What's Coming in the Update to J-Say 16!

Hi to all

We are now busily developing and testing the next release of J-Say. This will be a free update to all J-Say version 16 users and will be released on 8 May 2018.

We can say at the moment that the changes in this upgrade will include:

Being more responsive. Due to recent internal changes to Dragon in the version 15.3 release, you will find an increased level of stability and responsiveness. You are welcome to download and install Dragon 15.3 now from this page:
http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26894/~/information-o...

It can be installed over the top of your existing version of Dragon without compromising J-Say functionality. However you will find that the upcoming release of J-Say will improve matters even further as we can take advantage of the new functionality Nuance have provided.
You will particularly find this update helpful if you use Microsoft Outlook extensively.

Launching items directly with voice commands. This very welcome feature is back. You will be able to launch folders, files and web pages again directly with voice commands of your choosing.

Attachments in Outlook. The most frequent technical support query we receive at the moment relates to managing attachments, either opening them and especially saving them in the correct folder. So an interface has been designed to make this process far easier and works with all releases of Office from 2010 onwards.

Spell Mode. The commands, Spell Mode On and Spell Mode Off, now provide spoken feedback to indicate the status.

J-Say News. Our News app now contains many more news sources for you to browse the latest headlines.

Vocabulary Editor. If you select to see Custom Words only, these are now announced by JAWS as you move through the list.

PDF Files. Moving by units such as paragraphs in PDF documents is now more reliable.

Skype for Windows10. Voice commands will be included for use with Skype for Windows10.

There may well be other small changes made to the J-Say release before people start working with it, but those are the primary improvements. Naturally, details of all of the improvements will be included in our extensive J-Say documentation.

We look forward to posting more information when it is available!