Typed'82 TTS Update

The text to speech update is out! It took me a bit longer than expected. The sound of the first iteration was close to a robot and not too natural. So I’ve researched a bit and used an engine with a neural model to produce the words and sentences. However, I did not find a perfect way to slow down the voice for longer sentences. But I continue to test out more ideas. So, the text to speech mode works better in the Words-Mode rather than in Sentence-Mode. All three languages are supported. American English, German and a Spanish American version so far. It’s not a super easy feature to support, even on slower systems. Let me know how it feels and works for you folks.

Also, several more minor fixes made it into the update too. Mostly spelling issues and broken commands.

So, what’s next? I’m regularly changing keyboards. It’s fun sometimes to go with a particular feel, layout or anything in between, I guess. Every time I’m switching to another keyboard, my stats get messed up during the learning phase. Nothing super wild, but it’s hard to track progress with that. So one feature I’m thinking about is keyboard-based statistics like profiles for different keyboards. Typed’82 would save your keyboard profile with the run, and you can compare the stats between the keyboard profiles later on. A lot of words for a simple profile based statistics feature, I know. However, let me know if that’s interesting and what would you like to see there? Maybe something different?

In the meantime, stay safe and take care of yourselves!