NewsAloud Release Notes. Version 1.30 --------------------- Full support for Windows Vista Version 1.09 ------------------- -Lot's of bug fixes -Support for Acapela and RealSpeak voices -Info Balloons on new headlines, but not a million like in 1.05 Version 1.00 ------------------- -finished work on automatic file creation for improved work with Tivo and other automatically connected devices -Completed help file Version 0.50 ------------------ -Added Automatic file creation mode for automatically keeping MP3 files available of the latest stories. Version 0.45 ------------------ -Added support for RSS Feeds under Options->RSS Feeds. Version 0.40 ------------------ -Added support for sapi5 voices, including Cepstral voices -Added new Speak Controls->Scan Headlines function on the main menu. Version 0.33 Corrects problem with silent reading on some voices - volume was getting set to 0. Fixed bug where automatic speaking could hang up if you delete messages before they are spoken. Added Control-X hotkey for deleting selected articles. Added several new hotkeys for main menu entries. Fixed auto-start to automatically minimize program. Fixed install to automatically close any previously open instances and uninstall to do same. Version 0.31 6/27/02 Version 0.31 makes major changes over previous versions. The readQueue is not longer there. Instead you can either speak selected files (highlighted files) aloud or to file immediately, or you can choose to Mark files for later speaking (using Mark menu entries or toolbar buttons), then there are functions to Read Marked files aloud or to file. This works well because you can mark articles you want, then delete all unmarked files. This gives a better method to keep the folders clean and queue up those you want to hear for batch speaking. The list of articles behaves much more like Outlook Express now, with columns being sortable, articles showing up as soon as they are retrieved, and no longer refreshing the entire list with each change. This is much less annoying. Columns are clickable to change the sorting of articles, although the sort isn't perfect yet. There are probably still some problems in the articles with non-news items being spoken, but will work on this soon. Please send any issues or suggestions you find to ken@nextup.com