Release Notes

Version 1.4.10

  • Minor fixes for operational stability.

Version 1.4.9

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that caused files with different file extensions to be created when creating a new Chinese word dictionary.

    • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect audio storage under certain conditions.

    • Fixed a bug that caused Japanese analysis to be incorrect under certain conditions.

Version 1.4.8

  • Functional Improvements
    • Suppresses unwanted messages when entering text that cannot be read out loud in English or Chinese.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that caused an error when copying and pasting Japanese voice preset lines in list format.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented the use of English and Chinese user voice presets in list format.

Version 1.4.7

  • Add or change functions
  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the use of the “er” phoneme in Chinese.

    • Corrected the wording of some messages.

    • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect reading when certain characters were included in the text in English.

Version 1.4.5

  • Fixed build process flaws in version 1.4.4.

Version 1.4.4

  • Dark theme support for adjustment controls on phrase edit and word edit screens.

Version 1.4.3

  • Supports the trial version of the append voice alone.

Version 1.4.2

  • Add or change functions
    • Support for append voices.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that the word registration (English) and word registration (Chinese) windows were not displayed properly when the window theme was set to “Dark”.

    • Fixed a bug with incorrect pinyin available for Chinese word registration.

    • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect accent positions under certain conditions.

    • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect readings of numeral phrases.

Version 1.4.1

  • Fixed a bug that caused an error in speech synthesis for English and Chinese speakers depending on the value of the pause setting.

Version 1.4.0

  • Add or change functions
    • Chinese voice support.

    • [API] Added the ability to get the number of lines of text in list format.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug in which the Phrase Dictionary item was displayed in the Project Settings screen when only English voices were installed.

    • Fixed a bug in which characters that could not be used as readings could be entered when editing the reading of a phrase.

Version 1.3.2

  • Add or change functions
    • Added the ability to delete all pauses in a phrase to phrase editing. (=> Delete all pauses in a phrase)

    • Support for some environments where activation was not possible.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug where text was not displayed in the style context menu of the voice preset edit window.

    • Fixed a bug that the accent of the accent phrase adjacent to the symbol pause is incorrect.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented “Kantan! AITalk 5” from starting on version 1.3.1 installations.

    • [API] Fixed a bug that caused an error when setting the value of the standard voice preset.

Version 1.3.1

  • Add or change functions
    • Added the ability to output phoneme information when saving audio. (=> Text file)

    • Changed to accept hiragana and half-width katakana characters when editing phrase readings.

    • [API] Added the ability to retrieve and set voice presets.

    • [API] Added voice preset acquisition process to sample program.

    • [API] Change the minimum value for long pauses in the sample program to 80.

    • [API] Deleted the determination of the relationship between short and long pauses in the sample program.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that caused an error when starting A.I.VOICE Editor with no voices installed.

    • Fixed a bug in the User Data Conversion Tool where voice presets using a specific voice were not converted correctly.

    • Fixed a bug that could cause the editor to terminate abnormally when the display magnification is large.

    • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect delimitation of accented phrases in certain input text.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented text-to-speech from working properly when certain characters were included in the text.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented the editor from starting if some configuration files became corrupted.

    • [API] Fixed a bug that the editor sometimes terminated abnormally when checking Status and performing a string operation in the editor’s text input field at the same time.

    • [API] Fixed a bug that caused an error when acquiring master control with the master control volume set to 0.

    • [API] Fixed a bug that caused unspecified values to become default values when setting master control values.

Version 1.3.0

  • Add or change functions
    • A.I.VOICE Editor API function added. (=> A.I.VOICE Editor API)

    • Changed the lower limit of long pause to 80.

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that the pause value is not set correctly when the long pause is smaller than the short pause.

Version 1.2.2

  • Add Windows 11 to System Requirements. (=> Operating environment)

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that saving audio does not end if the voice preset name contains characters that cannot be used as a file name when audio is saved by specifying a voice preset as a naming rules.

    • Fixed a bug that the audio file becomes invalid if the existing file is left when the file name is duplicated when saving the audio file.

    • Fixed a bug that project save fails when text contains vertical tabs.

    • Fixed a bug that Japanese analysis cannot be performed for a sentence when an unread sentence is entered in the list format text.

    • Fixed a bug that voice preset tags are always output to the text when saving audio.

    • Fixed a bug that the accent of the accent phrase adjacent to the symbol pause is incorrect.

    • Fixed a bug that intonation is incorrect for certain input text

    • Fixed a bug that reading aloud is incorrect for input text including ruby in Aozora Bunko format.

    • Fixed a bug that Japanese analysis is not performed correctly for specific input text.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented text with specific parts of speech from being read out loud.

    • Fixed a bug that the editor crashes after playing in list format.

Version 1.2.1

  • Fixed an issue where the amount of change when changing the volume/height voice effect value was not correct when reading out loud in English voice.

  • Fixed a bug that allowed numbers to be registered as headings in the English word dictionary.

  • Fixed the bug that the title of the user dictionary list screen remains in the OS language.

  • Fixed a bug in which the intonation of the following accented phrases became unnatural when using arbitrary long pauses in phrase editing.

  • Fixed a bug in which the style display was not correct when changing a voice with Fusion set as the voice preset.

Version 1.2.0

  • Add or change functions
    • English voice support

    • Added the ability to select the language of the screen display (Japanese/English) (=> Language)

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed a bug that caused spaces in the input text of audio file names to be deleted due to naming conventions.

Version 1.1.2

  • Fixed a bug where some buttons overlap when the window size is reduced.

  • Fixed a bug in which phrases using characters other than Shift-JIS (CP932) as headings could not be registered correctly.

  • Fixed a bug in which deleting a sentence in a list format text while it is being edited in the phrase editing field would display a dialog asking if the sentence should be applied to the list.

  • Fixed a bug where deleting a sentence in a list of text would cause the list to lose focus.

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the start of line dragging in the upper fixed area of text in list format.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when dragging the last line of text in a list format.

  • Fixed a bug that prevented text with specific parts of speech from being read out loud.

  • Fixed a bug that caused the height of the voice preset to change when changing the intonation of a fused voice preset.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when playing back text that exceeds a certain length of time per sentence.

Version 1.1.1

  • Add or change functions
    • Added the ability to “Skip this version” to the update information screen (=> Update confirmation)

  • Bug fix
    • Fixed an issue where reading accuracy could be degraded when single/double quotation marks are used in input text.

    • Fixed a bug in which the modified endings were not displayed in the phrase editing field when a line with modified endings was selected in the list format.

    • Fixed a bug where “Apply to list”, “Japanese parsing”, and “Convert to standard language” could be executed during playback.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented the pasting of copied and cut lines to the last line of a list format.

    • Fixed a bug in which “Apply to List” did not remove the “★” mark from the list unless the reading style was changed.

    • Fixed a bug in which “Select all of these presets” in the list could change the line displayed in the phrase edit field.

Version 1.1.0

  • Added the ability to edit text in list format (=> List format)

  • Add long sound correction for word edit readings (=> Reading)

  • Add long sound correction for word edit readings (=> Reading)

  • Added a function to convert user data between A.I.VOICE and VOICEROID2 (=> User data conversion)

Version 1.0.3

  • Fixed a bug that voice presets were not set correctly when saving audio separated by a string.

  • Fixed a bug that the naming convention was displayed when saving a file in the Save File dialog after saving audio with the file naming convention specified.

  • Fixed a bug in which opening a new project with an exported project open did not reflect the user dictionary.

  • Fixed a bug in which the project’s referenced voice preset file was overwritten with the current voice preset information when opening the project file.

  • Fixed a bug where voice presets could not be saved when importing an exported project.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when exporting an exported project again.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an intermediate language format error when certain phrases were applied during speech synthesis.

Version 1.0.2

  • Fixed a bug that the update notification was still displayed after updating to the latest version.

Version 1.0.1

  • Add or change functions
    • Added advanced settings to the file path naming convention for saving audio (=> How to Specify Audio File Path)

    • Added the ability to change the font size on the main screen (=> Change font size)

    • Added the ability to specify the character encoding for text files (=> Text file, Loading Text)

    • Add “Dark” to the window theme (=> Window)

    • Changed text reading to highlight each accented phrase being read out loud.

    • Changed to display a confirmation message when clicking the “Undo” button in phrase editing.

    • Changed the message display level to “brief”, not to display the settings screen when saving audio, and not to display a confirmation message when the audio file path is specified in the naming convention.

    • Changed so that the list of recently used projects is not deleted when the settings are initialized.

  • Bug fix
    • Improvement of problem in which installation of .NET Framework fails in certain environments

    • Fixed a bug where the start and end pauses could not be set correctly in the project settings.

    • Fixed a bug that caused an error when playing a phrase from the middle.

    • Fixed a bug in which line feed codes other than CRLF were not correctly recognized as line feeds in the input text.

    • Fixed a bug that caused an error when operating the mouse wheel in the phrase adjustment field.

    • Fixed a bug that caused an error when dragging voices, voice presets, symbolic pauses, etc. to the taskbar.

    • Fixed a bug in which filtering by initial letter in the user dictionary list screen did not work.

    • Fixed a bug that the filtered status by initial letter in the user dictionary list screen was not restored when the application was restarted.

    • Fixed a bug where phrases prefixed with a symbolic pause were not applied.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented half-width characters from acting as phrase separators

    • Fixed a bug where editing a reading in word editing did not result in the word being edited.

Version 1.0.0

  • Initial version release