ANNOUNCE-1

Table of Contents

1 Availability

Download from: http://www.hamtools.org/cutecw/releases/

Announcement Mailing List: http://mail.hamtools.org/mailman/listinfo/cutecw-announce/

Available for:

  • Windows
  • OS X (Snow Leopard)
  • Linux
  • Maemo (N900 smart phone)

2 Training mode improvements

The algorithms for the recognition and speed training modes have been improved to more provide a better learning path.

  • A new set of training sequences for learning "similar" sounding character sequences (eg, "e, i, s, h, and 5").
  • The speed mode, in particular, now contains a carefully crafted rate increase to gradually increase the rate of speed.
  • A slight (configurable) delay has been introduced in recognition training to allow a time break before the next sound is played. (requested by multiple people)

3 Read-to-me mode

The read-to-me mode underwent an almost complete rewrite. This brings the following features and improvements:

  • Fixed the memory-hog issue so you can now load large files
  • Visual underlying display of words being played
  • A new ability to repeat every word a settable number of times

4 Miscellaneous

  • Front page icons have been added for a better visual starting page
  • A new audio-test button for selecting a tone-frequency
  • Many more preference settings
  • Many other miscellaneous bug fixes
  • Sound fixes provided by Simon Schubert
    • it should now work correctly on Linux, Windows, OS X and Maemo
    • His patches provided sound quality improvements as well

Author: Wes Hardaker (hardaker@sparta.com)

Date: 2011-03-06 14:31:53 PST

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