Chimoo Timer - 1.5

Chimoo Timer is a simple countup/down timer featuring speech recognition and text-to-speech support. Give Chimoo Timer a try for all your timing needs!

Features

* Free! (donations still appreciated ;-))
* Speech recognition for timer control; see above.
* Text to speech for counting seconds and speaking alerts.
* Optional "tick" sound on hours, minutes, or seconds.
* Count up and count down modes.
* Optional floating mini window takes up less space on your screen.
* Optional multiplier view for counting frames per second (fps), etc.
* Optional menu extra displays in the menu bar.
* Dock menu to control timer.
* Low CPU usage; especially when in background or hidden.
* Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
* Universal binary - PPC and Intel native.
* Customizable settings for what to do upon timer expiration.
* Optional feature to warn before stopping timer - great for timing important things when you don't want to accidentally reset or stop the timer.


What's new in this version:

* [new feature] New menu extra optionally displays timer in menu bar.
* [new feature] Dock icon can be hidden when menu extra is shown.
* [new feature] Greatly expanded text-to-speech options including count down expiration warning, ability to speak last ten seconds of a countdown, and customizable voice and speech rate settings.
* [new feature] Retooled speech recognition system with a few more options now displays standard floating speech palette.
* [new feature] New OS X style toolbar for timer control.
* [new feature] Option to display progress bar during count down.
* [new feature] Automatic repeat after delay option.
* [new feature] Ability to log current timer value and save log to a file.
* [other] Preferences reorganized.
* [other] Lots of other miscellaneous changes.
* [bugfix] Accuracy of timing is no longer affected by automatic internet updates of the computer's date and time.
* [bugfix] Problems getting a count down time to stick have been resolved.


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