New in v1.6:
(2009-04-16)

• New voice languages: Arabic, Greek, Russian.
• New high quality voices for existing languages: Italian male voice, Turkish female voice, British female voice, Norwegian male voice.
• Compatibility with Safari 4.
• New localization: Italian (provided by our partner Active Software)

New in v1.5.1:
(2008-06-04)

• Export to iTunes now: (1) Sets album, album artist, and year to default values; (2) Puts the date and time of audio creation in the iTunes comments field; (3) Uses the GhostReader logo as default album art.
• Fixes spinning cursor issue with Pages 2008
• Acapela Group provided fixes to the following voice issues: (1) Activation problem with American Spanish; (2) Occasional crash with the Italian Chiara voice; (3) Text encoding problems with Czech and Polish voices.

New in v1.5:
(2008-05-14)

• Adds new natural sounding voices for Czech, Polish, Swedish and Finnish while existing voices have been enhanced
• Adds a pronunciation editor, which can be used to modify the way a word is pronounced or to add new abbreviations
• Adds direct export to iTunes of documents and selected text for playback on iPhone or iPod
• Adds user-selectable encoding for export to iTunes (AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless)
• In Leopard now also reads DOCX and ODT documents
• Export to iTunes now runs in the background
• Enhanced responsiveness when speaking selected text or text below the cursor
• Speaking selected text now also works in floating windows such as those of the Leopard Help Viewer
• Speak Text Below the Cursor now speaks the alt. tags for images and buttons in web pages, Mail and widgets
• Speak Text Below the Cursor now also speaks just the paragraph below the cursor in Mail, TextEdit and Pages 2008
• Many other enhancements and fixes

New in v1.1.1:
(2007-09-18)

• Now creates a true, bookmarkable audiobook file when exporting to iTunes 7 AAC format, ready to load onto an iPhone or iPod
• Now Leopard-ready
• Improved PDF import with smart-stripping of end-of-line hyphens
• Improved performance when speaking long texts

New in v1.1:
(2007-07-05)

• The application name changed from TextParrot to GhostReader.
• New languages with high quality female voices: American Spanish (Rosa) and Canadian French (Louise)
• New languages with medium quality voices: Turkish, Icelandic and Czech
• New high quality voices for Dutch (Max) and British English (Peter)
• Adds a German localization (English and French were already available)
• Enhanced listening experience with buttons to re-listen the current paragraph or sentence or to skip to the next one
• For school use preferences can now be locked and the content of the reader window can be exported to an RTF document
• Many other interface and usability enhancements, including an expanded Help facility

New in v1.0.1:
(2007-01-30)

• Now also available in a trilingual version
• Now also available as a bundle with Infovox iVox for even better voices (less compression) that can be used in any application. The standard TextParrot voices can only be used with TextParrot.
• Now also available with special educational licenses
• Some fixes in the voices that affected a small number of users
• Removed an annoying trial reminder

New in v1.0:
(2006-12-12)

• First Release (then named 'TextParrot 1.0').