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Update History (macOS):

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(newest first)

Version 3.16.1

TelepaText gets a set of app display styles from light to dark:

Choose Cycle Settings (Control Shift Command L) in the Windows menu to cycle through the app display style settings.
Tap the Cycle Display button in the toolbar of a document window to cycle through the app display style settings.
App Display Style backgrounds include white, light gray, sepia, medium gray, dark gray, dark red, black and system.
App display styles, except 'system', override the macOS dark/light appearance. The 'system' appearance dynamically follows the macOS dark/light appearance.
App display styles give one the opportunity to customize their reading and writing environment in the app to suit their ergonomics, mood, style, for a given working situation.
Use app displays styles in combination with changing the window transparency by choosing the More Transparent or Less Transparent commands in the View menu.
Use Hide Others in the TelepaText menu to hide other applications and view documents in custom styled and transparent windows upon the desktop image.

Version 3.15.0

TelepaText gets a performance improvement and a new Settings option:

New option added in Settings: Download all iCloud documents in background. The default for this option is off.
If this option is on, then all iCloud documents are downloaded gradually in a background task, improving app responsiveness, and making the document collection available for offline access.
If this option is off, then iCloud documents will only be downloaded when one opens them, which prevents unnecessary iCloud transfers and cellular hotspot data usage. Downloading is only possible when the device is online and connected to iCloud.

Version 3.14.4

Updated TelepaText app icon with a better look for dark mode and improved proportions.
Fixed bug in speech controls view for compatibility with macOS Sonoma.

Version 3.14.3

TelepaText gets a couple improvements for compatibility with macOS Sonoma.

Updated the TelepaText Widget background to display state changes.
Updated the display of Finder label/tag color dots for documents in the Documents panel.
Minor text-to-speech pronunciation improvements.

Version 3.14.2

TelepaText gets bug fixes and improvement:

Minor text-to-speech pronunciation improvements.
Fixed a bug in the position of Markdown window when it first appears.
Using the "Rearrange windows upon opening" and choosing Tile Windows (Control Command T) in the Window menu will configure the source text document and it's corresponding Markdown formatted view appear side by side if they are the only two windows open.

Version 3.14.1

Fixed bug in Wikipedia searches for text with diacritical marks and other extended characters.
To search for a word, phrase or character in Wikipedia, select it and choose Wikipedia in the Actions view (Shift Command W).
Wikipedia searches can be performed on single characters, useful for informative lookups of unfamiliar characters.

Version 3.14.0

TelepaText gets improved document window tiling:

The Tile Windows command now sorts the document windows alphabetically by name. This ensures the order of the windows will be consistent through different sessions.
New options in TelepaText Preferences: "Tile windows spacing" in pixels, and "Maximum rows for Tile Windows". The "Maximum rows for Tile Windows" option expands control of window tiling, helpful for wide screen sizes.
Window tiling is updated after hiding or showing toolbars if "Rearrange windows upon opening" is on.
Press option before clicking the View menu to display the Hide All Toolbars or Show All Toolbars commands in the View menu.
TelepaText supports a wide range of versions of macOS, from macOS Ventura (13) back to OS X Mavericks (10.9), TEN versions of macOS / Mac OS X!

Version 3.13.1

TelepaText gets a couple improvements and bug fixes.

The Voice Settings view is now sorted by language, and new buttons are added for Enable All and Disable All.
Adjusted the background color of the Widget to a slightly blue-green color, supporting both Dark and Light appearance. This unique color helps one identify the widget if there is larger set of widgets visible.
Fixed bugs in the process of saving and restoring app settings.

Version 3.13.0

TelepaText gets a Widget for the macOS Notification Center.

The TelepaText Widget displays a set of the most recently opened documents in TelepaText.
Items include the file name, and a short excerpt from the beginning of the document.
Click a file name or excerpt to open that document in TelepaText.
The widget can be configured in three sizes: small, medium and large.

Installing the new widget:

Click the date in the top right main menu to open the Notification Center.
Below the notifications are the installed Widgets.
Control click or right click or two-finger tap in the Widget area to open the contextual menu.
Choose Edit Widgets to enter editing mode for the Widget display.
Navigate to TelepaText and choose the TelepaText widget and desired size.
Drag and drop the TelepaText Widget to the desired position in the widget area of the Notification Center.

The related TelepaText app for iOS also supports Widgets.

Version 3.12.2

Fixed bug in starting text-to-speech.
Minor improvements for text-to-speech of acronyms and unit abbreviations.

Version 3.12.1

Bug fix: Corrected keyboard shortcut for Normal Menu Bar to Control Option Command M, as it inadvertantly interferred with the macOS shortcut for Minimize (Command M) in the Window menu.

Version 3.12.0

TelepaText gets improvements and bug fixes:

New contextual popup menu in the directory name at the top of the Documents panel: Right click or Control click the mouse, or two-finger tap on the trackpad to open the contextual menu. The menu offers the following commands: Parent Directory, Show/Hide Info, View by name, by date modified, by date created, by date accessed, by size, by label.
Fixed a bug where file label colors were not displayed in the Documents panel on older versions of macOS such as OS X El Capitan (10.11.x).
Fixed a bug in opening a folder in the Documents panel.
Improved Tile Windows by centering the document window on the screen if only one document is open.
Improved Stack Windows behavior so document windows are centered on the screen.
Improved, sharper toolbar button graphics for older non-Retina screens.
TelepaText supports a wide range of versions of macOS, from OS X Mavericks (10.9) to macOS Monterey (12.x), NINE versions of macOS / Mac OS X!

Version 3.11.0

TelepaText adds a new Voice Settings view, and adds the "Speech voice" option in the Settings view.

The Voice Settings view is used to configure which voices are to be used for the "Auto-select voice for language" option in Settings.
To open the Voice Settings view, choose Voice Settings in the TelepaText menu, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-, (comma).
The Voice Settings view displays a list of the voices installed on macOS.
Click a voice in the Voice Settings view to enable or disable the voice. Enabled voices are displayed with a checkmark.
To configure which voices are installed in macOS, choose System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content > System Voice > Customize...
Auto-select voice for language -- If this option is on, the dominant language of a given sentence or line of text will determine the automatic selection of a text-to-speech voice for that language. If Auto-select is off, then the "Speech voice" in TelepaText Settings is used.
To change the "Speech voice" in the Settings view, open Settings, keyboard shortcut Command-, (comma), and click the up or down arrows for "Speech voice" to select the desired main speech voice. This overrides the macOS system default speech voice selected in System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content > System Voice.

Version 3.10.1

TelepaText gets a few minor text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.

Version 3.10.0

TelepaText improves dark mode appearance for older macOS / Mac OS X systems:

App-based dark mode is supported on OS X Mavericks (10.9) through macOS Sierra (10.12). Document toolbar buttons are now white on the dark background for better visibility.
Automatic Dark and Light Appearance in macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later is also supported via the macOS System Preferences > General > Appearance setting.
The TelepaText app supports NINE versions of macOS / Mac OS X!

Version 3.9.0

TelepaText gets a few new features for the document directory panel, text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes:

Control click, right click, or two-finger tap on a document in the directory panel to get the contextual popup menu.
The contextual menu includes several commands:
- Reveal in Finder – reveals the selected document in the Finder.
Delete — deletes the selected document.
- Parent Directory — displays the parent directory of the current iCloud subdirectory.
Show/Hide Info — displays the modified date and size for documents in the directory panel.
- View by name/date modified/date created/date accessed/size/label — sorts the documents and folders in the directory panel.
Further appearance improvements for older macOS systems, with better visibility for Dark Style toolbar icons.
Bug fix for the app-based dark mode appearance for macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Corrections and additions for text-to-speech pronunciation of units, measurements, and times.

Version 3.8.3

TelepaText gets an appearance improvement for older macOS systems:

Improved app-based dark appearance styles for older version of macOS, from OS X Mavericks (10.9) through macOS Sierra (10.12).
Automatic Dark and Light Appearance in macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later is also supported via the macOS System Preferences > General > Appearance setting.
Fixed a glitch in the Speech Reference view for dark style on older versions of macOS.

Version 3.8.2

TelepaText gets minor behavior and graphics improvements and bug fixes.

Fixed app launch bug where non-frontmost document was used for text-to-speech.
Fixed bugs in behavior of the "Speak upon opening" option in TelepaText Settings. If "Speak upon opening" is on, then text-to-speech will start automatically open manually opening a document, as well as launching TelepaText for the frontmost document restored from the previous session.
Fixed a graphic glitch in the background color of newly opened documents.
The frontmost document is now properly active for editing up app launch.
Improved app-based dark and light styles for older version of macOS.

Version 3.8.1

TelepaText gets fixes for users running older versions of macOS:

Fixed issues with document window toolbar display across various versions of macOS, from Mavericks macOS 10.9 through Big Sur macOS 11.
TelepaText supports dark appearance on all versions of macOS, even if the macOS version itself does not have that capabillity in System Preferences > General.
Fixed Mavericks macOS 10.9 compatibility issues in the Word Types action and text-to-speech.

Version 3.8.0

TelepaText gets Touch Bar support.

Added Touch Bar support for models with that hardware feature.
To customize the Touch Bar, choose Customize Touch Bar in the View menu. The standard customization view appears.
We've also made minor adjustments to toolbar icon proportions.

Version 3.7.0

Modernized TelepaText app icon for the new macOS Big Sur style.
Modernized and enlarged toolbar icons.

Version 3.6.6

TelepaText gets an improvement and bug fix:

The last used document window position is used as the default window position for newly opened documents if the "Rearrange windows upon opening" option in TelepaText Settings is turned off, and System Preferences > General > Prefer Tabs is set to Never.
Bug fix: There was incorrect text color shifting during text-to-speech. It is now fixed.

Version 3.6.5

TelepaText gets an improvement for macOS Big Sur and a bug fix.

Toolbar icons are appropriately spaced for macOS Big Sur.
Bug fix: Older non-premium text-to-speech voices are now properly spoken.
Text-to-speech voices are selected in the macOS System Preferences > Accessibility > Spoken Content (or Speech) panel. The text-to-speech rate, pitch and volume can be configured in the TelepaText Settings view (Keyboard shortcut: Command , (comma)).

Version 3.6.4

Bug fix: A short bit of bad responsiveness in the text view has been fixed.

Version 3.6.3

Bug fix for Greek words being spelled out in text-to-speech.

Version 3.6.2

TelepaText gets improvements to text-to-speech, new document windows, and bug fixes:

New documents and newly opened documents now use the size of the most recently active document window as the initial size.
Corrected text-to-speech pronunciation of some units of measurement abbreviations, other abbreviations and items.
Fixed glitches in text-to-speech.
Fixed glitch in window transparency for some newly opened documents.

Version 3.6.1

TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes:

Expanded support for pronunciation of abbreviations and fixed glitches in text-to-speech.

Version 3.6.0

Built with native support for the new Apple Silicon M1 processor.
Keyboard shortcut added: Stack Windows Behind Top - Control Option Command S.
The "Rearrange windows upon opening" feature in Settings now includes three window arrangement types: Tile Windows, Stack Windows, and Stack Windows Behind Top.
Minor text-to-speech improvements for abbreviations
New option in Settings: Make acronyms speakable.

An extra Markdown editing tip:

The Tile Windows arrangement is useful when doing Markdown editing of a document when that is the only document open. Open the Markdown view of the current document with the Markdown command in the Edit menu. Then choose Tile Windows in the Windows menu. The keyboard shortcuts are Shift Command N and Control Command T. If the "Rearrange windows upon opening" option is on, then the editing window and the Markdown window tile automatically after the Markdown window is opened.

Version 3.5.3

TelepaText gets new features and numerous text-to-speech improvements.

New window management command: Stack Windows Behind Top command in Window menu.
Numerous text-to-speech improvements for phrasing and acronyms, and a few bug fixes.
Added "Tab Spacing" option to Settings. Customize the tab spacing in text documents to better display TSV (Tab Separated Values) text.
Minor improvements to Markdown output: preformatted code in Markdown output is a blue green color.

Version 3.5.2

TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.

TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements for numeric unit and measurement abbreviations, which helps when using TelepaText to listen to technical and scientific texts. We do a lot of that here at Imaja!
Bug fix for text color after transitions between macOS Light and Dark Appearance.

Version 3.5.1

TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.

Text-to-speech now pronounces geographic coordinates such as 51°28′38″N.
Numerous other text-to-speech improvement for abbreviations.
Bug fix for app crash with certain text constructions.

Version 3.5.0

TelepaText is updated with support for tabbed windows**, and improvements to text-to-speech.

TelepaText uses the "System Preferences > Dock > Prefer tabs when opening documents" to determine whether to open a new document in a tab within an existing document window, or as a new window.
To choose the opposite behavior of the "Prefer tabs..." setting, hold the Option key while choosing a document in the directory view.
To open a document in a new window when the "Prefer tabs..." setting is on, hold the Option key while choosing the document in the directory view.
To open a document into a tabbed window when the "Prefer tabs..." setting is off, hold the Option key while choosing the document in the directory view.
Windows may alternately be tiled or stacked on the screen using the Tile Windows and Stack Windows commands in the Windows menu. To automatically tile or stack windows as they are opened and closed, there is an option in the TelepaText Settings view: "Rearrange windows upon opening".
To open TelepaText Settings, press Command , (comma)
Text-to-speech has been updated with improvements for speaking units and measurements from abbreviations.

Version 3.4.2

TelepaText is updated with minor improvements and a bug fix.

Minor improvements for text-to-speech, improved pronunciation of units, measurements, and abbreviations.
Fixed sporadic bug in handling of the Sentence Pause option for text-to-speech and the speech visualizer.

Version 3.4.1

TelepaText is updated with minor improvements and a bug fix.

Minor improvements for text-to-speech.
Fixed sporadic bug in handling of the Sentence Pause option for text-to-speech and the speech visualizer.

Version 3.4.0

TelepaText is updated with Evaluate action improvements for the calculation of basic mathematical expressions in the selected text:

To evaluate the numbers and mathematical operators in the selected text, choose Evaluate in the Edit menu (Command Shift V).
Commas in numbers are removed.
If a number is an integer, a ".0" is appended so it is a real number. The evaluation code in the system requires real numbers for correct calculations.
Words such as "one", "two", "plus" and "minus" are converted to the numbers and operators for the evaluation action.
Words other than numbers and operators ( ) + - + − × x ÷ / in the selected text are ignored.
If an operator between two numbers is omitted, then the addition operator (+) is assumed.
These features are new in both the iOS and macOS versions of TelepaText.

These improvements allow for addition of numbers in free-form text interspersed with numbers, such as a grocery list:
apples 5 oranges 6 kale 2
=
13

( apples 5 oranges 6 kale 2 ) * 1.0975
=
14.2675

A simple sequence of numbers is added with the Evaluate action:
1000 500 20 5
=
1525

Version 3.3.8

TelepaText is updated with minor improvements and bug fixes for text-to-speech.

Version 3.3.7

Minor bug fixes for text-to-speech.

Version 3.3.6

TelepaText is updated with improved text-to-speech:

Minor improvements to text-to-speech pacing.
Bug fixes in text-to-speech handling of punctuation.
Added a new "Clean up junk" Speech Command** to remove a variety of unnecessary text phrases used on typical news web pages, improving the content quality for text-to-speech for those types of documents.

Version 3.3.5

TelepaText gets some minor text-to-speech improvements.

Improved text-to-speech for special characters and punctuation.
The Use Speech Visualizer option now defaults to ON for new installations of the app. We recommend turning this on in the Settings view.
Check out the iOS version of TelepaText in the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch App Store.

Version 3.3.4

Improved display and fixed bugs for the Speech Commands Reference* window.
Added a couple modern screenshots.

** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase and provide a wide range of operations controlled by speech. See Speech Reference in the Windows menu for details. To purchase the Speech Commands module, choose Purchase Speech Commands Module in the File menu. Speech Commands are available for TelepaText on macOS, iPhone and iPad, and TaskInsight for macOS.

Version 3.3.3

TelepaText improvements:

Improved icon and text display in the Documents window for Dark Mode in macOS Catalina.

Version 3.3.2

TelepaText improvements:

Improved text-to-speech pronounciation for additional abbreviations, punctuation characters.
Improved text-to-speech muting of low priority items in text copied from Twitter web pages.

Version 3.3.1

Bug fixes:

Fixed dark mode display style bug for macOS Mojave and earlier.
Fixed bug in the toolbar button spacing.

Version 3.3.0

Updated for macOS Catalina. Improved Dark Mode support for macOS:

To have TelepaText respond to changes in the macOS Light Mode / Dark Mode, choose Light Style in the View menu.
To use 'dark mode' on macOS versions before macOS Mojave, choose Dark Style in the View menu.
Fixed a bug where speech was incorrectly stopping in certain situations.
Improved the behavior of Use Visual Effects for macOS Catalina when switching between Dark and Light Appearance.

Version 3.2.9

Improvements and bug fixes for TelepaText:

Improved text-to-speech for various abbreviations:
- 60in = 60 inches
- $2.5bn = 2.5 billion dollars
- 15cm = 15 centimeters
- 15mph = 15 miles per hour
- 33 m/s = 33 meters per second
- 2.5TWh = 2.5 terra-watt hours
- 2.5 mbd = million barrels per day
- 2.5 bboe = 2.5 billion barrels of oil
- $60/bbl = per barrel
- LDVs = light-duty vehicles
Improved text-to-speech with better muting of extraneous phrases in text documents with the text of Wikipedia pages.

Bug fixes:

The current document is now properly marked as changed after certain Speech Commands that modify the document.

Version 3.2.8

Update and bug fixes for TelepaText:

Text-to-speech improvement for Markdown documents: If the first character of a line is '#', as in headers in a Markdown document, there will be a slight pause and the text will be spoken in a somewhat higher pitch and slower rate to emphasize the header. This helps in comprehension of the document structure. Header line example:

# Top scientists suggest that more people read the studies and take action
The musical sharp, flat and natural characters are now spoken out in text-to-speech: ♭ flat ♯ sharp ♮ natural. This improves text-to-speech for musical chords names and progressions, such as G minor 7♭5, C 7♭9, F major 7♯11.
Fixed a sporadic bug where the document windows would be displayed incorrectly upon starting the app.
Fixed a sporadic bug where text highlighting for text to speech could cause a crash.

Version 3.2.7

A couple of minor new TelepaText speech features:

Text-to-speech enhancement for Markdown documents: If the first character of a line is '#', as in headers in a Markdown document, there will be a slight pause and the text will be spoken in a somewhat higher pitch to emphasize the header. This helps in comprehension of the document structure.
Speech Commands ** updated:
Added the word "continue" to resume paused speech:

[ Start | stop | pause | resume | continue | restart ] [ speaking | speech ]

New speech command:
[ Increase | decrease ] paragraph spacing

** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase and provide a wide range of operations controlled by speech. See Speech Reference in the Windows menu for details. To purchase the Speech Commands module, choose Purchase Speech Commands Module in the File menu. See Speech Commands for details. Speech Commands are available for TelepaText on iPhone, iPad, and macOS and TaskInsight for macOS.

Version 3.2.6

Speech Commands updated:

Added new commands: pause, resume and restart for text-to-speech control. This provides better hand-free and eyes-free control of TelepaText text-to-speech.
[ Start | stop | pause | resume | restart ] [ speaking | speech ]

** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase and provide a wide range of operations controlled by speech. See Speech Reference in the Windows menu for details. To purchase the Speech Commands module, choose Purchase Speech Commands Module in the File menu. See http://imaja.com/telepatext/speechcommands.html for details. Speech Commands are available for TelepaText on iPhone, iPad, and macOS and TaskInsight for macOS.

Version 3.2.5

NOTE: This update is a build for modern versions of macOS, 10.11 or later, and includes support for remote control functionality.

Improvements for performance and stability:

When loading large text files, the Automatic link detection results may be limited to the first part of the document to speed up app responsiveness.
Modernized code and fixed a bug in the remote control function for text-to-speech (earphones buttons and play/pause/previous/next buttons on the keyboard).
Fixed bug in "Auto-select voice for language" option in Settings.

Version 3.2.4

NOTE: This update is a legacy build for older versions of macOS, 10.9 or later, but DOES NOT include the remote control functionality. The remote control functionality will be restored shortly in the next update and requires macOS 10.12.2 or later.

Improvements for performance and stability:

When loading large text files, the Automatic link detection results may be limited to the first part of the document to speed up app responsiveness.
Modernized code and fixed a bug in the remote control function for text-to-speech (earphones buttons and play/pause/previous/next buttons on the keyboard). (This will be in the next update, a non-legacy release.)

Version 3.2.3

Improvements to TelepaText visual style, and a new keyboard shortcut:

Changes to the Use Visual Effects option in the View menu now take place immediately and do not require restarting the app.
Keyboard shortcut toggle: Use Visual Effects — Control Option Command V
Improved display of Speech Controls popup view in Mojave with Light and Dark Mode
Improved built-in TelepaText Dark and Light Styles, which are compatible with versions of macOS before Mojave.

Version 3.2.2

Fixed glitches in Speech Controls popup size and hiding.

Version 3.2.1

Improvements to text-to-speech.
Improved behavior and fixed glitches for the Speech Controls popup view when switching between visible documents and changing which document is being spoken with text-to-speech.

Version 3.2.0

New TelepaText features and changes:

Added new Speech Commands**
- [ Start | stop ] [ speaking | speech ]
  - With these commands, one can more easily use speech commands to control the text-to-speech hands free.
  - Set the Pre-Utterance or Post-Utterance delay (in Settings) to 3 seconds or more to leave an interval of silence between text-to-speech sentences and paragraphs. This allows Speech Commands such as "Stop speaking" to be recognized in the interval.
- Make speech [ slower | faster | soft | softer | loud | louder ]
Change the text size in the Speech Reference window
- Use pinch and spread gestures to change the text size
- Use Larger Size ( Command + ) and Smaller Size ( Command - ) to change the text size
Navigate the Speech Commands window with the up and down arrow keys and home, end, page up and page down keys.
New flexible full screen feature:
- New control in Settings: Width for full screen (in inches). Use this to control the width of the text area in full screen mode. The default is 8.5 inches. This can be increased to a wider area, helpful for using large text sizes and viewing from a distance or from limited vision.
- Full Screen mode keyboard shortcut: Control Command F.
- The text size can be changed with the keyboard shortcuts: Bigger ( Command + ) and Smaller ( Command - ).
- The flexible full screen mode can be used to present text and text-to-speech with the speech visualizer to an audience.
Other minor improvements.

** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase and provide a wide range of operations controlled by speech. See Speech Reference in the Windows menu for details. To purchase the Speech Commands module, choose Purchase Speech Commands Module in the File menu. See http://imaja.com/telepatext/speechcommands.html for details. Speech Commands are available for TelepaText on iPhone, iPad, and macOS and TaskInsight for macOS.

Version 3.1.2

TelepaText gets a couple new features, improvements and bug fix:

Added Speech volume control to Preferences. This is helpful for balancing text-to-speech volume with other audio such as music playing on the machine.
Added Use Speak Visualizer option to Preferences. This enables the highlighting of sentences as they are spoken.
Improved play / pause button in the speech controls popup view with a dynamic icon that responds to the text-to-speech state and the ear phones remote control and keyboard play / pause function key.
Bug fix: Corrected behavior of speech controls view.
Note: TelepaText supports dark mode, with light text on black, for versions of macOS 11.0 El Capitan through 13.0 High Sierra, and also includes customizable window opacity for even better blending of the TelepaText text editing environment with the desktop image. We designed to be an aesthetically beautiful tool.

Version 3.1.1

Bug fix:

Fixed a bug where the document would mistakenly auto-scroll to the highlighted sentence being spoken with text-to-speech, even when the document was being actively edited.
The auto-scroll during text-to-speech behavior is suppressed temporarily if one starts editing or changing the text selection in the document, and will resume if one stops editing or changing the selection in the document for 10 seconds or more. This allows one to do editing and browsing of the document even while text-to-speech is happening.

Version 3.1

New Handoff support and Stack Windows command!

New support for Handoff to easily switch editing TelepaText iCloud documents between various devices, from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and macOS computers.
- An iCloud document opened in TelepaText on iPhone or iPad will appear as a Handoff notification in the left end of the application switcher on a macOS system, and at the left end of the Dock.
- An iCloud document opened in TelepaText on a macOS system will appear as a Handoff notification in the application switcher on an iPhone or iPad.
- To open the App Switcher on iPhone or iPad, double tap the Home button.
- To open the App Switcher on iPhone X: Swipe up from the bottom to the middle of your screen and hold until you see the App Switcher. Handoff notifications appear at the bottom of the screen.
- To open the App Switcher on macOS, hold Command and hit Tab. Keep holding the Command key and hit Tab to move the next item in the App Switcher, or Shift Tag to move to the previous item.
Added Stack Windows command to Windows menu. Stack Windows positions all open document windows into a stack. As an alternate window layout, use the Tile Windows command to position the document windows in a tiled grid. The visibility and position of the Documents listing window is used to determine where document windows will be stacked or tiled.
New option in Settings: Rearrange windows upon opening. This option will automatically choose Tile Windows or Stack Windows based on the one's last manual choice.
Keyboard shortcuts for windows:
- Stack Windows — Control Command S
- Tile Windows — Control Command T
- Full Screen — Control Command F
- Documents — Control Command O
New speech command: Stack windows

** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase and provide a wide range of operations controlled by speech. See Speech Reference in the Windows menu for details. To purchase the Speech Commands module, choose Purchase Speech Commands Module in the File menu. See imaja.com/telepatext/speechcommands.html for details. Speech Commands are available for TelepaText on iPhone, iPad, and macOS and TaskInsight for macOS.

Version 3.0.9

Improvements and a compatibility update for the Speech Commands module:

Improvements for text-to-speech abbreviation handling.
Updated Speech Commands for compatibility with macOS 10.13.x.
Speech Commands bug fix for interpretor.

Version 3.0.8

Improvements and a bug fix for text-to-speech abbreviation pronunciation.

Version 3.0.7

Bug fixes.

Version 3.0.6

TelepaText for macOS gets a couple of minor interface adjustments and bug fixes:

New keyboard shortcut for Use Speak Popup option in the View menu: Control Command K.
The highlighted text currently being spoken is more distinct in dark mode.
Bug fix: Very short sentences no longer cause text-to-speech to stop.
Bug fix: Tile windows upon opening now works for opening documents from the File menu.

Version 3.0.5

Earphones remote control capability enabled: This version is built for compatibility with modern macOS versions 10.12 and later, including the earphones remote control feature for text-to-speech control. If one is running macOS 10.11 or earlier, one should skip this update.
Improved text-to-speech.
Toolbar icon glitch correction.
Other interface improvements.

Version 3.0.4

Minor cosmetic bug fix and change:

Corrected Edit menu icon graphics.
The Use Speak Popup menu option has been moved to the View menu.

Version 3.0.3

Backwards compatibility update and a bug fix:

This version is built for compatibility with earlier macOS versions 10.9 and later, but does not include the earphones remote control feature for text-to-speech control. If one is running macOS 10.12 or later, one can skip this update if one is already using the earphones remote control feature in TelepaText. The earphones remote control feature will be included again in the next update.
Bug fix: Fixed a glitch that may have prevented the In-App Purchase Store from processing purchases of the Speech Commands.

Version 3.0.2

Updated screenshots with new features and an interface graphic bug fix:

Updated screenshots to show speech visualizer and new text-to-speech popup controls.
Text-to-speech can also be controlled with the earphones remote control buttons and with the Play/Pause, Previous Track and Next Track function keys. TelepaText thus provides eyes-free listening and navigation of text-to-speech.
Fixed the scroller knob style for Dark and Light styles in the Documents listing and document views.

Version 3.0.1

Improvements and bug fixes:

TelepaText text-to-speech lets one listen to one document while editing other documents. The window tiling and automatic tiling provides a good interface for working with multiple documents side by side or in a grid layout.

Bug fixes:

Fixed view style glitch in info view used for Markdown, Word Types, and Word Usage actions.
Fixed a text-to-speech behavior bug: Speech is now stopped when closing the document being spoken.

Version 3.0

New features:

Added support for the remote control of the text-to-speech via the earphones buttons:
- To play or pause the text-to-speech, tap the center button.
- To skip to the next sentence, double-tap the center button.
- To skip to the previous paragraph, triple-tap the center button.
Added Use Remote Control option to Settings. This enables the app for using the remote control on the earphones.
The function keys on the keyboard may be used for controlling text-to-speech in a similar way: Play/Pause, Previous Track goes to the previous paragraph, and Next Track goes to the next sentence.
Improved the speech controls popup view with icon buttons for Stop, Play/Pause, Previous and Next. The Previous button restarts speaking from the previous paragraph. The Next button skips to the next sentence.

Improved speech visualizer and text-to-speech behavior and fixed glitches.

When stopping the speech, the selection is set to the end of the segment that was speaking. This makes it easy to enter text there if you stop the speech.
Typing in the text view during speech will stop the speech.
Making selections and using the Copy command will not stop the speech.
Special characters of numeric digits in circles are now spoken as words in parenthesis, such as as "(circle two)".
Fixed Auto-select language bug for users running macOS El Capitan 10.11.x and Sierra 10.12.
TelepaText improves text-to-speech with several customizable options for text-to-speech behavior, making it very useful for listening to educational and other material. Students and researchers will find these text-to-speech enhancements useful for studying. Text-to-speech lets one listen to text documents while doing other tasks. These text-to-speech enhancements are included in both the macOS and iOS versions of TelepaText.

Other additions:

Markdown, Word Types and Word Usage actions are all now available in the toolbar.
Choose Customize Toolbar in the View menu to set your toolbar preferences.
Reminder: Show and hide the toolbar with Command Option T.
New option in Settings: Use background texture. The background texture (a subtle gray paper texture) can be turned on and off. The related Display Style action in the Actions view toggles between dark and light styles.
Several of these options are also included in the recent TelepaText app update for iOS.
This version supports macOS 10.12.2 Sierra and later. Imaja will release another minor update to support earlier macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later, but without support for the earphones remote control function for text-to-speech. Be sure to update to the version that suits your configuration.

Version 2.4.3

Speech visualizer and other interface improvements and bug fixes.

The TelepaText speech visualizer for text-to-speech is improved with smarter behavior.
Text is highlighted as it is spoken, and the text insertion point (selection) is moved to the end of each text segment as it is spoken. (The speech visualizer highlight is not a selection.)
Stopping and restarting the speech continues from the same region in the document.
Stopping during a segment leaves the insertion point right after the segment so one can start adding text via the keyboard or dictation.
The Speak action starts at the current insertion point, or speaks the current selection.
Text-to-speech will stop if one starts typing into the document.
These improvements allow one to quickly move through a document switching between text-to-speech and writing modes in the same region.
Recap of Keyboard shortcuts for speech:
- Speak : Shift-Command ⇧⌘ K
- Pause Speaking : Option-Command ⌥⌘ K
- Stop Speaking : Command ⌘ K
Improved layout of Settings view with two columns.
Improved document window tiling and auto-tiling behavior. Auto-tiling saves time!
Updated Speech Reference view for the Speech Commands feature. Speech commands are an In-App Purchase that let one control the TelepaText app with speech commands for various actions.
Fixed minor glitches in some speech command responses.
Fixed a miscount glitch in the Word Types statistics.

Version 2.4.2

Improved speech visualizer and text-to-speech behavior and fixed glitches.

TelepaText improves text-to-speech with several customizable options for text-to-speech behavior, making it very useful for listening to educational and other material. Students and researchers will find these text-to-speech enhancements useful for studying. Text-to-speech lets one listen to text documents while doing other tasks. These text-to-speech enhancements are included in both the macOS and iOS versions of TelepaText.

Version 2.4.1

Minor bug fix:

Fixed bug in “Sentence pause” option for text-to-speech and the speech visualizer. The search for sentence terminators such as . ! ? followed by footnotes such as [3] was not working.
TelepaText improves text-to-speech with several customizable options for text-to-speech behavior, making it very useful for listening to educational and other material. Students and researchers will find these text-to-speech enhancements useful for studying. Text-to-speech lets one listen to text documents while doing other tasks. These text-to-speech enhancements are included in both the macOS and iOS versions of TelepaText.

Version 2.4

TelepaText adds a new visualizer for text-to-speech and new speech commands!

In the new TelepaText speech visualizer, text sentences or paragraphs are selected as they are spoken. This works well for visually following the speech, with less frequent updates than flashing each word. Use the Settings view to configure speech behavior options such as Sentence Pause and Post-utterance Delay. If one makes a manual selection during speech, the speech visualizer will be stopped. The iOS version of TelepaText for iPhone and iPad also adds the speech visualizer.

We listen to a lot of awesome Wikipedia pages, so this is quite helpful. The Sentence pause feature is essential for controlling the pace of the speech, where a longer pause may be generally desirable for listening to and comprehending educational or technical content. This extra pause after each sentence gives the listener more time to process and comprehend each sentence, particularly useful in listening to complex, dense material.

Refined the Markdown internal CSS style with a better size range on headers and tighter spacing. The size of the Markdown body text is matched to the current size of the document's editing view.
New option in TelepaText Settings: Show item info in directory. This option controls display of document modified date and size. Simplify the directory views by turning this option off.
New speech commands: **
- Speak all text
- [ Show | display | get ] markdown
Bug fix: The Sentence Pause option for text-to-speech did not work if there was a Wikipedia-type footnote that was being muted.
Fixed tooltips for toolbar buttons in the document window. Tooltips show the name of the button and the keyboard shortcut.
Minor bug fixes.

** Speech commands are an In-App Purchase that let one control the TelepaText app with speech commands for various actions.

Version 2.3.1

New text-to-speech and language/voice options in TelepaText > Settings:

Mute footnote numbers -- This option will mute footnote numbers such as '[1]' in text-to-speech -- helpful when listening to text such as Wikipedia articles. This also mutes other items such as ISBN and doi numbers that do not need to be spoken.
Auto-select voice for language -- If this option is on, the dominant language of the document or selected text will determine the automatic selection of a text-to-speech voice for that language. Text-to-speech can be configured in System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech > System Voice. If Auto-select is off, then one's selected voice in System Preferences is used.

Version 2.3

Expanded text-to-speech language support, improvements and a bug fix.

• Text-to-speech voice-language selection: If a document or selection to be spoken has a different dominant language than the voice selected in System Preferences on macOS, then a text-to-speech voice for that language will be automatically selected by the app. If the text language is the same as the user's language set in the macOS System Preferences, then the voice selected in System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech > System Voice is used.

• This automatic voice-language selection feature is also supported in the TelepaText companion app for iPhone or iPad. Both apps support iCloud for document storage synced between devices.

• Improved Tile Windows: If the number of windows to tile is less than grid spaces, the last window fills the remaining grid space.

• Enhanced In-App Purchase experience for Speech Commands module.

• Fixed bug in smooth scrolling during speak action.

Version 2.2.1

Improvement and minor bug fixes.

• If the smooth scrolling is interrupted by manual scrolling, then it will be paused and resumed again in a few seconds.

• Bug fix: The Map Search action on selected text now defaults to Apple Maps app on macOS 10.9 and later, and performs the Map Search with Google Maps in the default web browser on macOS 10.8 or earlier.

• Minor bug fix.

Version 2.2

New support for Markdown: Three new actions in the Edit menu convert the current Markdown text document or selection.

Markdown: View as formatted text. The current font and colors of the text view are used for the Markdown view.
Copy Markdown as HTML: Copy to the pasteboard as HTML. This can be pasted into the body section of an existing HTML document, using the existing style (font and colors) of the HTML document.
Copy Markdown as HTML page: Copy to the pasteboard as an entire HTML page with a head section and stylesheet using the existing style (font and colors) of the TelepaText view.

Markdown support is supported in both the iPhone/iPad and macOS versions of TelepaText.

Keyboard shortcuts:

Markdown - Shift-Command ⇧⌘ N
Copy Markdown as HTML - Option-Command ⌥⌘ C
Copy Markdown as HTML Page - Control-Command ⌃⌘ C

Version 2.1.7

Improvements and a bug fix:
• Tile windows now works on the set of windows that are visible on the current desktop Space, so you can have different sets of documents tiled on each desktop Space. To learn how to use desktop spaces, search for Mission Control in Mac Help in the Help menu. (Document windows are not currently restored to their assigned desktop Spaces upon restarting the TelepaText app.)
• Tile windows now works properly when any document windows are in full screen mode, only tiling windows that are not in full screen mode.

Version 2.1.6

New feature and bug fix:
• Added commands Increase Paragraph Spacing and Decrease Paragraph Spacing in the Format menu, including keyboard shortcuts.
• Text view updates immediately now upon changing the Paragraph spacing option in Settings.

Version 2.1.5

New features and improvements:
• Improved automatic window tiling. If only one document window is open, it will be automatically positioned in the center of the space next to the Documents panel.
• Added paragraph spacing option in Settings view. This value is relative to the font size. 0.0 means no extra paragraph spacing. 1.0 means the paragraph spacing is the same as the font size. This option lets one see paragraphs more easily, and eliminates the need for two Return characters between paragraphs to create a blank line visually.

Version 2.1.4

New Speech Commands* and Improvements for TelepaText:
• New speech command: [Evaluate | calculate] [text | selection]
The selected text is evaluated and the result displayed.
• New speech commands: [Show | display] [Word Usage | Word Types]
Shows the Word Usage or Word Types view for the selected text or document.
• If Tile windows is performed with only one document window, then the window takes up only the left half of available space; short line lengths makes for better readability.

* Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase

Version 2.1.3

• Added Reveal in Finder in contextual menu for items in the Documents listing. Control-click or two-finger tap a document in the Documents listing to open the contextual menu.
• If the Documents panels is opened or closed and the "Tile windows upon opening" option is on in Preferences, the the currently open document windows will be tiled.
• Window tiling is animated if there are six or fewer document windows open. If more than six documents, windows will be tiling instantly with no animation.
• Updated app icon for a brighter look.
• Be sure to check out the companion app, TelepaText for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Version 2.1.2

Improvements and new features:
• Improved automatic window tiling behavior for opening or closing multiple files.
• Added two new options to Preferences > Hide Others On Startup, and Hide Others On Activate.
• Follow Imaja on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImajaApps

Version 2.1.1

New features:
• Added Word Usage action to calculate word usage counts for the selection or document.
• Added Word Types action to diplay the part of speech for each word in the selection or document.
• The Word Usage and Word Types actions mirror the actions in the iPhone/iPad version of TelepaText.
• Added support for more special characters in Web Search action.
• Added option in Settings: Show item location in directory. This streamlines the document listing when turned off.
• Updated links to other apps from Imaja for macOS and iPhone/iPad: TaskInsight, Speak News, Perspectiva, CalReader and Astral Blossom.

Version 2.0.7

Increased character limit for sending a Twitter tweet from a text selection to account for URL shortening.

Version 2.0.6

Bug fix: Directory view is properly scrolled to the top when moving to a subdirectory.

Version 2.0.5

Bug fixes:
• Fixed bug in Settings view with check boxes.
• When opening a document, adjust window position so it is not under Recent Documents panel.

Version 2.0.4

• Fixed bug in Settings view with check boxes.

Version 2.0.3

• Changed Tile Windows keyboard shortcut to Command-Control T.
• Fixed bug in Settings view with Done button label.

Version 2.0.2

New features and minor bug fixes:
• Added Speech Commands: Turn sentence delay [on | off], Turn line break delay [on | off], Make sentence delay [longer | shorter], Turn speak upon opening [on | off].
• Upper Case, Lower Case, Capitalize actions added for text.
• Added more optional actions toolbar buttons. To configure the toolbar, choose Customize Toolbar in the View menu.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.0

New features: Speech Commands, New Actions and Actions Toolbar
• Speech Commands (an In-App Purchase) provide powerful ways to control the app with your voice on macOS and iPhone. Use speech commands to select text, open documents, get info about documents, rename documents, evaluate expressions, change settings, send tweets, insert a contact's address, phone, or email, insert the date or time, and many more actions.
• The new Actions toolbar is optional. It contains many of the same actions available in the Edit menu, with the same icons, and provides one click access to many common actions.
• New Evaluate action to evaluate the mathematical expression in the text selection.
• New Sort Lines action to sort the lines of text in the selection.

Version 1.0.7

Improved Speak action:
• The Speak action now includes a pause between new lines of text on macOS, improving comprehension of text file structure.
• Improved the Speak controls view.

Version 1.0.6

User interface improvements and bug fixes.
• Improved window title bar color for Dark Style.
• Various option states are now properly indicated in menus with checkmarks.

Version 1.0.1

• TelepaText currently supports macOS, OS X 10.9 and earlier and iOS 7 iCloud system. iCloud Drive support will be added as soon as possible after OS X 10.10 Yosemite is released.
• Smooth Scroll feature: Turn on Smooth Scroll (Option-Shift-Command S) in the View menu to have text automatically scroll smoothly for hands free reading. Scrolling starts from the current position in the document. You can manually scroll to a new position while smooth scrolling is operating and smooth scrolling will continue from there. Smooth scrolling runs for 2 minutes and then stops automatically.

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