v2.0-beta2

More responsive than ever

v2.0 of Piper-for-NVDA introduces a separate process for the TTS. This significantly increases responsiveness.

Noticeable improvements and fixes

• Installing voices is now easier using the integrated voice manager, which allows you to preview and download available voices.
• The TTS no longer introduces unnatural pauses at the end of the line during say all
• You can now configure synthesis parameters, such as length scale and noise scale
• Fixed some bugs related to voice switching
• Support for diacritizing Arabic text

What's new in v2.0 beta2

• Fixed the issue where sentences are broken by index command
• Upgraded onnxruntime to v1.16.1
• Fixed some bugs with voice preview
• Installing voices from local files no longer requires a specific file name format
• Use any free port for the grpc server rather than a fixed port.
• Some house keeping work

Full Changelog: v2.0-beta...v2.0-beta2