@Voice version history and release notes.

Recent changes

Ver. 37.9.1, Apr. 4, 2026

Ver. 37.8.9, Apr. 2, 2026

Ver. 37.8.8, Apr. 1, 2026

Ver. 37.8.7, Mar. 31, 2026

Ver. 37.8.5, Mar. 26, 2026

Ver. 37.8.4, Mar. 23, 2026

Ver. 37.8.3, Mar. 20, 2026

* Added a new `Copy from cloud` option in the file browser to import files from cloud/document providers into a local folder.
* Improved opening and reopening of EPUB and MHTML files from cloud/document providers, with more reliable resume and saved-position handling.
* Improved web article extraction on some sites with security checks, reducing false failures when temporary verification screens clear on their own.
* Improved sentence highlighting timing in bilingual reading modes.
* Maintenance update and compatibility improvements for built-in web extraction and content handling.

Ver. 37.8.0, Mar. 17, 2026

* Added a new Reading History screen, so you can reopen recently shared, pasted, downloaded, or externally opened content more easily.
* Reading History can now be cleared manually or set to remove older entries automatically after a chosen number of days.
* Improved compatibility when sending selected text to external dictionary and lookup apps, including Oxford Dictionary.

Ver. 37.7.3, Mar. 11, 2026

Ver. 37.7.2, March 8, 2026

* Fix: clicking on "Ask AI" menu or button would crash the app on Android 9 or older.

Ver. 37.7.1, March 7, 2026

* New Ask AI feature: send the current article or the currently loaded part of a book to your preferred AI assistant for summaries, questions, or discussion. It is available from the app menu, and can also be added to the top toolbar in Settings > Extra buttons to show on top toolbar.
* Web article extraction is now more reliable. The app automatically uses JavaScript loading when needed, and the old prefer JavaScript by default option has been removed to simplify setup.
* Speech start/stop broadcasts now include the article title and reading progress, improving integration with automation tools.
* Improved PDF-to-HTML extraction stability.

Ver. 37.6.1, Feb. 28, 2026

* The app can now open ebooks and PDF files protected with Readium LCP DRM, if the user obtains .lcpl or protected file from an online book store or library (for library loans). The user must know their correct passphrase to open such files for the first time.
* Improved text extraction from some websites.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 37.5.4, Feb. 8, 2026

* Fix: Opening PDF files on GrapheneOS was not possible
* Other important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 37.5.3, Feb. 5, 2026

* Improved text extraction from some web pages.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 37.5.2, Feb. 2, 2026

* Fix: when sharing new links to @Voice - add to list or open, too fast, corrupt files could be saved.
* Improved text extraction from some web pages.

Ver. 37.5.0, Jan. 31, 2026

* Fix: Chinese language could not be selected for Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure voices.

 Ver. 37.4.5, Jan. 23, 2026

* Stability and performance improvements.

 Ver. 37.4.4, Jan. 20, 2026

* Improvements to text extraction from some web pages.
* Silenced "Starting @Voice service" announcement for TalkBack users.

Ver. 37.4.1, Jan. 15, 2026

* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 37.4.0, Jan. 11, 2026

* More fixes due to many web pages not loading, as they are blocked by Cloudflare or similar services from loading into non-standard web browsers. Now most should load normally, without the need to save from a separate browser.

Ver. 37.3.6, Jan. 9, 2026

* More fixes due to many web pages not loading, as they are blocked by Cloudflare or similar services from loading into non-standard web browsers.

Ver. 37.3.5, Jan. 8, 2026

* Fix: sharing or using "open with" a PDF file from other apps to @Voice did not work.
* Opening the Reading List screen no longer automatically adds files saved in Dropbox to be added to the reading list. One has to select manuall menu - "Add from Dropbox".
* Under the Settings menu - "Sync progress/bookmarks and reading lists", added a new button to "Reset Download Time" - for the cases where you want to re-download from Dropbox all pending files to be added to a reading list, no matter when they were saved.

Ver. 37.3.3, Jan. 5, 2026

* Fix inconsistencies in handling bilingual translations and how the sentences are highlighted then
* Fix link navigation problems within the app, when used under screen readers like TalkBack.

Ver. 37.3.1, Dec 31, 2025

* Opening PDF files with Android Files app from remote locations, e.g. Google Drive, would often show error 10 message.
* Improvements in web page text filtering
* Fixes for desktop browser plugins - "Open in @Voice" not always working.

Ver. 37.2.5, Dec. 24, 2025

* Improved sync between devices and desktop browsers extension handlers
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 37.2.4, Dec. 20, 2025

* Improved some bookmark import code.
* Fixes to web page content extractor and serial downloader

Ver. 37.2.2, Dec. 18, 2025

* Now saves web articles in ZIP format instead of MHTML, using at least 50% less of storage space
* Improved text extraction from some websites
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 37.2.1, Dec. 14, 2025

* New: @Voice Add to List Chrome browser extension (for desktop browsers) has now a choice to open at once the current page in @Voice app on your phone, tablet or Android emulator. This update to @Voice app is necessary for this new feature to work.
* Improved text extraction from some PDF files.

Ver. 37.1.3, Dec. 11, 2025

* Fix: Recent update of Android 16 by Google (Gson component) caused crashes when opening some web pages. Working around that bug.
* Fix some inconsistencies in opening PDF files

Ver. 37.1.1, Dec. 7, 2025

* Fix issues with translate widget, when "Show bilingual text at once" option was on
* Fix word highlighting for network voices
* More accurate word highlighting with complex speech replacements.

Ver. 37.1.0, Dec. 5, 2025

* Improved back and forth history navigation, and added buttons to go forward or back to the bottom bar with round buttons.
* When sync is enabled, the app now check if the progress of another device is further along upon starting playback, and announces this by voice, if screen is not on.
* in PDF view mode change the length of horizontal sweeps to switch pages to be much longer, to avoid confusion when using other gestures, e.g. pinch zoom

Ver. 37.0.2, Dec. 1, 2025

* Added "Send/Receive" item to the menu on "Reload or clear" button (circular arrows icon) - to send the currently read file, reading progress and bookmarks to another device, through the user's Dropbox account. Seamlessly resume reading on another device, e.g. from phone to tablet
* Better explanation what to do in some sync scenarios.
* Fixed some bugs that crept into rel. 37.0.0

Ver. 37.0.0, Nov. 29, 2025

* Better "sync between devices", particularly for PDF files
* Better bookmark handling, ability to recover them if the file to which they refer is modified
* New function on Bookmarks screen to bulk-export all bookmarks
* Serial download on the Reading list menu has now options to retry any link several times, in case of errors, and to limit the max. number of downloaded files

Ver. 36.0.4, Nov. 19, 2025

* Fix error in pinch zoom in PDF viewer
* PDF viewer page rendering is now much faster and by default at higher resolution

Ver. 36.0.3, Nov. 15, 2025

* Some web pages were saving with wrong encoding, when using Share - Add to list, the option "Save pages as web archives..." under Settings - Share icons, text and reading lists, was disabled.

Ver. 36.0.2, Nov. 14, 2025

* PDF manually crop pages function - copy to other pages - defaulted to copy just one current region, which was confusing. Changed to default to copy all regions as older versions did.

Ver. 36.0.0, Nov. 10, 2025

* PDF View improved - long press on text on any PDF page will highligh the sentence at that place, and resume reading aloud from that place, either automatically, if "read at once" option is turned on, or upon pressing the Play button 

Ver. 35.9.8, Nov. 4, 2025

* Upgraded Tesseract OCR library code to ver. 5.5.1, the latest at this time (prev. version was 5.0.1). Slightly better and faster OCR
* Table of Content (TOC) is now imported better from PDF files, creates multi-level TOC instead of one flat list as before.
* New option under the Settings menu - Screen and sleep timer settings, to either hide or show the screen cutout or camera hole in the full screen reading mode.

Ver. 35.9.6, Oct. 30, 2025

* Fix some issues with bookmarks for HTML files extracted from PDFs.
* Fix: edit bookmark screen shown after long-pressing a bookmark on the list of bookmarks was incorrect, showing a different bookmark, if some bookmarks about it on the list were deleted.

Ver. 35.9.5, Oct. 28, 2025

* Fix for extracting text from some PDF files, which do have a valid table of content for example, but in @Voice this table does not appear correctly, and the navigation by page numbers was then also not available

Ver. 35.9.4, Oct. 25, 2025

* Modified the PDF view, when you are reading a PDF file and presses the PDF view button at the bottom left, the currently read aloud lines, which are highlighted in yellow, will auto-scroll into view, if you have zoomed in and these lines are outside of the visible area.

Ver. 35.9.3, Oct. 24, 2025

* The language selection screen for OCR and translation has now a search box where the languages on the list are filtered by the characters you type, to let you quickly find what you need.
* Some more compatibility fixes for Android 16
* Improvement for opening web pages that show an online view of a PDF file - now the part which informs you of this fact and offers a Download button, is visible again.
* Fix for inoperational table of content in some ebook files.

Ver. 35.9.1, Oct. 16, 2025

* Under the Reading list screen - menu - Paste links, better parsing of links from downloaded HTML or MHTML files. Now works if you e.g. download a page with TOC of some web novel and want to extract chapter links from it for downloading.
* Some special Unicode characters, like ‌ caused Google TTS to read words letter by letter - now filtering such characters out automatically.
* Rebuilt to target Android API 36 (Android 16), per Google requirements.

Ver. 35.8.10, Oct. 10, 2025

* Fixed: When using paid cloud voices from Google, Microsoft or Amazon, and reading articles from the list, the articles after the first one were using the default speed and pitch of voice, instead of what the user set at the bottom control panel
* Fixed: Some FB2 ebook files were not opening correctly.

Ver. 35.8.6, Oct. 5, 2025

* Fixed: camera punch hole was covering text on some devices in full screen reading mode.
* Fixed: in voice change annotation, the controls for speed and pitch were not working.
* Fixed: tutorials were not working correctly.

Ver. 35.8.2, Sept. 27, 2025

* Fixed some problems with changing voices in regular articles or ebooks, introduced with ver. 35.8.1.
* Added ability to pre-define voice changes in an EPUB file, currently working only on the experimental copy of the "Syntax of the Deep" ebook from https://hyperionics.com/downloads/atVoice/deals/Syntax_of_the_Deep.epub

Ver. 35.8.1, Sept. 25, 2025

* Added ability to pre-define voice changes in an EPUB file, currently working only on the experimental copy of the "Syntax of the Deep" ebook from https://hyperionics.com/downloads/atVoice/deals/Syntax_of_the_Deep.epub

Ver. 35.7.3, Sept. 18, 2025

* Added option to center the text being read aloud, when vertical scrolling is selected.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.7.2, Sept. 15, 2025

* Added MP3 options to "Record sound file" function
* Better handling of Markdown (.md) files, can be sent to @Voice with Android Share functions
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.6.0, Sept. 4, 2025

* Making sure that full screen ads disappear, if during their display you press or swipe to go to Android home screen and then return to this app.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.5.17, Aug. 30, 2025

* Fix: some EPUB files with special characters in the internal chapter file names were not loading correctly.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.5.15, Aug. 27, 2025

* Fix: reset progress on the Reading List screen did not work correctly for ebooks and long HTML files.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.5.8, Aug. 17, 2025

* Improvement for some websites' text extraction (filtering)
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.5.1, Aug. 10, 2025

* Fix: OCR of PDF files was not working in the previous release
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.0.4, Aug. 8, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.0.3, Jul. 29, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 35.0.2, Jul. 14, 2025

  * Improved processing of zalgo text.
 * Fix: when using volume rocker as page turner, the pages were turning fine, but also the volume control was appearing on the screen.
 * Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.4.9, Jul. 9, 2025

 * Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.4.8, Jul. 6, 2025

 * Fix horizontal scrolling in e-paper mode
 * Fix opening some FB2 files, what have syntax error in their code.
 * Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.4.5, June 29, 2025

 * Under the "Page look" button on top (T+/- icon), MODE tab, added an option to force e-ink mode. It is available when you switch the app into the horizontal scrolling mode. This mode avoids page change animation and flashes the page with black and white to minimize e-ink "ghosting". It also changes the color scheme of the icons and buttons for better contrast. 

Ver. 34.4.3, June 23, 2025

 * Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.4.0, June 17, 2025

* Avoiding animation when changing pages on e-ink screens and flashing screen between pages to minimice ghosting.
* Added Korean translations of the app's screens, menus etc.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.3.1, June 13, 2025

* Changed the way to select target folder for Record sound file function, to the internal file browser of @Voice - makes it possible to navigate e.g. to host shared folders under BlueStacks Android emulator.
* Added Japanese and Indonesian translations of the app's screens, menus etc.
* Removed "Add from Pocket" and related functions from the Reading list menu, as Pocket is shutting down.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.1.2, June 5, 2025

* New Replace function added to "Edit text"
* Improved website filtering
* Fixed opening some FB2 files, which previously failed
*Other important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 34.0.12, May 28, 2025

* Important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 34.0.10, May 24, 2025

* Fix: edit text function, when started in dark mode, had black letters on black background.
* Important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 34.0.8, May 21, 2025

* Added fast scroll bar to the "Edit speech" screen, as some users define close to 2000 speech replacements.
* Fix: start talking at once option did not work correctly after a new article or book chapter was loaded.

Ver. 34.0.6, May 19, 2025

* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.0.5, May 16, 2025

* More fixes to translation mode, it did not work correctly when e.g. the @Voice app was swiped off the screen or exited with Back button and restored, and similar situations.
* Other important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 34.0.4, May 14, 2025

* Better filtering of some very long web pages, that load in parts into @Voice app to avoid memory overflow errors.
* Translations still failed in some situations or did not show an obvious way of adding new languages, fixed.
* Other important stability and performance improvements. 

Ver. 34.0.3, May 12, 2025 (not in Google Play)

* Better filtering of some very long web pages, that load in parts into @Voice app to avoid memory overflow errors. 

Ver. 34.0.2, May 12, 2025

* More improvements to the Translate function, and it's now available as one push button on top. Try it out. Also look what's new under the Settings icon (gear graphics), after you pressed the Translate button.
* Decoding "Zalgo" monster speech, used in some fantasy novels, so that it could be read aloud. Also lowered the Zalgo text pitch by 50% to give a clue that a monster is speaking.
*  Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.6.0, May 4, 2025

* Translate function on the "Reload or clear" menu (circular arrows button on top) is much more reliable now. If you are learning foreign languages, after translating text try also the "Bilingual text" option on that menu, and listen.
* Backup/Restore @Voice folder functions now preserve the file date/times - important if sorting lists by time
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.5.8, Apr. 26, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements.

 Ver. 33.5.7, Apr. 24, 2025

* Translations work better and faster now
* Better handling of <iframes> inside downloaded MHTML files

Ver. 33.5.5, Apr. 23, 2025

* Fix: HTML <pre> text passages were not read correctly, when paragraphs were separated with empty lines.
* Continuing the on-going struggle to find and eliminate the bad banner ads or ad sources, that crash the app occasionally.

Ver. 33.5.0, Apr. 15, 2025

* Website filters can now contain some speech replacement, e.g. to still show in the text emojis, or reference links, but not read them aloud.
* Still trying to find and eliminate the bad banner ads or ad sources, that crash the app occasionally.

Ver. 33.4.7, Apr. 11, 2025

* Added support for Amazon Polly "generative" and "long-form" voices.
* Work to eliminate app crashes caused by some banner ads
* Stability and performance improvements.

 Ver. 33.4.4, Apr. 7, 2025

* Improvements to how Math tags are either read or ignored when reading aloud. 
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.4.2, Apr. 2, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.4.1, March 30, 2025

* Added search boxes to the language and voice selectors on "Change voice or language" screen.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.3.5, March 25, 2025

* Now opens also .txtz files
* Improved link sharing from @Voice to other apps
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.3.3, March 22, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.3.1, March 20, 2025

* Detects on many pages that offer an online view of a PDF file, and offers to download that file for local reading aloud
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 33.2.1, March 9, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 33.1.0, Feb. 28, 2025

* Website filtering improvements
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 33.0.1, Feb. 17, 2025

* The app is now supported only on Android v8 (Oreo) and higher. Sorry, due to some software components incompatibility can no longer support older versions of the system.
* Website filtering improvements
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.10.9, Feb. 4, 2025

* Important bug fix, the online configuration was not read in some situations.
* The "Monitor Download folder..." function, if enabled to add dowloaded pages to the reading list, will now move the files from Download directory to the directory assigned to the current reading list.
* RegExp matching in text processing filters (edf, edp) is now set to SINGLELINE mode (or DOTALL) for more flexible matches across mutliple lines of text.

Ver. 32.10.5, Jan. 30, 2025

* Website filtering improvements

Ver. 32.10.0, Jan. 17, 2025

* Performance and memory saving improvements 
* Website filtering improvements.
* Updated some translations.

Ver. 32.9.1, Jan. 12, 2025

* Updated some translations and minor filtering improvements.

Ver. 32.9.0, Jan. 10, 2025

* Improvements to web page text filtering, reporting bad filters and following links within @Voice app.

Ver. 32.8.6, Jan. 5, 2025

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.8.5, Jan. 1, 2025

* More improvements to website text filtering and serial download

Older changes

Ver. 32.8.3, Dec. 29, 2024

* Improvements to website text filtering and serial download
* New function under the "Reload or clear" menu (circular arrows button): "Refresh config", to instantly refresh the app online configuration and website filters. By default the check for updates of config is every 1 hour.

Ver. 32.8.0, Dec. 21, 2024

* A message asking the user to review the text newly extracted from a web-page and email us if something is wrong, is pre-pended to the output shown in @Voice, but not read aloud. It can be easily hidden and there is a setting to stop showing it, if ennoying. Hopefully will let us improve text filtration for many websites.
* If the app is switched into full screen reading mode, which sometimes may happen accidentally after long-pressing the round button at the bottom-right, a short instruction is shown on how to use this feature and go back to normal mode. An option is provided to supporess this message, or it will stop showing after being viewed 3 times.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 32.7.7, Dec. 16, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.7.6, Dec. 12, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.7.5, Nov. 29, 2024

* Important fixes to downloading pages while following Next links.

Ver. 32.7.4, Nov. 27, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.7.2, Nov. 25, 2024

* Small fix for pages that refuse to load, because they contain unknow URL links, e.g. some Facebook pages have fb://... links. The app is now blocking a try to download such link, so that the rest of the page could load normally.

Ver. 32.7.1, Nov. 24, 2024

* Faster processing of some long HTML files

Ver. 32.7.0, Nov. 23 2024

* When you share or paste a web link to @Voice, it automatically recognizes if the page has "Next" links and proposes to download the following pages (or "chapters") into one EPUB file. Such "serial" download may be stopped at anytime, preserving the parts downloaded before pressing STOP.
* Better handling of user interface in right to left reading order languages, e.g. in Arabic.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.6.5, Nov. 14 2024

* Small change to adjust how long HTML files are handled, if their length comes mostly from inline encoded images. 

Ver. 32.6.4, Nov. 13, 2024

* Turned off the page curl effect by default in paginated reading mode, as it caused problems on some devices. If you like it and it works well for you, you may turn it back on under T+/- button on top - MODE tab.
* Stability improvements. 

Ver. 32.6.3, Nov. 8, 2024

* Lowering volume of full screen ads, if they play with sound, to barely audible. If you want, you may raise the volume with the volume rocker on the device. After the ad is dismissed, the original volume is restored.
* Stability improvements. 

Ver. 32.6.0, Nov. 4, 2024

* Added page flipping and curling effect, when switching pages in paginated reading mode. If you want, turn it off under the T+/- button on top - MODE tab.

Ver. 32.4.3, Oct. 19, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.4.1, Oct. 14, 2024

* Better handling of ZIP files
* Fix for chats exported from new versions of WhatsApp.

Ver. 32.3.1, Oct. 4, 2024

* Added ability to send a multiple file selection from file browser apps to @Voice Add to List
* Fixed "send Next (or Previous) button to set bookmark" function, it was not working well for some files.

Ver. 32.2.3, Oct. 3, 2024

* Stability and text appearance improvements. 

Ver. 32.2.1, Sept. 29, 2024

* In the "Edit speech" function for RegEx replacements, RegExp capture groups like $1, $2 could be used in the replacement string. Now the syntax is extended to also use notation like $?1, $?2 etc. If the group with the number given after $? was NOT captured, the replacement string will be cut off at that place. This offers better flexibility for constructing special purpose replacements, e.g. adding SSML code to pause after each word, but not after HTML tags or inside of them.
* Small improvement for foldable fonts, when 2 column layout is selected for "landscape only" orientation
* Better text extraction from some web novel sites.
* Small change to enable JSON filters to edit text of loaded files, e.g. remove unwanted content.

Ver. 32.1.5, Sept. 6, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.1.3, Aug. 19, 2024

* Updated some translations
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 32.1.2, Aug. 14, 2024

* Small fix to make easier entering the correct endpoing for Microsoft Azure TTS service

Ver. 32.1.1, Aug. 8, 2024

* Fix for Pocket sync problem, when user has thousands of archived articles on Pocket server.

Ver. 32.1.0, Aug. 3, 2024

* When dialog voice changes are enabled and you want to define the voices that will be used in dialogs, you may now define an arbitrary name of a group of voices. It will be saved, and later, e.g. for a different ebook, you may re-use the same voice group by selecting its name.
* Speech replacements, defined under Settings - Edit speech, can be now synchronized between devices too.

Ver. 32.0.1, July 28, 2024

* Added optional synchronization between devices of the speech replacements (defined under Settings menu - Edit speech). The replacements changes made on other devices are imported only when the app starts or when you enter the "Edit speech" screen.

Ver. 32.0.0, July 25, 2024

* "Add from Dropbox" function on the Reading List screen menu, together with a new "@Voice Add to List" Chrome browser plugin.  Read more and download here.
* Sync of reading progress and bookmarks via Dropbox is now available. Enable under the Settings menu - Sync between devices. If you don't have a Dropbox account, you may create a free one at dropbox.com.
* No extra plugin app is needed now for Sync to work, it's all handled in the main @Voice app.
* Fixed "Sync articles with Pocket" function on the reading list menu, it recently stopped working due to some changes on Pocket servers.

Ver. 31.0.2, July 18, 2024

* Beta test of sync of reading progress and bookmarks via Dropbox is now available. Enable under the Settings menu - Sync between devices. If you don't have a Dropbox account, you may create a free one at dropbox.com

Ver. 31.0.1, July 14, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 31.0.0, July 6, 2024

* Due to changes in Google Drive security policies, synchronization of reading between devices no longer works. I'm working on an alternative synch method, this version udates sync setup screens to display this info and disable sync, prompts to uninstall the defunct @Voice Sync Plugin app.
* Other important functionality and stability improvements

Ver. 30.2.7, June 12, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 30.2.5, May 22, 2024

* Fix: on Edit speech screen, after pressing "Export speech files", the button to select folder for exported files was not visible.

Ver. 30.2.4, May 20, 2024

* Long press on the Paste Text button or menu function will show a prompt, if the "plain text" or HTML code should be pasted, for rare cases when the original app, from which the text was copied, places both formats in the clipboard buffer.
* The "Encoding" menu item was removed from the "Reload or clear" menu (under the button with circular arrows button). It seems no longer needed and actually stopped working. Please let me know if you need it for something, and if you do, send me the original link or file on which the encoding choice was necessary.
* Other small stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 30.2.1, May 14, 2024

* Semi-automatic work-around for loading pages that want you to verify that "you are human" - use Chrome (or similar) browser's Save function, and @Voice will automatically add them to the reading list, or read aloud at once. Enable under the Settings menu.

Ver. 30.1.6, May 8, 2024

* Fix problems with text search on some long files.

Ver. 30.1.5, Apr. 28, 2024

* Fix some small problems when loading a next chapter of an ebook, when the current one was translated.
* Disable Translate function when font "Boldify" or dialog changes are turned on (it does not work correctly in these situations)

Ver. 30.1.4, Apr. 27, 2024 (currently in Google Play)

* Under the Settings menu - Share icons, text and reading lists, added option to either open links you press in @Voice app, or in your default web browser
* Other stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 30.1.2, Apr. 18, 2024

* Fix crash on "Dialog voice changes" screen, when "Use current" definition was chosen, and the definiton that was for current article only was to be applied to the current reading list.

Ver. 30.1.1, Apr. 17, 2024

* New feature - long press on a link in @Voice will select the whole link text and copy or share the link http address.
* Fix search to the next part of long text or ebook chapter world terminate search mode.
* Fix again the problem with the option to prefer horizontal reading mode in Japanese after the app restart.

Ver. 30.1.0, Apr. 16, 2024

* If while using automatic voice changes you want to switch voices (e.g. in a book dialog a man speaks with a female voice, and a woman with male) - just press the "Back" button on the screen or your headset.
* Fix block of Play/Pause button after some full screen ads
* Fix horizontal scrolling in Japanese vertical reading mode.
* Fix: copying Japanese text should not include ruby markup.
* Fix problem with the option to prefer horizontal reading mode in Japanese after the app restart.
* Fix problems with loading full page content when the Internet connection was down.

Ver. 30.0.3, Apr. 9, 2024

* 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 "Dictionaries" that can be set up after selecting some text.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.3.4, Mar 9, 2024

* Added "Boldify" feature to show part of words in bold font, which helps read faster, at least to some people. Turn on/off under T+/- button on top - FONT tab
* Other stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.2.3, Feb 28, 2024

* Fix: sometimes web articles's title was incorrect
* Fix: some web pages loaded incorrectly

Ver 29.2.0, Feb 22, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver 29.1.11, Feb 11, 2024

* Fix problem with right-to-left text displaying incorrectly for some websites
* Fix incorrect language recognition in some HTML and ebook texts
* Fix the problem with freshly set bookmarks not being saved in some situations.
* Other stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.1.8, Feb 8, 2024

* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.1.4, Feb 2, 2024

* Voice filter changes work also for HTML pages (e.g. web novels), not only ebooks.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.1.3, Jan. 29, 2024

* Code changes make possible creation of filters for automatic voice changes for book dialogs. At this time it's a manual process of creating JSON files with RegEx expressions. Not sure if if creating user interface for it is possible. Email author if you'd like to try this.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver 29.0.25, Jan. 22, 2024

* Small change necessary for voice change filter for ebook dialogs to work.

Ver. 29.0.22, Jan. 18, 2024

* Fix: after switching from full screen mode to regular, part of the top toolbar was hidden behind the Android status bar.

Ver. 29.0.20, Jan. 17, 2024

* Corrections to Arabic text extraction from PDF files
* Fix saving translated ebook chapters.
* Other important quality improvements, better filtering of content for some sites.

Ver. 29.0.8, Jan. 5, 2024

* Fix speech test buttons not working on the Edit Speech screen.
* Prevent several crashes, mainly in C/C++ code, while reading damaged MHTML files and Word files.
* Updated Jsoup to 1.17.2-SNAPSHOT

Ver. 29.0.6, Jan. 3, 2024

* Translate menu under circular arrows button has a new option to show bi-lingual text, each sentence in original and translated language. The app will read it with correct voices. Useful when learning languages.
* Voice changes instructions now work in the free version too.
* Improved export of reading list to EPUB, original PDF view and more.

Ver. 28.2.4, Dec. 20, 2023

* Improved original PDF view, show/hide toolbars with short vertical swipes near the top or bottom of screen, auto-hides toolbars in landscape mode.

Ver. 28.2.2, Dec. 16, 2023

* Function List to EPUB on the reading list's menu has now an option to create an epub file from all the articles on the list, or only from the selected articles. This choice is shown when the reading list has visible check-boxes next to each article title to select/de-select articles.
* The List to EPUB function now creates better EPUB files, compatible with many other ebook readers, although the articles may not look so well, or occasionally break the readers, if the HTML code on the saved articles is not compatible with EPUB format specification, which is much more limited than the general HTML format for web pages.

Ver. 28.2.0, Dec. 13, 2023

* The Translate menu on the "Reload or clear" button (circular arrows on top) has a new option to load a bi-lingual text - each sentence is loaded in the original and translated languages. The order of original - translated can be reversed. Voice change annotations are added to read aloud each sentence with a correct voice for their respective languages, but the app will read with voice changes only if you have @Voice Premium License (paid license to remove ads and enable advanced features)
* Text editing filters are now applied also to ebook chapters.

Ver. 28.1.2, Dec. 1, 2023

* After swiping away the media style notification, it does not come back by itself. You must start speech in @Voice app with the Play button, or start it with a headset button, to get that notification again.

Ver. 28.1.1, Nov. 29, 2023

* Added "finish" command to voice change instructions.

Ver. 28.1.0, Nov. 24, 2023

* Fix multiple inconsistencies in text search mode.
* In Translate mode, Google Translation Widget was disappearing for some pages or books, when the "Preserve original styles" option was on.
* With android auto plugin, handles hardware media buttons Next and Previous on the car console. Requires also AvarAuto Plugin ver. 1.6 or newer.

Ver. 28.0.14, Nov. 19, 2023

* Fix: on the ebook details screen, in landscape orientation, the Read and Return buttons where not active.

Ver. 28.0.13, Nov. 16, 2023

* Added WorldWeb Audio dictionary to supported dictionaries.

Ver. 28.0.11, Nov. 12, 2023

* Relaxed network timeout for TTS, allowing to set it to as low as 1 second, or 0 to use default settings.
* Added retry count parameter for network voices. Now can be set to anything between 1 and 10, or 0 to use the default settings.
* Reading list screen has an option to show article titles truncated at the first vertical bar.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 28.0.6, Nov. 10, 2023

* Text search in case insensitive mode uses now the native search of WebView control/Google Chrome, which has relaxed rules to find e.g. some Arabic words written with or without extra diacritic marks.
* Enabled media style notifications on older versions of Android, down to 5.1. Change the style under the T+/- button on top - MODE tab.
* Export of edit speech files uses first the app file interface, press folder with cloud icon if system interface needed
* Stability improvements

Ver. 28.0.2, Nov. 7, 2023

* New media style notification on Android 13 and higher, stays on top of other notifications if app is playing, can be swiped away, prettier. Option to use old style notification is under T+/- button on top - MODE tab.
* Fix item duplication on the reading list problem, when batch-adding many files at once.
* Other important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 27.9.5, Oct. 15, 2023

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 27.9.2, Oct. 2, 2023

* Fix incorrect sentence splitting in ebooks, where an abbreviation with embedded space was met.

Ver. 27.9.1, Oct. 1, 2023

* Fix: providing your own ding.wav file in .config directory, to sound between articles on the reading list, crashed the app.

Ver. 27.9.0, Sept. 28, 2023

* Added {{@#q}} annotation to silence (quiet) arbitrary text passages, see more at https://hyperionics.com/atVoice/VoiceChanges.html. It could be used to skip reading aloud e.g. long tables, code fragments etc. Note that voice changes annotations work only when you have @Voice premium license.

Ver. 27.8.5, Sept. 21, 2023

* 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.

Ver. 27.8.4, Sept. 19, 2023

* Fix: the reading list screen was not showing selection check-boxes, when search filter was active
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 27.8.1, Sept. 10, 2023

* Improvements and fixes in the Paste Links function.

Ver. 27.8.0, Sept. 5, 2023

* On the Reading List - Paste Links screen, added option to wait XX seconds between downloading files, for the sites that limit the download rate.

Ver. 27.7.1, Aug. 27, 2023

* Updated to support @Voice Auto Plugin 

Ver. 27.6.6, Aug. 8, 2023

* Small change to load faster certain HTML files saved to @Voice reading list.

Ver. 27.6.5, July 23, 2023

* 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, July 13, 2023

* Stability and usability fixes

Ver. 27.6.0, June 8, 2023

* 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.

Ver. 27.5.13, June 1, 2023

* Stability and usability fixes

Ver. 27.5.10, May 30, 2023

* Fix issue with sorting some file lists by file name.
* Fix - sometimes was repeating a sentence in ebooks.

Ver. 27.5.7, May 25, 2023

* Fix - some ebooks read only headings, not text.
* Fix select all/none on the file selector.

Ver. 27.5.5, May 22, 2023

* Better handle voice change annotations in EPUBs.
* Fix incorrect bookmarks sort after adding a new bookmark.
* Fix: setting bookmarks with headset button did not work for PDF files extracted to HTML format.
* Fix: sometimes stops reading 1 minute after notification sound.

Ver. 27.5.0, May 9, 2023

* Added "List to EPUB" function on the reading list menu. Converts only HTML files found on the reding list, ignores all others

Ver. 27.4.12, May 3, 2023

* Voice change annotations within HTML or EPUB files may be hidden inside comments <!--{{@...}}-->, to make the text display correctly in other book readers and still change voices when reading aloud with @Voice app.
* Fix Amazon Polly cloud TTS access.

Ver. 27.4.10, May 2, 2023

* Fix - the serial download to the reading list with "follow next links" option, was not working if the "Follow Next links..." option was also turned on under the Settings menu - Share icons, text and reading lists.

Ver. 27.4.5, Apr. 25, 2023

* Improved handling for following "next page" link for downloading serial articles, e.g. web novel chapters
* Added Vietnamese translation - thank you, Quảng!

Ver. 27.4.2, Apr. 13, 2023

* On the Reading List - Paste links menu, added option "Download a series of articles following the NEXT links in them". Just paste the link to the first article or novel chapter, and it sill download them to the end or until you manually cancel.

Ver. 27.3.8, March 29, 2023

* 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. 27.3.5, March 26, 2023

* Articles and documents added to the reading list have now better, more complete titles. The file name and path are available in Details view.
* For PDF pages scanned from paper at an angle (skewed), @Voice straigthem the image before performing OCR for better text quality
* Reading list - Paste links - read links from a webpage, sometimes the titles of articles were encoded (quoted printable) - now the app decodes them to show the correct titles on the reading list.
* Stability and usability fixes

Ver. 27.2.6, March 12, 2023

* Added the markdown (.md) format to supported files. The app will read it as plain text, including all markup characters, so it may requires defining some speech replacements.
* Stability and usability fixes, including translations.

Ver. 27.2.5, March 8, 2023

* Stability and usability fixes, including translations.

Ver. 27.2.4, March 4, 2023

* Added ability to set audio sampling rate (16000, 24000, 48000) to the cloud TTS voices that support such settings (Azure and Google Cloud voices)

* Stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.2.3, Feb. 21, 2023

* Text search function under the "Edit text" screen now offers case sensitive and insensitive search, whole words only option and RegEx.
* The article info panel, shown when you swipe down from the top toolbar of @Voice icons, lets you now edit the "Original URL" field, and upon pressing Enter or the "go" button, the app loads a new article from the address you entered.
* On the "Page Look" screen (T+/- icon on top) - FONT tab - the "Font" selection box now offers all the fonts found in the Android system font folder. Depending on your phone make and model, you may now find there more fonts than before.
* Also available an option to load fonts from files (TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2)
* Added timeout option to cloud voices configuration - set a longer timeout than the default 15 seconds, when connection breaks too often.
* Fix: text filters were not applied.

Ver. 27.1.9, Feb. 4, 2023

* Improve sizing and layout of images, to fit the screen or column size and center them horizontally.
* Stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.1.6, Jan. 29, 2023

* Auto-detects Cloudflare security messages and loads with JavaScript enabled
* Stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.16, Jan. 10, 2023

* Automatically resume reading aloud, if interrupted by a screen reader (TalkBack) saying e.g. "Screen off" with the same TTS voice as @Voice app is using.
* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.12, Dec. 19, 2022

* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.9, Dec. 12, 2022

* Fix editing styles of ebook chapters.
* Fix PDF OCR operation run in background, was not loading text.
* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.2, Dec. 5, 2022

* Fix: editing text from HTML/EPUB files with text extracted from PDFs.
* EBooks reading list is now available on the menu and can be sorted the way user pefers.
* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.1, Dec. 4, 2022

* Fix: editing text from an empty screen (no text loaded) would not save the edits.
* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 27.0.0, Dec. 1, 2022

* New improved text editor - full screen editing of visible text or HTML source code.
* Important stability and usability fixes.

Ver. 26.10.20, Nov. 23, 2022

* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.10.19, Nov. 20, 2022

* Fix for "Paste links" function, when downloading a long list and Skip or Cancel was pressed, in some cases was hanging indefinitely on the aborted article download.

Ver. 26.10.18, Nov. 14, 2022

* Added new sort option to Reading List screen: "Unsorted or manual". Each list now remembers its own sort order, and if it's anything else than "unsorted", and you drag/drop items to change the order on the list manually, the sort option for this list is automatically set to "Unsorted or manual".

Ver. 26.10.17, Nov. 12, 2022

* Added intents for controlling @Voice from other apps, e.g. Tasker, use package name "com.hyperionics.avar"
- "com.hyperionics.avar.IS_SPEAKING" replies with boolean extra "IS_SPEAKING"
- "com.hyperionics.avar.SPEECH_START" may be sent to @Voice to start speech. Also @Voice sends this as a broadcast intent when speech started.
- "com.hyperionics.avar.SPEECH_STOP" may be sent to @Voice to stop speech. Also @Voice sends this as a broadcast intent when speech stopped.
- "com.hyperionics.avar.SPEECH_TOGGLE" may be sent to @Voice to toggle speech.

Ver. 26.10.13, Nov. 7, 2022

* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.10.9, Oct. 30, 2022

* Removed completely Roman number processing. It's impossible to make it work right, know what is a Roman number, what is an abbreviation or just a normal word.

Ver. 26.10.7, Oct. 29, 2022

* Added Roman numbers processing 
* Stability and usability improvements

 Ver. 26.9.9, Oct. 26, 2022

* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.9.5, Oct. 21, 2022

* Restored forward/reverse buttons on lock screen on Android 11+
* Paste links function on the Reading List screen now handles also RSS feed links
* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.8.5, Oct. 9, 2022

* The "Record sound file" has a new option to announce progress of recording in a voice, every specified number of seconds. Could be used to monitor recording progress with screen off, or by blind users.
* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.7.1, Sept. 14, 2022

* Stability and usability improvements

 Ver. 26.7.0, Sept. 13, 2022

* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.6.6, Aug. 31, 2022

* Another correction to handle updated Google Translate app, to make the popup window work.
* Other usability and stability improvements.

Ver. 26.6.4, Aug. 25, 2022

* Added Translate function to "Reload or clear" menu (circular arrows button)
* Stability and usability improvements

Ver. 26.5.1, Aug. 7, 2022

* Fix: after the last update of Google Translate app, the option to show the treanslation in a popup window stopped working.

Ver. 26.5.0, July 29, 2022

* Added Search button to the Settings menu, to quickly find the necessary settings. Just press the magnifying glass icon, then start typing.

Ver. 26.4.7, July 22, 2022

Minor corrections:
* Save the original URL address with a server error response, to enable "reload"
* Strip extra URL parameters added by the server redirect response, when saving the original URL

Ver. 26.4.5, July 19, 2022

* Improvements for showing correctly match equations, written with MathJax code.
* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.3.9, Jun 19, 2022

* Fix: if play low volume sound to prevent freading fade in/out for each sentence was enabled, the sound would not stop by itself when the article ends and there is nothing else to play.

Ver. 26.3.8, Jun 4, 2022

* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.3.5, May 15, 2022

* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.3.4, May 10, 2022

* Fix: while listening and watching the original PDF, the yellow highlight was obscuring the text on older versions of Android.
* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.3.0, May 2 2022

* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.2.9, Apr. 29 2022

* Fix: if PDF files were added to any reading list, reading aloud would not advance to the next article on the list, after finishing a PDF.

Ver. 26.2.8, Apr. 25 2022

* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.2.3, Apr. 18 2022

* Improved the way some tables, and long, unbroken strings of characters are displayed on @Voice's screen.
* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.1.6, Apr. 10 2022

* Added Share button to the screen that appears when recording a sound file is finished.
* Added Hungarian UI translation - thank you, Sancho!
* Important stability and usability improvements.

Ver. 26.0.3, Apr. 7 2022

* New  feature: if you open a PDF and extract text to HTML format, press the round PDF button at bottom-left to look at the original PDF pages while the app is reading aloud. Press the Back button on your phone/tablet to return from PDF to normal view anytime.
* Turkish translations reviewed and corrected, thank you, Ferhat!

Ver. 25.7.1, March 31 2022

* Stability and qualtiy improvements.

Ver. 25.6.13, March 27 2022

* Stability and qualtiy improvements.

Ver. 25.6.6, March 16, 20202

* Improvements in recording to sound files function
* Voice change instructions are handled in a more efficient way.

Ver. 25.6.2, March 11, 20202

* Fix: when switching TTS engine with voice change instructions, the sentence pause was ignored
* Fix: when loading a next part of a long text file, or the next ebook chapter, the voice definitions for voice changes, defined in the first part, were forgotten.

Ver. 25.6.1, March 5, 20202

* Option to save web pages added to the 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.
* Long press on the bookmark button in floating toolbar lets you select color first for the new bookmark.
* 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
* Other important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 25.4.9, Feb. 17, 20202

* HTML files extracted from MHTML archives have now the origina URL information added on top of the index.html, so that content filter that relay on origin URL could work 
* Stability and usability fixes

Ver. 25.4.7, Feb. 12, 20202

* Accepting user added security certificates for opening web articles
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.4.6, Jan. 26, 20202

* Fix sleep timer - when reset timer on shake was enabled, and reading aloud was manually paused, shaking the phone was resuming speech.
* Fix - on some phones changing the app interface language under the Settings menu caused erratic behavior on app start.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 25.4.4, Jan. 24, 20202

* Added ability to set @Voice preferences, particuarly "hidden" options that are not available directly in the app for changing, with JSON files. This is meant mainly for support, to send such configuration .json files to the user by email, to change some of these "hidden" options. Currently the only hidden option is "sleepVolFade", which is default 'true', but can be set to 'false', which prevents volume fade before the sleep timer stops reading aloud.

Ver. 25.4.3, Jan. 23, 20202

* Added some controls from an external keyboard, if you have such keyboard connected to your phone or tablet:
   - Down and up arrows - scroll screen up or down
   - Left and right arrows - jump to the previous/next sentence
   - Enter key - pause/resume reading aloud
   - Space or page down key - scroll to the next page
   - Page up key - scroll to the previous page
   - T letter key - open Google Translate on the currently highlighted sentence.

Ver. 25.4.2, Jan. 17, 20202

* 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. .

Ver. 25.4.0, Jan. 15, 20202

* Sleep timer will now lower volume in the last 15 seconds to signal expiring timer. Also it will wait additional 1 minute without exiting the app, after reading is stopped. During that time you may wake it by shaking the device or pressing Play button.
* Fix for importing FB2 ebooks from Google Drive
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.3.8, Jan. 7, 20202

* 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.

Ver. 25.3.2, Dec. 31, 20201

* Added option to restart sleep timer on device shakes
* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.2.7, Dec. 20, 20201

* Permitting clear text traffic again, too many complaints from the users, when it's limited to https only.
* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.2.4, Dec. 17, 20201

* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.1.7, Dec. 8, 20201

* Added new option under Speech settings - AUDIO tab to play soft sound while reading, to prevent sound fading out for each sentence on some external speakers or headsets.
* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.1.1, Dec. 3, 20201

* No more OCR on battery for more than 2 pages, otherwise there are too many problems.
* Important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 25.0.5, Nov. 28, 20201

* Added synchronization of reading position AND BOOKMARKS between devices, through the user's Google Drive. Can be enabled under the Settings menu.
* Also changed the default color scheme of @Voice controls, but it's easy to set them to the old scheme or anything else you like.

Ver. 24.4.0, Nov. 17, 20201

* Added synchronization of reading position between devices, through the user's Google Drive. Can be enabled under the Settings menu.

Ver. 24.3.3, Nov. 7, 20201

* Fix some Application Not Responding (ANR) errors

Ver. 24.3.1, Oct. 27, 2021

* Fixes to make the app work better Android TV and on Onyx e-paper devices.

Ver. 24.2.10, Oct. 24, 2021

* Fix - in some situations the same full screen app was shown over and over.
* Fix - adding files to the Reading list from Google Drive would not work correctly, if two or more files had the same name.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.2.9, Oct. 19, 2021

* Reading list - long press on up or down arrow button at the bottom bar to move selected article to the start or end of the list.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.2.4, Oct. 11, 2021

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.2.1, Oct. 8, 2021

* Fix for opening PDF files from the Reading list
* Fix: prevent ads from showing when sharing articles to @Voice Reading list, or when opening the app when screen reader (e.g. TalkBack) is active
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.1.12, Oct. 5, 2021

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.1.10, Oct. 1, 2021

* Added Samsung Dictionary to the dictionary choices, but it appears only on Samsung devices (the Samsung Dictionary app won't work on any other devices).
* Improved support for Android 12 on Samsung devices
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.1.4, Sep. 14, 2021

* Reading list screen has now selection check-boxes for moving, copying or deleting articles in bulk
* Other stability improvements

Ver. 24.0.11, Sep. 3, 2021

* Fix: full screen ads should not appear when a screen reader (TalkBack or other) is active
* Other stability improvements

Ver. 24.0.8, Aug. 30, 2021

* Fix - Sharing an article, document or book as a file did not work.
* Other important stability improvements

Ver. 24.0.7, Aug. 27, 2021

* App compiled to new Google requirements (API 30), asks the user for permission to "manage all files". It's optional, but without it easy access to files outside of the app private folder is very inconvenient, and many files need to be duplicated in app folder to open them.
* Fix: would not read next article on reading list, if repeating sentences was turned on.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 24.0.4, Aug. 25, 2021

* Work-around Google Translate v6 bug when opening it in split screen mode.

Ver. 24.0.3, Aug. 23, 2021

* After selecting text, Google Translate can appear in a popup window.
* Volume rocker can be set to jump sentences.

Ver. 24.0.0, Aug. 20, 2021

* The voice definitions for voice changes can now optionally contain # character followed by instructions to set the voice speed, pitch and volume. Example below - Angel is a Spanish voice definition accepted by older versions of @Voice, AngelFast is a new definition with voice control instructions.

{{@+Angel=com.google.android.tts, es_ES, es-es-x-eed-local}}
{{@+AngelFast=com.google.android.tts, es_ES, es-es-x-eed-local#s=1.3,p=1.4,v=0.5}}

Ver. 23.4.10, Aug. 13, 2021

* "clearCookies" in web site filters handled at the host level now, not page level
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 23.4.3, Jul. 17, 2021

* 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, Jul. 10, 2021

* 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. 23.3.15, June 27, 2021

* Fix a problem with the premium license on a few devices
* Stability and performance improvements

 Ver. 23.3.12, June 22, 2021

* Stability and performance improvements

 Ver. 23.3.11, June 15, 2021

* Added option to follow or not links, when opening and pasting a short text containing a link. See Settings menu - Share icons, text and reading list.
* Fixed import of Evernote notes, possibly from other sites that have important contents inside iframes
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 23.3.5, June 5, 2021

* 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 23.3.0, May 29, 2021

Ver 23.2.10, May 22, 2021

Ver 23.2.9, May 20, 2021

Ver 23.2.3, May 9, 2021

Ver. 23.1.6, Apr. 29, 2021

* Fix: create folder on file browsing screens was not working
* Other rare crash fixes

Ver. 23.1.5, Apr. 27, 2021

* Added Amazon Polly and Microsoft Azure cloud voices support (paid services by Amazon and Microsoft)
* Fix for opening MHTML files generated by MS Word
* Other small changes, stability and performance improvements

Ver. 23.0.8, Apr. 10, 2021

* 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, Mar. 22, 2021

* 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. 22.8.4, Mar. 14, 2021

* Stability and performance improvements
* with DexProtector

 Ver. 22.8.0, Mar. 5, 2021

* 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, Lukas!
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 22.7.4, Feb. 21, 2021

* 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. Release notes provided for 12 of 12 languages
* Additiuonal option on "Record sound file" screen, to slow down recording to the rate of speech, if using cloud voices (i.e. for now only Google WaveNet or Standard cloud voices). Otherwise, if recording speed is too fast, the server may issue "too many requests" error and refuse further service.

Ver. 22.6.7, Jan. 30, 2021

* Quality and performance improveents

Ver. 22.6.2, Jan. 22, 2021

* Added "Reset progress" function to the Reading list menu
* Fix opening PDF files from the reading list

Ver. 22.6.0, Jan. 18, 2021

* Generate speech for 2 sentences ahead is now active only when using Google cloud voices. For local voices only 1 sentence ahead is generated.
* Improved message about image-only PDFs, instructing the user how to enable OCR.
* Important quality and performance improvements

Ver. 22.5.8, Jan. 11, 2021

* Improved reading with Google cloud voices - shorter pauses between paragraphs and more reliable connection
* Fix problem with the Open button sometimes closing instantly and re-opening the same file
* Important quality and performance improvements

Ver. 22.5.5, Jan. 9, 2021

* Important quality and performance improvements

Ver. 22.5.3, Jan. 6, 2021

* Important quality and performance improvements

Ver. 22.5.1, Dec. 29, 2020

* 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. 22.4.12, Dec. 19, 2020

* Fix: Chinese language selection was not available on Google Cloud voices screen.

Ver. 22.4.10, Dec. 15, 2020

* Correct handling of <pre> tags in web pages
* Handle MathJax (math equations) in web pages
* Other quality improvements

Ver. 22.4.5, Dec. 7, 2020

* Added "clearCookies" boolean argument handling for filter files

Ver. 22.4.4, Dec. 5, 2020

* Fix for Arabic text import from PDF
* Fix article duplication on reading lists when importing from Google Drive
* Other quality and performance improvements.

Ver. 22.4.1, Dec. 3, 2020

* Fix for a rare error in exporting bookmarks

Ver. 22.4.0, Nov. 29, 2020

* When manually cropping a PDF for text extraction, long-press defined region to change its type - the default is Text, but can be change to Image (to include selected page area as an image in the extracted HTML, or to 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, Nov. 12, 2020

* "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, Nov. 6, 2020

* 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, Oct. 30, 2020

* 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.
* Many stability and performance improvements

Ver. 22.1.5, Oct. 18, 2020

Ver. 22.1.4, Oct. 14, 2020

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 22.0.9, Oct. 6, 2020

* Added Chinese - Traditional user interface translation
* A few rare crashes fixed.

Ver. 22.0.5, Oct. 3, 2020

* 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, Sept. 16 2020

Ver. 21.0.35, Sept. 11 2020

Ver. 21.0.31, Sept. 5, 2020

Ver. 21.0.29, Sept. 2, 2020

Ver. 20.2.19, Aug. 15, 2020

* Fix: Import speech replacement file from Download directory or clouds did not work
* Improvement in cropping some PDF files

Ver. 20.2.18, Aug. 11, 2020

* Improved text extraction from some PDF files
* Stability and code quality improvements.

Ver. 20.2.16, Aug. 9, 2020

* Improved text extraction from some web sites
* Long reading lists can now be scrolled very fast with the blue circle at the right margin, that appears as soon as you scroll the list a little bit.

Ver. 20.2.12, Jul 29, 2020

* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 20.2.10, Jul 26, 2020

* Small improvements in PDF text extraction
* Added selections to choose automatically reading direction, or force left-to-right or right-to-left reading direction
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 20.2.4, Jul 16, 2020

* Added Search button on top of Reading List screen. Currently it searches file names present on the currently opened list. Will consider search through all lists and adding search buttons to the file open screens in the future.

Ver. 20.1.22, Jul 9, 2020

* Fix for changing between Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese voices

Ver. 20.1.19, Jul 6, 2020

* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 20.1.15, June 30, 2020

* Fix: Rel. 20.1.14 was crashing on startup on certain LG and Samsung phones

Ver. 20.1.14, June 28, 2020

* When following links to download multiple part of split articles, will now also download correctly pages that require JavaScript support
* Backup/Restore functions under @Voice Settings menu will now also save and restore all user options and preferences
* Stability improvements

Ver. 20.1.10, June 17, 2020

* Fix: for some PDF files, lines were not joined correctly into paragraphs

Ver. 20.1.9, June 14, 2020

* Compatible with Android 11 beta 1 release
* Disabled full screen reading mode when a screen reader like TalkBack is in use, as it was very confusing in this situation
* When exporting bookmarks from ebook formats (or PDFs extracted to HTML/EPUB format), now the page on which the bookmark was placed is listed in the exported file
* Fix: some files with name extension in upper case, like .PDF instead .pdf, were not opening correctly.

Ver. 20.1.5, June 7, 2020

* 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. 20.0.7, June 1, 2020

* Fix: entering a very long file name in "Save" function (like 200 characters or more) would crash the app.

Ver. 20.0.6, May 29, 2020

* 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, May 25, 2020

* 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. 20.0.0, May 20, 2020

Ver. 19.8.0, May 18, 2020

* ALERT - BETA TESTERS FEEDBACK NEEDED! Google finally relented and is now permiting standard file access for reading files in Android 11 and beyond. So I'm largely giving up on their "Scoped Storage" file access, which was a disaster, and re-worked the app again to use regular files access. Please test how opening files works now, send me feedback if it's any better, and of course send me all the bugs you notice! Thanks!

Ver. 19.7.5, May 12, 2020

* Important fix: sometimes would skip entire chapter when reading aloud an ebook
* The action items that other apps add to the menu, which appears when you select some text in any app, are now also available when you press the 3 vertical dots in @Voice toolbar appearing upon text selection. For example, some 3rd party dictionary app, which we may have not included into our "Dictionary" button, may add a "Dictionary" action there, and you may now access it easily from @Voice screen.
* Stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 19.7 , May 7, 2020

* 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 , Apr. 19, 2020

* 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 , March 29, 2020

* Important stability and performance improvements

Ver. 19.4 , March 14, 2020

Ver. 19.3 Feb. 15, 2020

* 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 Feb. 1, 2020

* Added new option to "Delay before pausing speech, when other sounds are played...", can be now set to up to 5 seconds. This may help to avoid pausing reading aloud on short notification sounds for example.
* Fix: some EPUB ebook files were not opening correctly.

Ver. 19.1 Jan. 18, 2020

* 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. 18.2.0 Nov. 16, 2019

* Fix: wired.com web site did not allow login from "Reload from browser..." command. May fix other sites using DOM Storage API too.
* The "Open" screen in "Browse by file type" mode now shows the full file name, does not truncate it to fit into one line.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 18.1.6 Nov. 9, 2019

* Added support for .mhtml (or .mht) file format, which is used by Chrome browser on Android when you press the Download page button on its menu
* More improvements to PDF text extraction, trying to avoid unnecessary letters separation in some documents.

Ver. 18.1.0 Nov. 3, 2019

* Epub books now open about 2x faster
* Fixed @Voice home screen widget, now it works directly after a reboot too, and opens @Voice app screen if you tap the title in it.
* Improved content filtering for some web site, e.g. reddit.com
* Correct PDF text extraction, from some files characters were extracted in wrong order
* Other stability and performance improvements

Ver. 18.0 Oct. 25, 2019

* Improved text extraction for PDF files written in Right-to-Left scripts (Arabic, Hebrew...)
* Fixed text selection for Right-to-Left scripts
* Work-around implemented for a crash on many Android 5.0 and 5.1 Lollipop devices (caused by a bug in Google appcompat libraries)
* 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 Oct. 6, 2019

* 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 Sept. 18, 2019

* Removed ability to swipe off @Voice notification - it was causing problems on some devices. Use the X button at notification right to remove it if necessary
* Reading list improvement - you may change the order of articles with finger swiping, holding the icon at right of each list item
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 17.4.6 Sept. 13, 2019

* @Voice notification can now be swiped out or closed with CLEAR ALL button, if the app is not reading aloud.
* Open button in the default "Browse by file type" mode now scans whole storage for files to open, on the first use and once per week, also has a "Scan whole storage" button on top to repeat the search for files anytime.
* Fix problem with "Speak text copied to clipboard" function not working on some devices.
* Other important stability and performance improvements.

Ver. 17.4 Sept. 2, 2019

* 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 Aug. 17, 2019

* @Voice now reacts to the Export chat function in WhatsApp, you may open a chat for reading aloud.
* Implementing a work-around for a bug in Android WebView control/Google Chrome browser, which crashes the app for about 2% of users. Google Chrome team says they are working on fixing this, but no progress for several weeks. Maybe this work-around will work...
* Fix: sentence highlight on double-tap or long press, or instant translate on tap, did not work in split screen mode, when @Voice was at right
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 17.2, Jul. 12, 2019

* 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, June 27, 2019

* 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)
* Improved language detection for some web sites
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 17.0, June 16, 2019

* 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, May 25, 2019

* Improvements for text extraction from quora.com and other sites
* New option under Speech settings - Pauses tab, to pause after each article for specified time or indefinitely
* New option to hide disabled items on Edit speech menu.
* Premium license only: speech replacements under Edit speech now can have tags, one may enable/disable items by tags.

Ver. 16.8, May 13, 2019

* Better text filtering for CNN and some other sites
* 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. 16.7.8, May 4, 2019

* Fix for reading aloud Scientific American articles
* Better handling of ebook files with very long HTML content inside
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.7, Apr. 19, 2019

*Custom content filters may be now easily installed from email attachments, local files or web links
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.6, Apr. 5, 2019

* New option under Edit Speech screen to insert new replacement at the current position
* Stability and performance improvements, Android Q Beta 2 compatible.

Ver. 16.5, March 16, 2019

* First release compatible with Android Q beta
* The "Repeat" button at the bottom, if enabled, has now an extra option to stop reading at the end of current article (do not continue to the next article on the reading list)
* Trying to fix TalkBack saying repeatedly "Service @Voice" on some phones. If you experienced this problem before, please tell me if this update fixes it for you.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.4, March 16, 2019

* 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, Feb. 23, 2019

* Improved content filtering for some web sites
* Better abbreviation handling
* The app now asks for Storage access only when the user tries to open a file from outside of @Voice private directory, not on app startup
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.2, Feb. 14, 2019

* Better help in installing new Text-to-speech engines and voices.

Ver. 16.1, Feb. 4, 2019

* New bookmarking - arbitrary selection may be bookmarked now. Bookmarks can be exported to a text file with the complete text of the bookmarked range, and imported back if needed.
* New options in Speech settings: START tab - choose to start reading from top of screen, if last read aloud position is behind, and HEADSET tab - ignore Next/Previous (or FF/Rewind) buttons from headset when reading is paused. Should help for problems with certain car stereos. 
* Faster loading of ebook chapters

Ver. 15.9, Jan. 10, 2019

* 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, Dec. 1, 2018

* @Voice has now a "Reload" button on article pages that did not download.
* Reload is also found on "Reload or clear" menu (circular arrows) for any HTML article
* If error articles were added to a reading list, you may now use "Reload error articles" on the menu to try to reload them.
* Added "Reload all articles" to the reading list menu, to reload all HTML articles. If only some need reloading, prepare first a smaller reading list with them, then use this function.

Ver. 15.7, Nov. 15, 2018

* Modified handling of very long web pages and HTML files, trying to save memory and prevent some out-of-memory crashes.
* 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 the old APKs for now, which works fine.

Ver. 15.6

* 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

* 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, e.g. "Article2" will be now before "Article11", not after it.
* Repeat button at bottom is hidden by default, enable it under Screen settings
* Bug fixes

Ver. 15.3

Ver. 15.2, Aug. 27, 2018

* 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, Aug. 12, 2018

* 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, Aug. 5, 2018

* 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, Jul. 3, 2018

* 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

Version 14.2, May 22, 2018

* Added @Voice Network Library Plugin to download books from online book catalogs published in OPDS format.
* When running under TalkBack, full screen ads are no longer shown to avoid user confusion.

Version 14.1, May 8, 2018

* Fix - working around a bug in newest Android WebView control, hanging or crashing the app under TalkBack.

Version 14.0, April 14, 2018

* 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

Version 13.3, April 6, 2018

* 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

Version 13.2, April 1, 2018

Version 13.1, March 16, 2018

Version 13.0.2, March 8, 2018

Version 13.0, March 5, 2018

• Added option to start/stop speech when shaking device horizontally. Enable under Settings - Speech settings.
• Several important bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 12.09, Feb. 27, 2018

• Improved filtering for Wikipedia and time.com articles
• Made show images for web articles the default and no longer experimental
• Fix: if article added with file name same as read before and deleted, the progress would be wrong
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.08, Feb. 19, 2018

• 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

Version 12.07, Feb. 11, 2018

• 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
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.06, Feb. 4, 2018

• 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

Version 12.05, Jan. 20, 2018

• 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.

Version 12.04, Jan. 9, 2018

• 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...
• Bug fixes

Version 12.02, Dec. 17, 2017

• 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

Version 12.01.05, Dec. 9, 2017

More 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)
• Small change to make Smart Headset Assistant app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yado.sbh2) work better with @Voice
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.00.07, Nov. 23, 2017

• Fix: on small screens using Huge font, text size controls were inaccessible
• Fix: RegExg case-insensitive replacement option (?i) worked only on Latin letters

Version 12.00.04, Nov. 19, 2017

• Fix: some ebooks would not read aloud, instead skip fast to the very end

Version 12.00.03, Nov. 17, 2017

• Added setting to change fonts between the document default, serif and sans-serif
• Better performance when changing styles (line spacing, fonts)

Version 11.05.00, Nov. 2, 2017

• Fix: some articles shared from Flipboard did not show 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.

Version 11.04.08, Oct. 25, 2017

• Splitting very long HTML files (about 0.5 MB) into smaller pieces for faster loading and to avoid out of memory errors
• Fix reading progress not updated to 100% after finished listening to an article from a reading list
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 11.04, Oct. 1, 2017

• Bug fixes and performance improvements
• Updated translations

Version 11.03.02, Sept. 24, 2017

• 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 was not working for a few users.

Version 11.02.03, Sept. 19, 2017

• 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

Version 11.01.05, Sept. 9, 2017

• 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.

Version 11.00.06, Sept. 2, 2017

• Fix for media button press on headsets problem on Android 8 "Oreo"
• Updated translations
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 11.00.04, Aug. 26, 2017

• Full sync between devices via Google Drive, availabe on main menu. Requires installing @Voice Sync Plugin from Google Play.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 10.15.00, June 15, 2017

•  Notification change: changed the "Stop" button, which really exits @Voice app completely, to a more standard X in top right corner.
• Where the old Stop button was, added a button to toggle @Voice Floating Buton
• Trying to fix sync loss between highlight and spoken text, when clicking fast forward/reverse buttons
• If file was modified since last read, reset reading position to start
• Performance improvements and bug fixes

Version 10.13.03, May 24, 2017

• Article/ebook states database (e.g. reading positions) moved to Android SQLite storage for better security
• Optimizations in text replacement for speech code, some people try to replace several thousands of words now in each sentence, so it must be as fast as possible.
• Other performance improvements and bug fixes.

Version 10.12.08, May 13, 2017

• Export bookmarks function added to Bookmarks screen menu. Exports marked sentences in TXT format.
• Added option to select external SD card on the menu of file open/save and select folder screens
• Fix some more black text on black background screens in night mode under Android 7
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 10.12.05b, May 6, 2017

• Fix: Share Add to List while @Voice was reading aloud something else, would stop speech.
• Fix: When sharing article from Google Play Newsstand, we can no longer extract article text. Showing instead an instruction text on the alternative
• Fix: Small problems with old MS Word 97 - 2003 DOC files text import corrected
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 10.12.04, May 4, 2017

• Fix: with ebook opened, and using Share - to add to list, the article content was not filtered, showing a lot of junk from the web page
• Accessibility - when reading aloud is interrupted by TalkBack, will now auto-resume after a few seconds
• Selection - long press again when in selection mode to select entire sentence
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Version 10.12.02, May 1, 2017

• Fix: reading aloud stopped after pressing "Back" button to close @Voice screen, when next part of ebook or long text was loaded.
• Fix wrong font color on Setup screen in night mode
• Fix issue with "Clear content" opening again the cleared text
• Premium/No Ads license only: added desktop widget
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 10.11.00, Apr. 21, 2017

• Accessibility improvements:
  * No longer locks on very long content
  * Scroll content announces sentence number, read aloud resumes from that sentence
  * Two finger short horizontal swipes skip sentence forward or back
  * Other optimizations for TalkBack
• Fix for some FB2 ebook files not loading
• Other rare bug fixes

Version 10.10.16, Apr. 5, 2017

• For EPUB files that provide page numbers navigation, added "Pages" tab to TOC screen.
• Fix for sentence splitting in some ebooks that despite declaring UTF-8 encoding, still use a lot of HTML letter codes
• Fix for speech - highlight sync problem on some sites with bugs in HTML code, e.g. au.news.yahoo.com
• Fix for the graphics on Play/Pause button getting incorrect when pressing back/forward button white speaking
• Fix for speech not starting when using Share - Start talking in background option
• Fix for sharing articles from Investing.com app
• Added warning about discontinue of Dropbox sync soon, due to changes that Dropbox company introduces in their SDK.

Version 10.10.9 released March. 16, 2017

• Fix: when speech stopped with sleep timer function, reading position was lost.
• Fix: when stopped with sleep timer and screen off, would sometimes resume speech after a few seconds.
• Fix: with "Start talking at once" option selected, when starting a new article or chapter, would repeat the first sentence twice, then highlight out of sync with speech.

Version 10.10.4 released March. 10, 2017

• Selecting ebook chapter from TOC sets the first sentence of the new chapter as speech start
• Fixed issue with incorrect layouts and notification on systems with left-to-right language
• Updated translations

Version 10.10.3 released March. 8, 2017

• Sort options added to the Reading List screen, to sort alphabetically, by file size or date, ascending or descending.
• New file "Open" screen - flat list of ebook and article files in known folders. Can switch to the old Browse by folders screen from the menu.
• Code changes to avoid occasional position loss
• New option on Page look for horizontal scrolling to ignore horizontal swipes (if e.g. you like to follow text with your finger while reading)
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 9.9.8 released Feb. 14, 2017

• Better handling of audio and video tags in epub files
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 9.9.7 released Feb. 5, 2017

•  The list of reading lists is now sorted alphabetically, instead of being in random order (several users asked for this change)

Version 9.9.4 released Jan. 29, 2017

•  Fix crash when reading a new FB2 file for the first time
• Touching right edge during vertical scrolling won't randomly jump to a different place anymore
• Will show a hint on how to start reading from any place in the text, when scrolling vertically (can be turned off)
• Many other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 9.9.3 released Jan. 24, 2017

• Voice Selector list is sorted now by country, quality, name
• In German texts numbers followed by a dot don't end sentence now.
• Many important bug fixes and performance

Version 9.9.1 released Jan. 18, 2017

• Fix for some Share ops with Google Play app link showing app description instead of text
• Updated translations
•  Many other bug fixes and performance improvements  

Version 9.8.4 released Jan. 12, 2017

•  Sync with Google Drive is now done from a separate plugin app, so the main @Voice app does not require identity and contacts permissions anymore.
•  Flip pages with volume keys, when reading from screen, speech off
•  Fix for PDF containing randomly inserted 0-width spaces
• Performance improvements and bug fixes

Version 9.7.3 released Dec. 20, 2016

•  Android 6 and up: trying to resume speech, if interrupted by TalkBack or other voice announcement.
• Tweaks in PDF text extraction code to better connect text into paragraphs. Need input on how well/bad it works, and if bad - PDF files sent to me for debugging...
• Fix - would not read aloud from epub files or other HTML sources if the source file did not have <body> tag.

Version 9.6.8 released Dec. 15, 2016

•  Fix - on small screens the menu button on top right could be inaccessible
•  Fix - HTML tags appearing in the notification title for ebooks

Version 9.6.7 released Dec. 12, 2016

• Bug fix in opening some EPUB files.

Version 9.6.6 released Dec. 10, 2016

• Skipping reading aloud content marked as "non-linear" in ebooks
•  Fixed a few rare bugs reported since v.9.6.5 release.

Version 9.6.5 released Dec. 7, 2016

• Implemented back/forward navigation (press menu button to find arrow keys). Note, they will start working if you navigate from the current article or chapter elsewhere, e.g. to the next article/chapter, jump to read a footnote etc.
• Better handling of EPUB3 ebooks with one huge internal HTML file, which previously could crash the app or make it load text for a very long time.
• Accessibility improvements for visually impaired users.
• Fix a problem with sharing articles to @Voice from New York Times web site or app.
• Many internal changes to make things run smoother and faster, use less memory.
• Many bug fixes.

Version 9.5.2 released Nov. 17, 2016

• Updated to display correctly the table of content (TOC) for EPUB 3 files
• Several small bug fixes

Version 9.5.0 released Nov. 10, 2016

• Support for Bookshare.org - find any book in their catalog, then "Share" the book page to @Voice, and it will offer to download it.
• Google Drive support will now download any article file we can read from @Voice folder on Google drive.
• Sorting our the characters in right-to-left scripts (Hebrew, Arabic) into correct order, when decoding PDF files. Need input on how this works.
• Trying to prevent occasional loss of the read place and bookmarks
• Many important bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 4.7.4, 2014-03-17
* Performance improvements and bug fixes

v. 4.7.3, 2014-03-15
* New on Read List menu: "Delete articles not on lists."

v. 4.7.1, 2014-03-14
* New "Page Look" options on the menu - Day and Night themes, keep original page colors or set custom color.
* New option under "Page Look" menu - Preserve styles, e.g. font shape & sizes etc.
* Correctly shows tables
* Reload from browser option will now save selected options and saved passwords for a give web site.
* More custom filters for specific sites (Orthobullets.com Orthopaedic Review site, Hacker News), more custom filters in the future.

v. 4.6.0, 2014-03-04
* Fixing a problem with opening attachments from Gmail or similar situations
* Fixing an occasional crash when trying to open a PDF file.

v. 4.4.3, 2014-01-28
* Now will open or add to list also PDF files from http links, and better format TXT files from such links.
* Fixes for Share - Add to list sometimes not working as expected.

v. 4.4.2
* Using Share/Add to @Voice List will no longer interrupt reading of current article
* Fixed highlight and voice getting out of sync sometimes

v. 4.4.1, 2014-01-28
* Using Share/Add to @Voice List will no longer interrupt reading of current article
* Fixed highlight and voice getting out of sync sometimes

v. 4.4.0, 2014-01-24
* New settings, under "Text, Icons and Reading List" section: "For plane text, separate lines by default" and "For HTML, load full content by default".
* The same settings can be switched for individual articles or files under menu - "Reload or clear...". Change the options there if you don't like the way a plane text or HTML article is displayed.
* Bluetooth device feature is now optional, which will make the app available to about 500 more devices on Google Play.

v. 4.3.1, 2014-01-16
* It is now possible to reload an article from a web browser, for entering passwords etc. See menu - "Reload or clear" - "Load from browser"
* Fix crash on Android 2.x when pasting text.

v. 4.2.0, 2014-01-14
* Option to treat new-line characters as new paragraphs, when pasting text
* Fix for an occasional trouble when switching TTS voices

v. 4.1.7
* Fix: sentence highlighting would stop if screen turned off, then on again while the program is talking.

v. 4.1.6 Fixes:
* Small change to let FBReader TTS+ Plugin to use speech replacement created in @Voice, or import them from TTS+ to @Voice (under Settings menu)

Version 4.1 - 2013.12.23

* Swipe gesters to show-hide control panel at the bottom, reading list etc.
* Multiple reading lists

Version 4.0 - 2013-11.12

* Added "Edit speech" feature under Settings menu, to change pronunciation of some words, delete unwanted fragments of sentences (using RegEx) and more.
* Added "Clear contents" function to the menu, to clear the current text from @Voice screen.
* If HTML page declares text encoding different from auto-detected, we let you switch between the two from the menu, to display text correctly.
* Made the APK file to download smaller.
* Many smaller new features, improvements and bug fixes. 

Version 3.4.0 - 2013-10.18

* Added "fast scroll" feature - a blue circular button on right, that appears if you touch screen and move it up or down, then fades out if not needed. Touch and slide up/down to scroll fast to any part of the document.
* Fixed issue with PDF files sometimes losing position (bookmark)
* PDF files can be now added to reading list.
* Fixed issue with Dropbox leaving incomplete (damaged) files if connection was broken while downloading.

Version 3.3.2 - 2013-10.12

* Showing progress bars under article titles in the Reading List, to show how much was read.
* Fixing bug in extracting text from big PDF files
* Layout improvement for high resolution screens
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 3.2.3 - 2013.09.28

* Improved search interface, e.g. ending search with "Play" button starts playing from the currently found place.
* Better - sharper and flat - buttons in the bottom row

Version 3.2.1 - 2013.09.26

* Added Search function to the top bar of @Voice
* On Android 2.x implemented the same "Action Bar" and menu as on Android 4.x
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 3.1.0 - 2013.09.24

* Sending PDF files from Adobe Reader through "Share" function to @Voice now works.
* Pressing "Next" sentence when at the end, or "Previous" when at start, now loads a next or previous article from the list, or provides spoken feedback.

Version 3.0.7 - 2013.09.17

* Fixed a mixup of Russian texts appearing in Bulgarian translation
* Fixed a possible "null pointer" crash

Version 3.0.6 - 2013.09.16

* Fixed opening password-protected PDF files from Dropbox app, file explorers etc.
* Better multitasking, sometimes was blocking on article loading.

Version 3.0.3 - 2013.09.11

*  Fixed: could not open files from Dropbox app.

Version 3.0.2 - 2013.09.10

* Made possible opening PDF files by a press in Android "Download" area and similar situations.
* Several bug fixes.

Version 3.0.0 - 2013.09.05

* Now extracts text from PDF files for reading aloud or on screen. Select "Open" from menu and navigate to folder with any PDF files.
* Stability and speed improvements. Version 2.8.9.1 - 2013.08.21

Version 2.8.9 - 2013.08.10

Version 2.8 - 2013.08.01

Version 2.7 - 2013.07.01

* Loads very long text files in segments to avoid running out of memory
* Fixes for some encoding errors
* Long press now also highlights the sentence to start speed from that point, in addition to starting text selection. This makes possible selecting a sentence to start reading from when TalkBack is enabled.
* Performance improvements, including armeabi-v7a native code
* Several bug fixes

Version 2.6.1 - 2013.06.21

* Correcting problem with listing all voices (countries and speaker names were not displayed)
* Added character encoding recognition when loading text files. Should now display correct characters even if text is not in UTF-8 format.

Version 2.5.0 - 2013.06.12

* Added "night" reading mode to the menu
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements. 

Version 2.3.8 - 2013.05.28

* Several bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 2.3.4 - 2013.05.23

* For Android 4 (ICS) and higher, added a better lookup of TTS engines, languages and voices.
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 2.2.3 - 2013

* Added option to read aloud at once text copied to clipboard
* Redesigned Settings for more streamlined use
* Added notification to Android notification bar, with the title of currently played article. On Android v.3 and higher it also has progress bar, buttons to start/stop, skip sentences and turn on/off the option to speak clipboard aloud.
* Asking how to handle Stop button on its first use

Version 2.1.0 - 2013.04.27

* Dropbox login was broken if new Dropbox app installed. This release fixes the problem.

Version 2.0.9 - 201.04.22

* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 2.0.7 - 2013.03.29

* More crashes and no-reponses fixed. Thank you for sending the bug reports!

Version 2.0.5 - 2013.03.27

* Several bug fixes again.

Version 2.0.3 - 2013.03.24

* Fixed crash when pressing Help button on some devices
* Fixed English pronunciation of words ending with ST and a dot.
* Paste button or menu item now appears even if you copy text as short as 1 character.
* Auto-start speech when headset connection option now also works when Bluetooth headset is connected.
* Fixed an issue with reader not always remembering the text position after return form another screen
* Fixed occasional crash in Dropbox sync

Version 2.0.1 - 2013.03.21

* Zoom controls added to enlarge text as needed. Can be disabled under Settings.
* Now remembers the scroll position for each article
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 1.9.1 - 2013.03.12

* Bookmarks improved - now remembers exact position for all saved articles read, plus remembers how to load the contents (all or "essential")

Version 1.9.0 - 2013.03.11

* Auto-bookmarks the last read article, and restores it and the last read sentence when the app is stopped and re-started later. This also synchronizes through Dropbox, if you use this feature.

Version 1.8.8 - 2013.03.10

* Corrected a problem with ads sometimes showing even after buying and installing the "@Voice No Ads Upgrade". Sorry about that!

Version 1.8.7 - 2013.03.09

* Fixed another crash

Version 1.8.6 - 2013.03.02

* Fixed a rare crash on Android v.3 and higher 

Version 1.8.5 - 2013.02.25

* Added French translation

Version 1.8.4 - 2013.02.20

* Added German translation

Version 1.8.3 - 2013.02.18

* Bug fixes and performance improvements
* Added Russian translation

Version 1.8.1 - 2013.02.10

* Small bug fixes.

Version 1.8.0 - 2013.02.06

* Option to move @Voice folder to another location, e.g. external SD card, if needed.
* Dropbox sync now has option to be on demand (when you click the menu to sync only) or continuous.
* Option to not exit the app when the on-screen STOP button is pressed, just stop speech and reset position to the top of article.

Version 1.7.1 - 2013.01.31

* Faster start with slow data connection
* Auto-add to list articles added to our folder from outside @Voice app, e.g. saved to Dropbox from desktop browser
* Added Polish translation

Version 1.7.0 - 2013.01.30

* Dropbox sync! Enable, then build your list on one device, e.g. a tablet, then listen on your phone. Or from your computer, use File/Save As - "HTML only" function in the browser, save to @Voice Dropbox folder, then listen on your phone.

* Several bug fixes, including a crash on some long articles from RADIO SVOBODA.

Version 1.6.5 - 2013.01.15

* Improved contents extraction from Twitter tweets.

Version 1.6.4 - 2013.01.12

* Updated video tutorials in Help

Version 1.6.2 - 2013.01.09

* Modified to prevent speech stopping on empty paragraphs with some speech engines (e.g. Loquendo)

Version 1.6.2 - 2013.01.09

* Android package name changed to com.hyperionics.avar - will uninstall the older version upon first run, but preserve any saved articles and reading lists. 
* Performance improvements and bug fixes
* Ready for an optional purchase of No Ads Upgrade from Google Play Store

Version 1.5.1 - 2012.12.18

* Corrected issue with voice change when starting to read the next article from list.

Version 1.5.0 - 2012.12.17

* Better contents extraction, loads the main article only and omits navigation etc. from Web pages.
* Optional menu to load the full contents of page, if necessary.
* Optional "share" icon to just add an article to list. Choose icons to show in Settings.
* Added move and delete selected files buttons to reading list "add files" panel.
* Swipe left/right to load next/prev article from list.
* Billing permission added for future premium/no-ads edition.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 1.4.0 - 2012.12.10

•  Double click of headset next/previous buttons to advance articles from list did not work well, changed to LONG-PRESS (about 1 sec.) - much better.

• Sound divider between articles from the list, speaks article number and total of articles.

• Option to auto-add saved articles to reading list, on by default.

• Fixed Open -> HTML file saved from any browser, now opens it in correct format for reading aloud.

Version 1.3.0 - 2012.12.07

• Reading lists for uninterrupted listening of many previously saved articles

• Headset Previous/Next button double-click jumps to the previous/next article on a list

• Ability to select TTS voices by language, country and speaker name, e.g. "English (US, Heather)"

• Many other improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.2.0 - 2012.12.01

• Added paste, save and open commands

Version 1.0.1 - 2012.11.27

• First non-beta release

Version 0.2.8 BETA - 2012.11.22

• Again faster text processing for speech

• Downloading and processing progress bar was sometimes missing.

Version 0.2.7 BETA - 2012.11.21

• Much faster text loading and processing

• Fixed speech stopping upon rotating phone or lock/unlock

Version 0.2.6 BETA - 2012.11.20

• More bug fixes.

Version 0.2.5 BETA - 2012.11.16

• Performance improvements and bug fixes

Version 0.2.4 BETA - 2012.11.15

• Language recognition is now very fast, made auto-select language the default selection.

• Bug fixes and speed improvements.

Version 0.2.3 BETA - 2012.11.14

• Faster startup with auto-select language option enabled.

• Many more bug fixes and smaller improvements.

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Version 0.2.2 BETA - 2012.11.13

• Added automatic language recognition option, but it causes app to start slowly, so it's off by default.

• Many more improvements and fixes, see yourself!

Version 0.2.1 BETA - 2012.11.12

• Now works on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and higher

• You may use "Send by Email" button/menu in many news reading apps to get the text to @Voice

• Some HTML style is used in reader window, e.g. headers are bigger, if text was downloaded from a web page.

• Many smaller improvements and bug fixes.

Version 0.1.3 BETA

• Bug fixes, of course...

Version 0.1.2 BETA

• Cosmetic changes - removed title bar for more reading space, fixed "rate" link on "About" dialog.

Version 0.1.1 BETA

• Initial beta-test release. Please download and help us test and improve this app!