Well, I got GPT5 Pro mode again, asked it to help refactor my driver because I don't do a good enough job myself of that, and now it's been thinking for 88 minutes. Either it's going to give me a big disaster pile, or I somehow got it stuck. Longest time I've seen it think was like 65 minutes haha. But what the heck can you do for 88 minutes! This better be good. I feel like I'm asking a real coder to do the work, but worse, because it's not an actual real coder but a program, so it's more disappointing.

God, Mac OS is really awful these days! A notification comes in, no VO focus on it, so hit VO+F1 twice, notifications menu has "go to Notification Center" and..."No items in Notification center!" Also, "Go to Notification Center" doesn't actually do anything! If something this basic doesn't work, it's no wonder VO is so bad. Case in point, every time my Mac restarts now, it comes up saying "Installer has no Windows." I have to use VO+Shift+Space to click the mouse because it's hanging out in the Login Window, while Vo's focus refuses to move from this blank Installer Window no matter what. Pressing VO+F1 just says, "Authentication required." Shit, maybe I just need to blow the OS away and start over.

New: NV Speech Player finally gets a "pause mode" setting, like Eloquence has. This should not chew into lines with say-all, but rather does clause-based punctuation pause detection. And, it does appear to work. You can choose between "off," "short," and "long." This should solve a lot of complaints around words "merging together" after punctuation. I also began my first pass at abstracting parts of the driver out: _frontend.py and _dll_loader.py. Logging was also improved, I cleaned up over 40 try/catch exceptions, We're not trying to play Pokemon here.
download: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Oh! and for those wondering "where's classic pitch?" It's located in the Voice settings dialog, you'll find it as a checkbox.