Improvements
- Text-to-speech
- the list of available voices has been updated which includes many new voices and languages. The list will now automatically stay up to date whenever our TTS provider (Google) releases new voices.
New languages include:
- Afrikaans (South Africa)
- Arabic
- Bangla (India)
- Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
- Cantonese (Traditional,
Hong Kong SAR China) - Catalan (Spain)
- Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Czech (Czechia)
- Danish (Denmark)
- English (India)
- Filipino (Philippines)
- Finnish (Finland)
- Greek (Greece)
- Gujarati (India)
- Hindi (India)
- Hungarian (Hungary)
- Icelandic (Iceland)
- Indonesian (Indonesia)
- Italian (Italy)
- Kannada (India)
- Korean (South Korea)
- Latvian (Latvia)
- Malayalam (India)
- Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
- Polish (Poland)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian (Romania)
- Russian (Russia)
- Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)
- Slovak (Slovakia)
- Spanish (United States)
- Tamil (India)
- Telugu (India)
- Thai (Thailand)
- Ukrainian (Ukraine)
- Vietnamese (Vietnam)
- The language, gender, and voice dropdown menus are now sorted.
- English (United States) is now selected by default.
- When changing languages, the first available voice is now selected by default.
- The technical requirements page has been updated. Notable changes include:
- Internet Explorer 8 and 9 are not supported. This is not new; these browsers have not worked in a long time. The page was incorrectly listing them as supported.
- Outdated Internet Explorer and Windows XP information has been removed.
- As of last year, Microsoft Edge is now based on Chrome rather than its own engine. The final version of the old engine (Edge Legacy) will continue to be fully supported and older versions partially supported.
- Alternative browsers (such as browsers like Samsung Internet Browser which is essentially a rebranded version of Chrome) are considered partially supported.
- The table of supported browser versions now just lists “latest version” as fully supported. Listing specific version numbers gets outdated quickly.
- There is now a section on feature compatibility since we have some features with stricter browser requirements such as virtual classes.
- There is now a section on custom domain requirements (DNS must be changeable, a TLS/SSL certificate must be provided, and no iframe embedding).
- There is now a section on SCORM requirements (content and LMSs must be SCORM 1.2 compliant).
Bug Fixes
- Text-to-speech:
- Fixed an issue where the voice dropdown for the default language was not loaded by default when adding TTS to a page.
- Fixed an issue where the voice dropdown would sometimes be empty after selecting a different language.
