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