3.16.10
2023-11-09
TelepaText gets improvements and bug fixes:
* Improved app responsiveness and fixed a bug for Spotlight indexing of large directories in the background.
* Optimized a bit of internal code.
* Built for iOS 12.0 or later.
3.16.8
2023-10-23
Bug fixes and modernization:
* Fixed a glitch in scrolling to the text found with the Search function.
* Corrected the app configuration for access to the user's Contacts to insert an address, email or phone number using the Speech Commands operations (an In-App Purchase).
* Fixed a crash bug that could occur in very unusual Paste situations.
* Corrected an app launch issue.
* Built for iOS 12.0 or later.
3.16.7
2023-09-13
* Fixed bug with status bar appearance in iOS 11 and 12 when using app-based Dark mode.
3.16.4
2023-08-12
* Updated TelepaText app icon with a better look for dark mode and improved proportions.
3.16.3
2023-08-04
TelepaText gets a directory view speed improvement and a minor navigation bug fix.
3.16.0
2023-07-04
TelepaText gets good speed and interface improvements for the search bar in the directory listing view, making it easier and faster to find documents in your collection.
* To do a search in a directory view, scroll or tap the status bar at the top of the screen to go to the top of the directory and enter the text in the search bar (with the magnifying glass icon).
* Tap the Search button in the keyboard to commit to the search.
* The keyboard will hide and a status view appears at the bottom displaying the number of matches found and documents searched.
* Documents with names matching the search text will be displayed as they are found.
* The search is a global search of all documents in TelepaText, including both iCloud and local documents.
* A jingle sound is played when the search process is complete.
* If one has a large collection of documents, completion of the search may take a few seconds the first time. Subsequent searches in a given app session will be much faster.
3.15.1
2023-05-10
* Minor text-to-speech pronunciation improvements.
* Added musicxml to the set of text filename extensions that are recognized for opening.
3.15.0
2023-01-11
TelepaText gets new keyboard support for navigating and opening documents on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch! Use a Bluetooth keyboard with TelepaText to access these useful keyboard shortcuts:
New Directory view keyboard shortcuts:
File commands (on iOS)
New document — Command N
Open — Command O
* Opens the selected document
Open from Files - Shift Command O
* Open a document in the device's Files (iCloud) storage using the standard iOS file browser
The following document selection shortcuts will select a document, highlighting it. Then use the Open (Command O) shortcut to open the selected document.
Line down - Command ]
* Select next document
Line Up - Command [
* Select previous document
Page Down - Shift Command ]
Page Up - Shift Command [
Home - Option Shift Command [
* Select first document in directory
End - Option Shift Command ]
* Select last document in directory
View by name — Command 1
View by date modified — Command 2
View by date created — Command 3
View by size — Command 4
Close - Command W
* Close the current directory view. When closing a directory view, the app will typically display the directory view of the parent directory. If the current directory is the root iCloud or root Local directory, Close does nothing.
Find - Command F
* Open the Search bar at the top of the directory listing. One can type the desired search text and then use the keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search results and open the selected item.
Document editing (on iOS)
Edit Mode - Command E
When first opening a document, it is in viewing mode. To enter Edit Mode, press Command E, and the document will go into edit mode with the insertion point blinking at the top of the document.
Line Down - Command ]
Line Up - Command [
Page Down - Shift Command ]
Page Up - Shift Command [
Home - Option Shift Command [
End - Option Shift Command ]
Close - Command W
Find - Command F
Find Again - Command G
Settings shortcuts (on iOS)
Line down - Command ]
Line Up - Command [
Close - Command W
Check out the full Keyboard Shortcuts in TelepaText - File Commands - TelepaText Guide - Keyboard Shortcuts.
Using an iPhone or iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard such as the Apple Magic Keyboard is a great way to get some reading and writing done. Sit up straight, set up the keyboard at elbow height, and set up the iPhone or iPad at eye height. Good posture is healthy! This is a nice light setup for traveling readers and writers.
3.12.2
2022-08-27
TelepaText gets a new Share action, "Add to TelepaText" for use in other apps to send some selected text into the TelepaText app for reading, text-to-speech, editing and organizing.
Steps:
* Select the desired text in an app, and the edit menu will appear.
* Choose Share... in the edit menu and the Share activities sheet appears.
* If Add to TelepaText is not visible, tap Edit Actions... and enable the Add to TelepaText action, and perhaps add it to the Favorites group.
* Choosing the Add to TelepaText action displays a sheet with a copy of the selected text.
* Edit the text if needed, and tap Done to add the text to a new document in the TelepaText app,
* Open the TelepaText app to display, listen to, and edit the new documents created with the Add to TelepaText action.
Additional features:
* The Add to TelepaText action will create a new document in the TelepaText app with the selected text in any app.
* The new documents are actually created when the app is launched or resumed, and then they can will synced on iCloud to other devices.
* The documents are automatically titled with the first line of text or an excerpt of text from the document.
* TelepaText supports both modern and older devices, devices running iOS 9.3 through iOS 15 or later.
3.11.4
2022-06-01
Improvement and bug fix for the Find and Replace action in the text editing view.
* If a Find or Replace fails to find the specified text, a message view will appear near the bottom of the text view for a moment saying: "Not found: " with the text. There is also soft two-tone alert sound, but that may not be audible given the situation.
3.11.3
2022-05-22
TelepaText gets a few minor text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.
3.11.2
2021-12-27
* Fixes bug for incorrect scroll position of newly opened document on iPad.
3.9.2
2021-05-18
TelepaText gets improvements, a bug fix and an elaboration of the tap gestures in the text view:
* Additions and improvements for text-to-speech pronunciation of abbreviations, units of measure, and technology terminology.
* Fixed recently introduced bug in one-finger double-tap text selection.
* Tap gestures in the text view:
One-finger single-tap — places the blinking insertion point at the tapped point.
One-finger double-tap — selects the word at the tapped point.
One-finger single-tap and hold, pause, then drag — moves the insertion point.
One-finger double-tap and hold, pause, then drag — selects the word at the tapped point and then extends the selection to the touch release point.
Two-finger single-tap — selects the tapped paragraph.
Two-finger double-tap — starts text-to-speech at the tapped paragraph.
3.8.10
2020-10-19
TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.
* Text-to-speech improvements for topical nomenclature.
* Numerous text-to-speech improvements for phrasing and acronyms, and a few bug fixes.
* Minor improvement to Markdown output: preformatted code in Markdown output is a blue green color.
3.8.9
2020-08-16
TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements for numeric unit and measurement abbreviations, which helps when using TelepaText to listen to technical and scientific texts. We do a lot of that here at Imaja!
3.8.8
2020-08-05
TelepaText gets bug fixes for toolbar behavior during text-to-speech transitions and speech feedback (an option in Settings).
3.8.7
2020-07-27
TelepaText gets text-to-speech improvements and bug fixes.
* Text-to-speech now pronounces geographic coordinates such as 51°28′38″N.
* Numerous other text-to-speech improvement for abbreviations.
* Fixed glitches in scroll position of text after stopping text-to-speech.
* Bug fix for app crash with certain text constructions.
3.8.6
2020-07-22
TelepaText improvements for text-to-speech:
* In text-to-speech, an acronym is spelled out unless it is a very common one with a special pronunciation. Some acronyms are expanded into full words for better comprehension of the speech.
* Improved behavior of hiding and showing toolbars when switching modes between viewing, editing, listening to text-to-speech. See "Hide toolbars when speaking" in TelepaText Settings.
3.8.1
2020-06-10
TelepaText is updated a couple of bug fixes. See the previous update info for details on the new Siri Shortcuts support and Evaluate action enhancement.
3.8.0
2020-06-08
TelepaText is updated with Siri Shortcuts, Evaluate action improvements, text-to-speech and interface improvements, and minor bug fixes:
The following activities in TelepaText are now available as Siri Shortcuts, so they can be triggered with your voice!
* Speak document
* Speak current document
* Speak directory
* Pause speech
* Resume speech
* Stop speech
* Speak document info
* Smooth scroll
* Select font
* Word Usage
* Word Types
* Show Markdown
* Display Style
* Email document
* Map Search
* Web Search
* Wikipedia Search
* Share document
* Lowercase selection
* Uppercase selection
* Capitalize selection
* Sort selection lines
* Evaluate selection
* Speak recent documents
* Open most recent document
* Open next document
* Open previous document
* New document
* New document with clipboard
* Open iCloud directory
* Open local directory
* To open the TelepaText Siri Shortcuts configuration view, choose Siri Shortcuts in the File Commands view (in the directory view) or the Actions view (in the editor view).
* In the Siri Shortcuts view, shortcuts have a plus (+) button to add that shortcut, and a gear icon to configure a shortcut that has already been added.
* On iOS 12.x, a custom speech phrase may be recorded to trigger the Shortcut. On iOS 13.x and later one can add the shortcut without recording a phrase.
* Many of the actions are performed on the selected text in the editing view.
Tutorial with screenshots: How to use Siri Shortcuts for TelepaText for iPhone and iPad
* https://imaja.com/telepatext/How-to-use-Siri-Shortcuts-for-TelepaText.html
* Speak News also gets some minor text-to-speech bug fixes and improvements.
* Evaluate action improvements for the calculation of basic mathematical expressions in the selected text:
- To evaluate the numbers and mathematical operators in the selected text, choose Evaluate in the Actions view (Command Shift V).
- Commas in numbers are removed.
- If a number is an integer, a ".0" is appended so it is a real number. The evaluation code in the system requires real numbers for correct calculations.
- Words such as "one", "two", "plus" and "minus" are converted to the numbers and operators for the evaluation action.
- Words other than numbers and operators ( ) + - + − × x ÷ / in the selected text are ignored.
- If an operator between two numbers is omitted, then the addition operator (+) is assumed.
- These Evaluate action features are new in both the iOS and macOS versions of TelepaText.
These improvements allow for addition of numbers in free-form text interspersed with numbers, such as a grocery list:
apples 5 oranges 6 kale 2 = 13
( apples 5 oranges 6 kale 2 ) * 1.0975 = 14.2675
A simple sequence of numbers is added with the Evaluate action:
1000 500 20 5 = 1525
3.7.3
2020-04-18
TelepaText is updated with minor improvements and bug fixes for text-to-speech.
3.7.2
2020-04-09
Minor bug fixes for text-to-speech.
3.7.1
2020-03-16
TelepaText is updated with improved text-to-speech:
* Implemented a workaround fix for a strange glitch in iOS 13 in the speaking of '2020'. Hmmmm... Gremlins?
* Corrected system punctuation mis-pronunciations on iOS 12.4.x with a workaround.
* Other minor improvements to text-to-speech pacing.
* Bug fixes in text-to-speech handling of punctuation.
* Added a new "Clean up junk" Speech Command** to remove a variety of unnecessary text phrases used on typical news web pages, improving the content quality for text-to-speech for those types of documents.
** Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase.
3.7.0
2020-02-05
TelepaText is updated with improved document management and text-to-speech, and minor bug fixes.
* The Edit mode in the document directory views now supports selection of multiple documents for the Move To Folder and Delete actions. To enter Edit mode, tap the Edit button in the directory view. The directory listing displays empty circles beside each document, and the toolbar displays a Move To Folder button (folder icon) and a Delete button (trash can icon). To select documents, tap the desired documents and the empty circle will change to the blue checkmark icon. Then tap the Move To Folder or Delete button as desired. The Move To Folder action will display the Move To Folder view for choosing the destination folder. The Delete action will display a confirmation alert. To simply exit the Edit mode without choosing an action, tap Done.
* New option in Settings: "Show filename extension in directory". This option defaults to 'on'. Turn this option off to hide filename extensions, such as ".txt", in document directory views. One can also turn off "Show item info in directory" and get clean filename-only directory views.
* Added pronunciation of the Greek alphabet characters for text-to-speech of scientific text.
* Other text-to-speech pronounciation improvements.
* Fixed text-to-speech bugs with sentence terminators and abbreviations.
* Fixed bug in Today widget.
3.6.0
2020-01-10
TelepaText updated with significant iCloud syncing improvements, and other text-to-speech improvements:
* iCloud syncing of documents has been improved, providing better app performance and user-control over when documents and folders are syncronized. This also minimizes Internet usage to user-desired documents, helpful for those on cellular connections.
* To download a document from iCloud, tap the document in the directory view. That document will be downloaded (synced) from iCloud and can then be opened.
* To download a entire directory of documents, drag downward in the desired directory view to trigger the refresh control (the spinning indicator), and the documents will be downloaded (synced) from iCloud and can then be opened.
* The new syncing process greatly improves setting up TelepaText on a new iOS device.
* Improved text-to-speech for special characters and punctuation.
* The Use Speech Visualizer option now defaults to ON for new installations of the app. We recommend turning this on in the Settings view.
* Check out the macOS version of TelepaText in the macOS App Store.
3.5.2
2020-01-02
* Improved icon and text display in the TelepaText documents directory view for Dark Mode in iOS 13.
3.5.1
2019-12-18
* Corrected text color in the TelepaText Today widget in Dark appearance on iOS 13.
3.5
2019-12-09
TelepaText gets new improvements, iOS 13 and Dark Mode support, and bug fixes:
* To get the benefits of Dark Mode support in iOS 13, choose the "white" Graphics Style in the Actions view of a document view. Then the light or dark appearance will follow the iOS 13 appearance dynamically.
* The app appearance can be customized with in-app 'dark mode' by toggling the Display Style in the Actions view of a document view in versions before iOS 13.
* Added an A to Z table index to directory views for easier navigation of large directories. The A-Z table index appears on the right edge of the directory view when sorted by Name, and the directory contains more than 50 items. To sort the directory view by file name, choose the View By Name command in the File Commands view.
* Text-to-speech is improved with better muting of extraneous phrases in text documents with the text of Wikipedia pages.
* Reorganized Speech Commands** Reference information with more headers defining different groups of speech commands.
* Updated Speech Commands Reference view to use the light or dark mode graphics style in use by the app.
* Improved text-to-speech pronounciation for additional abbreviations, punctuation characters.
* Improved text-to-speech muting of low priority items in text copied from Twitter web pages.
• Fixed Speech Commands bugs for the commands 'Insert [ address | phone | email ] for (name)'
* The toolbar buttons dynamically adjust on the smaller iPad screens in portrait orientation for visibility of the document title in the editing view.
* Fixed bug where local Documents directory did not appear upon startup.
* Check out the macOS version of TelepaText as well! TelepaText syncs your text documents across your devices via iCloud.
** Speech commands are an In-App Purchase that let one control the TelepaText app with speech commands for various actions.