Speed Reading versions

Utility to help you read and comprehend text quickly.
1.1
Jul 19, 2013
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1.0
Jun 15, 2012
Review

What's new

v1.1 [Jun 28, 2012]
[New] There is now a preference to combine paragraphs, for example from truncated emails or text copied from PDF files.
[New] You can now Summarise Text down to a user-specified number of sentences.
[New] You can now choose to have the spoken text highlighted by Word, Line, Sentence or Paragraph.
[New] When the highlighted text is below the visible screen it pages down for you.
[New] There is now a preference to remove web addresses.
[New] There is now a preference to remove email addresses.
[New] There is now a preference to clean the text. This removes excess spaces and returns, plus other edits.
[New] Once speech has finished it checks to see if different text is on the Clipboard. If so, it will speak the new Clipboard text.
[New] Now saves your Preferences and font size between saves.
[New] Compatible with Retina Display.
[New] Compatible with Mountain Lion.
[Fix] No longer displays some text artefacts when reading new text from clipboard.
[Fix] No longer crashes on the last word of certain texts.
[Fix] Bringing the application to the foreground while speech is running and with new clipboard text no longer cancels the current speech.

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