premium License with "continue recording to next article on reading list"
* Better support for Cantonese language
* Other quality improvements
Ver. 19.5.6
* Fixing issue when running with Premium License with "continue recording to next article on reading list"
* Better support for Cantonese language
* Other quality improvements
Ver. 19.5.5
* Fixing issue when running with Premium License with "continue recording to next article on reading list"
* Better support for Cantonese language
* Other quality improvements
Ver. 19.5.3
* Quality and performance improvements
Ver. 19.5.1
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 19.4.11
* Italian translation added
Ver. 19.4.10
* Fix for reading in horizontal scrolling mode
* Fix "Save" function for PDF files extracted to HTML/EPUB format
* Compatibility with Android 11 or "R" preview release
* Other important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 19.4.5
* Improved PDF text import - now optionally imports in HTML format, including font sizes and styles, images, navigation by page numbers and table of contents (if TOC was available in the original PDF file.
* On Android 10 and higher, the round button at right in @Voice notification now acts as a shortcut for pasting text into the app.
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 19.4.2
* Improved PDF text import - now optionally imports in HTML format, including font sizes and styles, images, navigation by page numbers and table of contents (if TOC was available in the original PDF file.
* On Android 10 and higher, the round button at right in @Voice notification now acts as a shortcut for pasting text into the app.
* Stability and performance improvements
V. 19.3.5
* Added Sort option to file browser that appears when + button pressed at the bottom of Reading list screen.
* Added file size and date for file to the above screen as well, can be hidden from the menu there.
* Added simple file manager to copy/move/delete/rename files, including hidden files and folders, find it at the bottom of the Settings menu.
* Stability and performance improvements.
V. 19.3.3
* Added Sort option to file browser that appears when + button pressed at the bottom of Reading list screen.
* Added file size and date for file to the above screen as well, can be hidden from the menu there.
* Added simple file manager to copy/move/delete/rename files, including hidden files and folders, find it at the bottom of the Settings menu.
* Stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 19.2.5
* Added option to adjust the number of sentences to skip forward/back, when headset next/previous buttons are pressed, under Settings menu - Speech settings - Headset tab.
* Fix: repeating a sentence with a pause, made the pause after last sentence much longer than needed
* Fix: Edit speech screen lost values entered, when screen rotation changed
* Fix: Upon deleting a list or book from the margin drawer of Read List screen went back to reading screen
Ver. 19.2.1
* Better text extraction from some web pages, including email shares from BlueMail app
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 19.1.18
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 19.1.12
* Conforms to Google policy to use scoped storage for file access. User needs to give permission (once) to access each directory. Huge chunks of app code had to to be re-written, but without it we'd have to abandon the app.
* It's now possible to open files from Google Drive and other cloud storage in @Voice directly (Open button - Browse by folders)
* Sync devices function is removed, it with recent changes in Android it became impossible to support it.
Ver. 19.1.9
* Conforms to Google policy to use scoped storage for file access. User needs to give permission (once) to access each directory. Huge chunks of app code had to to be re-written, but without it we'd have to abandon the app.
* It's now possible to open files from Google Drive and other cloud storage in @Voice directly (Open button - Browse by folders)
* Sync devices function is removed, it with recent changes in Android it became impossible to support it.
Ver. 19.1.6
* Conforms to Google policy to use scoped storage for file access. User needs to give permission (once) to access each directory. Huge chunks of app code had to to be re-written, but without it we'd have to abandon the app.
* It's now possible to open files from Google Drive and other cloud storage in @Voice directly (Open button - Browse by folders)
* Sync devices function is removed, it with recent changes in Android it became impossible to support it.
Ver. 18.2.3
* Correct: after recording a sound file and reading aloud normally, double tap on the text would unnecessarily show again the "recording finished" message.
* Correct: when repeating sentences, sometimes the last sentence of an article or chapter was not repeated.
* Stability improvements.
Ver. 18.0.4
* Fix: incorrect sentence splitting in ebook files, when an abbreviation with a space was encountered, e.g. "et al." or German "z. B." and similar.
* Fix: under the Open button, in “Browse by file type” mode, it was impossible to add a folder to scan that was located on an external SD card.
Ver. 17.6.6
* Content extraction improvements for some web sites.
* Google Text-to-speech voice data often gets damaged recently and voices stop to work. Got hundreds of support requests about it. This update to @Voice tries to notify you when this happens and guide you to resolve the problem.
V. 17.6.0
* Added "Read aloud" item to the toolbar that pops up when you select text in any app on Android (it's usually accessible after pressing the 3 vertical dots button). Sends selected text to @Voice app and reads it aloud at once. The option (and button in @Voice notification) to instantly read copied text no longer works on Android 10, this seems like a good alternative.
* Added status bar to Edit speech screen, showing the number of active and total items.
Ver. 17.5.10
* Some users did not like swipe icons on the Reading List screen - added option to hide them, in that screen's menu
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.5.4
* Still getting comments that app closes itself, when not in use. This release corrects the problem.
* Fix: for some ebooks, very short chapters could have language recognized incorrectly
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.4.0
* When another app is playing a very short sound (shorter than 500 ms), @Voice will not pause speech.
* Fix PDF text import - for some files lines of text appeared in wrong order, when more than one cropping areas were defined in manual crop.
* Other small stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 17.3.6
* @Voice now reacts to the Export chat function in WhatsApp, you may open a chat for reading aloud.
* Small stability improvements.
Ver. 17.3.4
* Fix problem with selection handles (after long-press a word) caused by the recent update of Google Chrome browser/Android WebView control
* Other important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.2.4
* Tap or long press any image to examine it closely, zoom and pan it if necessary
* Under Edit speech list screen, long press the add or insert buttons to add/insert a copy of the currently selected item (to edit and modify it easily)
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.1.3
* Sync with Pocket can be now sent to background, continue listening or using other apps while articles download
* Edit speech tag improvements - add/remove tags for all selected items, export enabled only (e.g. after selecting by tags), move all selected items to start/end of list after a long press on arrow buttons
* Improved language detection for some web sites
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.0.4
* Content filtration improvements for some web sites
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 17.0.2
* Fixes to Edit speech list search and screen layout when defining new speech replacements, adding tags on small screens.
* Avoiding white flash when deleting articles from the reading list, and for other operations that need to run in the background, but are very fast to execute.
* Using a new version 3 of Google CLD library for language detection - hopefully will be more accurate and crash less...
Ver. 16.9.9
* Together with the new version 1.1.4 of @Voice Floating Button Plugin, causes the floating button to hide when the main @Voice screen with the Play/Pause/Skip buttons at the bottom is visible, and how it again when that main screen is hidden.
* Small stability improvements
Ver. 16.9.7
* Fix: after sharing a PDF or other document from Dropbox or Drive, it was not possible to add bookmarks even after saving the document
* Other stability and performance improvements.
Ver. 16.8.2
* Better text extraction from CNN site and some others
* Android Q Beta 3 compatible
* Highlight spoken words option moved to Speech settings - START tab, and is now turned off by default. It affects negatively performance and battery, don't turn on unless necessary
* Important stability improvements
Ver. 16.6.8
* Android Q beta 2 compatible
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 16.6.6
* Android Q beta 2 compatible
* Important stability and performance improvements
Ver. 16.6.3
* New option under Edit Speech screen to insert new replacement at the current position
* Stability and performance improvements, sorry no Android Q Beta 2 compatibility yet...
Ver. 16.5.6
* Fix: when repeating sentences, would pause indefinitely at the end of a paragraph
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 16.4.3
* Long-press a word, then press Play button - app starts reading from that word, not start of the sentence.
* For TTS engines that can highlight the word read aloud (currently only Google TTS under Android 8 or higher), pause reading - resume, reads from the last read word, not start of the sentence.
* Fix for some FB2 files not opening, and TOC/Links not working in some MOBI/AZW3 ebooks
* Security improvements for PDF files handling
Ver. 16.3.11
* Fix for crash on some Xiaomi phones after update to Android 9
Ver. 16.3.5
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 16.3.3
* Stability and performance improvements
Ver. 16.2.4
* Fix an issue with importing old bookmarks for some file formats (e.g. PDF, TXT, DOC, HTML)
* Improved filtering for some web sites, e.g. Daily Mail
* Completely removed ads from Facebook network due to privacy concerns. This also makes the app about 0.5 MB smaller.
Ver. 16.1.6
* Click on a bookmark will now select the first sentence of the bookmark as the current sentence to start speech from (previously only brought the bookmark into view)
* Open screen in "browse by folders" mode will now auto-select the currently opened book or file, to easily browse to the next item in the folder
* Fix for the Play button being sometimes unresponsive
* Other stability and performance improvements
Ver. 15.9.3
* Small changes for better text extraction from some web sites.
Ver. 15.9.2
* Files shared to @Voice from some other apps would not open, if they sent URL-encoded paths, containing e.g. "%20" instead of space.
Ver. 15.9.0
* Restored asking for Storage read/write permission at app start, if it was not granted yet. Previously asked when using Open file function, but some users would send files to @Voice from other apps without every using Open button, and were getting cryptic error message only.
Ver. 15.8.16
* Better text extraction from some web sites.
* "Reload from browser" function improved for entering login/password info when needed.
Ver. 15.8.15
* Fix: highlight of currently read sentence did not work immediately after switching between full screen and normal reading modes.
* Fix: some ebooks in FB2 format did not open.
Ver. 15.8.14
* Fixing issue with angular brackets <> in plain text files.
* Fix: For Twitter app, Share - @Voice Add to list did not work
* Fix: Search result from the last part of an ebook were unavailable
Ver. 15.8.11
* Fixing issue with angular brackets <> in plain text files.
* Fix: For Twitter app, Share - @Voice Add to list did not work
* Fix: Search result from the last part of an ebook were unavailable
Ver. 15.8.3
* Un-blocking connections to http addresses, Google blocks them by default now on Android 8 and 9 and the users see "Clear text traffic not permitted" error messages when using http address instead of https.
Ver. 15.7.12
* Fix: on some devices after recording a sound file, the Play command from the recording finished message would not work
Ver. 15.7.10
* Added option to show an icon in the top row to instantly bookmark current sentence. Turn on under Settings/Extra buttons to show in top toolbar.
* Progress bar at bottom now follows the current scrolling position, rather than the highlighted current sentence, when not reading aloud.
Ver. 15.7.8
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Ver. 15.7.6
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Ver. 15.7.2
* Modified handling of very long web pages and HTML files, trying to save memory and prevent some out-of-memory crashes.
* Fixed sentence splitting in web pages or HTML files for Chinese and Japanese.
* Finally figured out what caused crashes on OnePlus One phone with Android 6.0.1, and a few other devices - Google's new App Bundle format for uploading apps to Google Play. Reverting to old APKs for now, which work fine.
Ver. 15.6.9
* Fix: text search was not working correctly for long texts or ebooks
* Avoid excessive showing of voice selector screen
* Other fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.6.4
* Fix: text search was not working correctly for long texts or ebooks
* Avoid excessive showing of voice selector screen
* Other fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.6.3
* Fix: text search was not working correctly for long texts or ebooks
* Avoid excessive showing of voice selector screen
* Other fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.5.29
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.5.26
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.5.24
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 15.5.2
* Fix: indefinite pause and sentence repeat were not working correctly
Ver. 15.5
* Divided extra-busy "Speech settings" screen into 4 tabs
* New options on Pauses tab of Speech settings - pause for the same duration as it took to read aloud a sentence or paragraph, or percentage of it.
* Improved sorting of articles on reading lists and file names - numbers in names are taken into account correctly.
* Bottom Repeat button is now hidden, enable back under Screen
Ver. 15.3.2
* Fix @Voice Folder Location function - when copying of data to new location was requested, nothing was copied...
* Added "Change voice or language" function also to the Settings menu - many users could not find it on the expanded bottom control panel.
Ver. 15.2.8
* Improve Bluetooth headset disconnect handling. When app was reading aloud and headset disconnected previously, would read aloud through device speaker one or two sentences, before stopping. Now should stop at once and emit nothing through the speaker.
Ver. 15.2.7
* Small fix to avoid showing voice selector screen too often, when TTS error is reported to @Voice code.
* Trying to fix an occasional speech stop on ebook chapter change, when screen off or app in background. If you experienced this problem before, please email me if it's any better now, or if the problem still happens. It's hard to test this properly due to intermittent nature.
* Some translations updated.
Ver. 15.2.3
* Fix for processing "The New Yorker" articles, and possibly articles from other sources that presented a similar problem.
* Fix problem with @Voice not pausing when Navigation or other voice announcement is played.
Ver. 15.2.0
* Added instant sentence translation option on single or double-tap, via Google Translate app. Enable if needed under Settings menu. Works best in split screen mode on Android 7 and higher.
* If absolutely necessary, you may long-press the round (>) button next to speech speed slider to increase the upper speed limit the slider allows. What a TTS engine will do with high-speed request is beyond my control.
* Better single letter abbreviation detection for Russian language.
Ver. 15.1.7
* Fix check-box selections reset on Edit Speech screen, when scrolled off the screen
* Trying to detect and suggest solutions for damaged TTS voices installed on user's device
* A lot of code gymnastics to make the obsolete IVONA TTS voices work in @Voice, some people can't live without them, apparently...
Ver. 15.1.1
* More messages shown with possible solutions, when correct TTS voice is missing or has no voice data installed
* Fixed some file association to open from file browsers files of type .fb2, .fb2.zip, .azw3 etc.
Ver. 15.0.2
* Edit speech items can now be individually activated or deactivated with check-boxes on the list. There are also options to activate/deactivate all on the menu there, and delete all inactive if necessary.
* Fix for "end of part" info for ebooks and other long files to have the same text background and color as the rest of the pages.
* Improved import from MOBI/AZW ebook formats
* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 14.4.2
* Small bug fixes
Ver. 14.4.1
* Fixed issues with some web pages constantly prompting for GDRP consent or forgetting passwords
* Added "Clear password" function to Settings menu, to clear all saved passwords and cookies if needed
* Other important bug fixes
ver. 14.3.8
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
v. 14.3.7
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 14.2.2
* Added easy access to Network Library downloads folder from the "Browse by folders" interface of "Open" function.
* Compatibility with @Voice Network Library Plugin ver. 1.0.4
Ver. 14.1.0
* Finally identified the bug in latest releases of Android WebView control which @Voice uses and found work around. The bug was either crashing app or blocking the phone for a minute or more when @Voice was used under TalkBack. Should be find in this release.
* Some translations updated.
Ver. 14.0.11
* Bug fixes
Ver. 14.0.9
* Bug fixes
Ver. 14.0.8
* Bug fix
Ver. 14.0.3
* Fix: When justify text was set, opening a new text would still use default alignment
Ver. 14.0.2
* Added option to show extra buttons in the top toolbar, if there is space - Settings, Paste and Bookmarks menu. Select what to show under Settings
* Copying text from @Voice app will not automatically read it aloud, if option to read aloud copied text is turned on
* Important bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 13.3.1
* Moved Setup function from the menu to gear icon in top toolbar for easier access
* Added option to reset "Open by default" setting to Setup screen, and warning user if a file of some type is opened by default, with option to reset. The warning may be turned off.
* Other important bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 13.1.2* Several bug fixes and performance improvementsVer. 13.1.1* Reading time left is now shown at the bottom status line when you start reading aloud.* Info panel available from "i" in circle button on the menu also contains reading time estimates.* You can pull down the info panel by swiping down from the top toolbar of @Voice app, and you may also expand the bottom control panel by swiping up from the bottom row of buttons.* Added Livio Portuguese dictionary support
Ver. 13.1.1* Reading time left is now shown at the bottom status line when you start reading aloud. It's updated after each sentence is finished.* Info panel available from "i" in circle button on the menu also contains reading time estimates.* You can pull down the info panel by swiping down from the top toolbar of @Voice app, and you may also expand the bottom control panel by swiping up from the bottom row of buttons.* Added Livio Portuguese dictionary support* Other important bug fixes
Ver. 13.0.2* Added option to not turn off "play on shake" feature if too much shaking detected* Fix: Default list was cleared after Share - Add to list, if @Voice was not started before* Fix: speech sometimes auto-started even if "Start talking at once" option was off* Fix: Plain text indented with spaces did not show correctly.* Fix: Superscripts in ebook files found at end of sentence formed part of the next sentence, causing trouble with speech replacements.
Ver. 13.0.0* Added option to start/stop speech when shaking device horizontally. Enable under Settings - Speech settings.* Several important bug fixes and performance improvements.
Ver. 12.08.01* Highlighting of spoken words is now possible under Android 8 and higher, with some Googe TTS voices. Other TTS vendors may implement the functions needed for this in future. May be turned off under "Screen and sleep timer settings"* Updated translations* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 12.07.08* Added text hyphenation option, it's turned on by default. Can be turned off or on under "Page look" (T+/- button on top), TEXT tab.* Fixed crash when trying to download Bookshare ebook* Fixed problems with reading aloud Norwegian Bokmal texts* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 12.06.01* Fix for some FB2 files still not opening correctly.* Hiding @Voice notification until absolutely necessary* Option to avoid auto-start of speech with some Bluetooth speakers - see Speech settings screen, "Ignore the first Play command..." option
ver. 12.05.07* Fix: sync functions were falsely recognizing internal memory as removable SD card, and refusing to work on some devices* Making sure that full screen ad will show only when loading new content (article, book chapter) and not in the middle of reading* Fix: some FB2 files were not opening correctly
Ver.12.05.03* Added EXPERIMENTAL feature to show active links in web articles. Enable under menu - Settings - Share icons, text and reading list.* Added OpenDyslexic fonts to the T+/- font selector. At this time these fonts exist only for Latin alphabets.* Edit speech list - long press up or down arrow button to move selected element to top or bottom of list.* Many other fixes and performance improvements.
Ver.12.04.00* Added option to deactivate page turning with the volume rocker keys, under menu - Settings - Screen and sleep timer.* New feature under TalkBack: double tap with two fingers to start or pause speech. Turn this option on or off under Settings - Accessibility* Added EXPERIMENTAL feature to show images in web articles. Works only for some sites for now, and shows them only if Internet is connected - lot more work to do...
Ver. 12.02.01* Some rare crashes fixedVer. 12.02.00* Added support for "The Free Dictionary" (basic and pro versions)* Small improvements in text importing from PDF files, prevent occasional words breaking with spaces* Fix for speech not stopping on incoming phone call, when "background music" option was enabled* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 12.02.01* Some rare crashes fixedVer. 12.02.00* Added support for "The Free Dictionary" (basic and pro versions)* Small improvements in text importing from PDF files, prevent occasional words breaking with spaces* Fix for speech not stopping on incoming phone call, when "background music" option was enabled* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 12.01.06* Fix: erroneous MOBI/AZW3 ebooks where a declared resource (e.g. image, chapter) was missing, would not open at all.* Now compatible with Smart Headset Assistant - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yado.sbh2
Ver. 12.01.01More enhancements under "Page look" T+/- icon* Several color themes for app controls to choose from* More fonts to choose* Select text alignment to be either justified or aligned left (or right for RTL scripts)* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 12.00.04* Fix: some ebooks would not read aloud, instead skip fast to the very endVer. 12.00.03* Added setting to change fonts between the document default, serif and sans-serif* Better performance when changing styles (line spacing, fonts)
Ver. 12.00.04* Fix: some ebooks would not read aloud, instead skip fast to the very endVer. 12.00.03* Added setting to change fonts between the document default, serif and sans-serif* Better performance when changing styles (line spacing, fonts)
Ver. 12.00.02* New option under T+/- button - set custom distance between lines of text in @Voice reading screen* New option to pause speech when screen is turned on* Updated to work with @Voice PDF Crop Plugin ver. 2.1, which permits defining several crop regions on a page and define the order in which to extract text from them.* Fixed handling of Android hardware or soft menu key, now very rarely available on new devices, but some old-timers still want it.* Other bug fixes
Ver. 11.04.03* Updated list of English abbreviations, to improve sentence splitting* Updated to the latest version of Google Services library* Translations update
Ver. 11.04.02* Limited max HTML file to 4 MB to avoid some crashes related to "out of memory" condition* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.04* Bug fixes and performance improvements* Some translations updated
Ver. 11.03.02* New - option to auto-add to list an article, if web address is copied (Settings - Share icons, text and reading list). E.g. in Chrome, long-press a link, then choose "Copy link address" to auto-add that page to reading list.* Improvement - if long text opened and pressing top-left round button opens text part selection, press top-left again to open the current reading list at once (one click less to reach reading list screen)* Fix - No Ads license did not work for a few users.
Ver. 11.02.03* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.02.02* In long multi-part document (TXT, DOC, PDF...) to jump directly to part N, press top-left logo and type part number.* Bottom progress bar and message now show both total progress in book/long doc, and current chapter/part progress. The notification shows now only total progress.* Accessibility improvement - under TalkBack a "Bookmark and reference" button shows on top, for easy bookmarking etc.* Important bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.01.05* Fixing problems caused by memory fragmentation in native code...* Upon long-press selecting a word, when the "reference" toolbar appears, press the 3-dot menu - Edit speech, to edit that word.* Added "Find" function to the list of speech replacements.* Better abbreviation handling to avoid stopping sentences on abbreviations ending with a dot.* Better bookmark handling, avoiding shifting bookmarks when sentences are split differently
Ver. 11.01.00* Upon long-press selecting a word, when the "reference" toolbar appears, press the 3-dot menu - Edit speech, to edit that word pronunciation or replacement.* Added "Find" function to the list of speech replacements.* Better abbreviation handling to avoid stopping sentences on abbreviations ending with a dot.* Better bookmark handling, avoiding shifting bookmarks when sentences are split differently* Many important bug fixes and performance improvements.
Ver. 11.00.06* Fix for headset media button press problem on Android 8 Oreo* Updated translations* Important bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.00.04* With @Voice Sync Plugin v2 provides with full sync between devices, including articles and ebooks, reading lists, reading positions, bookmarks and more.* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.00.03* Bug fixes and performance improvements* Prepared to work with beta-test version 2.0 of @Voice Sync Plugin with full sync between devices. To join Sync Plugin beta-tests, visit https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.hyperionics.avarSync
Ver. 11.00.00* Many bug fixes and performance improvements* Fixes problems with opening some FB2 ebooks* Prepared for full sync of articles, ebooks, reading progress etc. between devices, with alpha-test version of @Voice Sync Plugin for now. Contact author by email take part in this alpha-tests.
Ver. 10.15.00* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ver. 11.05.00* Fix - some articles from Flipboard, possibly other sources too, were not adding to list correctly* Splitting very long HTML files again for faster operation and to avoid out of memory errors - this time much more robust algorithm than the previous attempt.* Better text extraction from HTML sources that have text inside <dt> and <dd> tags
