LITW 1.2 BUILD 17 — STABLE RELEASE NOTES

Build 17 begins directly with the approved Build 16 narrator package. It trims
quiet audio from the beginning and end of every generated verse, while keeping
a ten-millisecond safety edge to avoid clipped speech or clicks. It does not
add pauses based on punctuation. Builds 18, 18B, and 19 are not included.

Build 17 also corrects excessive JAWS context when Left Arrow first enters the
separate verse-number column after moving to another verse. It should announce
only the focused verse number.

Narrator protocol revision 2: Scripture text is safely encoded before being
sent to the offline narrator. This corrects the JSON delimiter error found
after a successful first use of Read Current Verse.

Audio revision 3: the fp16 narrator model replaces the compressed int8 model.
Active speech in every verse is leveled consistently with one decibel of peak
headroom. Test the three male voices especially in John 9:35-37.

Keyboard revision 4: repeated letters in book and other selection lists now
perform immediate one-character navigation and are cleared after every press.
Narrator voice, speed, and reading commands also clear delayed JAWS key echo.

Build 17 has passed user testing and is now the current stable version.

FIRST NARRATION TEST

1. Open a short Bible passage and place focus on its first verse.
2. Press R. The first use can take longer while the offline model loads.
3. Confirm that Lewis reads Scripture and that the Scripture cursor advances
   one verse at a time without speaking verse numbers.
4. Press S or either Control key. Narration should stop and the cursor should
   remain on the last verse being read.
5. Activate Read Current Verse. Only the focused verse should be narrated.
6. Activate Read From Here. Narration should continue from the focused verse.
7. Press Insert+Down Arrow. JAWS should still perform its own Read All command.

VOICE AND SPEED

1. Press A for the next narrator and Shift+A for the previous narrator.
2. Confirm the screen reader announces the narrator name and that narration
   remains stopped until R is pressed again.
3. Press Left Bracket or Right Bracket to change speed in 10-percent steps.
4. Press Backslash to restore 100-percent speed.
5. Press F2 and test the accessible Scripture Narrator Settings dialog.
6. Confirm Lewis and the selected speed are remembered after restarting.

VOLUME

1. Compare each narrator with the usual JAWS volume.
2. Listen for distortion on loud words. The generated Scripture audio receives
   consistent speech leveling and peak protection.
3. Report whether the narrator is still too quiet, appropriately balanced, or
   too loud. There is intentionally no narrator-volume control in the program.

DAILY READING AND REGRESSION CHECKS

1. Open today's daily reading and a missed reading. Confirm R, S, A, Shift+A,
   the speed keys, F2, and version switching operate correctly.
2. Confirm Mark This Reading Complete and the missed-reading list are unchanged.
3. Confirm all menus, tabs, dictionaries, Strong's Concordance, search results,
   and status messages are still spoken by JAWS rather than Kokoro.
4. Confirm verse-number column navigation from Build 15 still works.
5. Confirm Control+Shift+H reports Version 1.2, Build 17 stable.
