Talkie version history - 14 versions
Talkie by Joel Purra
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Latest version
Version 8.0.0
Released Oct 23, 2024 - 1.33 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later- Upgrade to Manifest Version 3.
- Read from clipboard in Firefox.
- Automatic dark mode, reduce custom page styling.
- Add speech status and history tab to options page.
- Optionally save spoken text history.
- Options to continue/stop speaking text when the tab is closed or the URL changes.
- Suggest reloading the options page if no voices could be loaded.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
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Version 7.0.0
Released Dec 31, 2021 - 1.21 MBWorks with firefox 57.0 and later- Added new user interface locales:
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Hausa
- Javanese
- Marathi
- Persian
- Punjabi
- Swahili
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Merged the demo and options pages to one, reducing the number of places to look for information and settings.
- Talkie Premium: simplified changing voice options, hopefully.
- Fixed a few minor bugs.
- Modernized source code and libraries.
Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
- Added new user interface locales:
Version 6.0.0
Released Feb 4, 2021 - 1.01 MBWorks with firefox 57.0 and later- Users who enjoy Talkie can now upgrade to Talkie Premium, with additional options and features.
- To upgrade, see the extension options.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 5.0.3
Released Oct 10, 2020 - 863.31 KBWorks with firefox 57.0 and laterNo functional changes for Firefox in v5.0.3.
- Updates third-party libraries, mostly used during development and packaging.
- Updates documentation.
- Fix for the (old) breaking change for the Permissions API in webextension-polyfill (callback-based to promisified calls). Should only affect Talkie Premium on Google Chrome though.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 5.0.2
Released Feb 5, 2020 - 882.7 KBWorks with firefox 57.0 and laterNo functional changes in v5.0.2.
- Updates third-party libraries, mostly used during development and packaging.
- Updates developer documentation.
- Updates the extension packaging system.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 5.0.1
Released May 11, 2019 - 803.01 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Changed Talkie's options to open in a tab of its own rather than inside Firefox extensions page. This is due to a bug in Chromium 74 where the options would not open at all. It will require more styling in future versions, like Talkie's demo page, but also be less restricted to the size and peculiarities of the extensions page.
- Updated instructions on how to download/install additional languages/voices on Windows 10 and macOS.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 5.0.0
Released Dec 11, 2017 - 784.01 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Added a demo page with several new tabs:
-- A welcome tab, which opens automatically once Talkie is installed.
-- The welcome tab should play a short sample message for any suitable voice installed.
-- A voice tab, which lists languages, dialects, voices detected on the current system (browser and operating system).
-- The voice tab has sample texts in 28 languages, displayed for matching installed languages on the current system.
-- A support tab, which lists frequently asked questions and answers.
-- Included links to additional voice installation instructions for the current operating system.
- Speak longs texts on by default in WebExtensions (Firefox) -- default off in Chrome.
- Added compact listing of some browser settings and system voices in the about tab in the options page.
- Some speed improvements:
-- Compile-time pre-render of HTML files used for the popup, the options page, as well as the demo.
-- Pre-rendered pages include critical path CSS. SVG icons and some webextensions specific CSS are still in separate CSS files.
-- Pre-rendering is done per-language and per webextension version.
-- Pre-rendered pages include known compile-time values, but not those which are browser-dependent.
-- Using reselect to memoize different filtered views of the installed voices, such as lists of languages and dialects.
- Improved graphics:
-- SVG files where possible, as before.
-- Higher resolution images (retina, @2x) where possible.
- Translations:
-- Added Bulgarian translation, making a total of 28 user interface languages/locales.
-- Updated some translation strings, and added many new strings -- especially for the support page.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 4.0.1
Released Jun 11, 2017 - 388.2 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Refresh the Talkie user interface.
- Clearer and fewer tabs in the options page.
- Add more icons, SVG where possible.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 3.2.1
Released May 21, 2017 - 337.33 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Reduce file sizes of icons/images/script files to speed up loading.
- Reduced resource usage by removing events when needed.
- More lenient language detection when there is no web page context (meaning right-clicking selected text, or reading from the clipboard on supported systems).
- Hide information about unsupported features.
- Fix potential problems when testing voices using options inside the popup.
- Support reading from clipboard in Talkie Premium on Chrome.
- Re-added css files accidentally ignored due to linting warnings (as errors).Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 3.2.0
Released May 21, 2017 - 334.52 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Reduce file sizes of icons/images/script files to speed up loading.
- Reduced resource usage by removing events when needed.
- More lenient language detection when there is no web page context (meaning right-clicking selected text, or reading from the clipboard on supported systems).
- Hide information about unsupported features.
- Fix potential problems when testing voices using options inside the popup.
- Support reading from clipboard in Talkie Premium on Chrome.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 3.1.0
Released May 15, 2017 - 366.1 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Added automated translations for several languages in the Talkie user interface.
- Supported languages in the Talkie user interface:
- ar Arabic
- cs Czech
- da Danish
- de German
- el Greek (modern)
- en English
- es Spanish
- fi Finnish
- fr French
- he Hebrew
- hi Hindi
- hu Hungarian
- id Indonesian
- it Italian
- ja Japanese
- ko Korean
- nb Norwegian (bokmål)
- nl Dutch
- pl Polish
- pt Portuguese
- ro Romanian
- ru Russian
- sk Slovakian
- sv Swedish
- th Thai
- tr Turkish
- zh ChineseSource code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 3.0.3
Released May 2, 2017 - 302.15 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and laterMinor fixes only.
- Improved internal/tab URL checks.
- Improved logging.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 3.0.2
Released May 1, 2017 - 303.79 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later- Added Talkie Premium version (not yet approved for Firefox).
- Talkie Premium: select favorite voice per language.
- Talkie Premium: adjust speed/pitch per voice.
- Reduced memory usage in Firefox.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0
Version 2.1.2
Released Mar 17, 2017 - 252.22 KBWorks with firefox 52.0 and laterFirst Talkie text-to-speech browser extension button release for Firefox!Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0