• Minor bug fixes.

Published first on 12 June 2025.

Changelog:

• Update the application for Android 15.
• Make the application's input fields independently scrollable, if they're long enough.
• Make the reinitialize text-to-speech button bring up a confirmation dialog, if a task is in progress.
• Fix a UI error affecting the some parts of the application.
• Fix an error that can occur if an unusable engine is chosen in the settings.
• Make some aesthetic changes to the application's settings menu.
• Change the minimum supported OS version to Android 5.0 (Lollipop).
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

• Fix a problem that can occur when sharing text to be read out loud.

• Fix a major error affecting Android 11 users.
• Fix a permissions issue with custom output directories.
• Fix a minor error sometimes preventing sample text from being spoken.

• Add configurable silence options for line endings, sentences, exclamations and questions.
• Add playback-on-input mode.
• Add support for reading text through the text action (thanks to @KevinSJ).
• Add text filters for omitting certain text elements from the audio.
• Allow queueing tasks and processing multiple text files.
• Backport the application to Android 4.0.3.
• Translate the app into Simplified Chinese (thanks to mahongyin).
• Various other improvements and error corrections.

• Add four memory buttons in the Read text screens (thanks to @woheller69).
• Add "nicer" image buttons (thanks to @woheller69).
• Add status fields to each screen.
• Add the ability to create wave files from input text and clipboard text.
• Allow selection of non-local documents in the file choice screen.
• Change the application settings menus to play sample text.
• Change the application to follow the system theme where possible (thanks to @woheller69).
• Fix an error where large text files could not be synthesized.
• Fix an error where the application did not properly release the audio focus.
• Improve the performance of text-to-speech playback and file synthesis.
• Improve voice selection in the application settings.
• Merge the Read from files and Write to files screens.
• Other fixes and improvements.

• Add missing metadata (e.g. screenshots).
• Update app descriptions to reflect separate TTS engine app requirement.

• Fix a bug that crashes the app when choosing text files to read.

• Add menu item for reinitialising the TTS engine.
• Add settings screen for setting and changing app-specific TTS settings.
• Change the minimum required Android version to Android 5.0 Lollipop.
• Change output sound file names to use the '.wav' extension instead of '.mp4'.
• Change the app to handle input lines and text files longer than Android's maximum speech input length.
• Improve TTS initialisation and language handling.
• Make TTS notifications display process of text synthesis.
• Other bug fixes and improvements.