- Improves management of local and global parameters: it is now possible to define global parameters (they apply to all presentations) and local parameters (they apply to the active presentation only).

- Upgraded translations for Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

PowerPoint improvements

1. New “Manually close Flash window option” in grid settings (when importing Flash files). This option allowed to correctly process Flash animations that contain complex ActionScript (for instance, animations generated by Captivate).
2. In Conference Mode, stopping Speechi now switches PowerPoint back to “Edit” mode (this is the default mode).
3. Added a button in Configuration -> Themes to automatically reset default theme colors (Modern style).
4. Speechi author can now manage the size of the left column from Speechi back-end; therefore, the video default size can also be managed. This option is available from Configuration -> Themes (modern theme).

File management

1. “/Transitions” directory has been moved to a temporary directory, in /temp. This directory is voluminous, but is not needed to play Speechis online, from a server. Many users ignored this and uploaded this directory to their server without using the Speechi upload command, which resulted in hard disk space loss.

Bug fixes:

- Scorm integration problem in Claroline
- Flash video integration (hide Video resource based on timer when no “end movie” signal in Flash)
- Various fixes related to Epistudio integration and 3.0 release

Improvements:

- New FTP dialogs and threaded FTP
- New podcast dialogs
- Unlimited length for presentation title

Speechi Share and Speechi 3.0 are not really related developments, but we have been waiting for them for a long time. Just a few customers knew about the projects because we never tell the planet in advance to avoid “Microsoft” effects but they just happen to be ready for release at the same time !

• Speechi 3.0 is an improved version of Speechi with lots of new features related to video, posting Speechi presentations into blogs, podcasting Speechi presentations and customizable Flash front-ends
• Speechi Share lets you broadcast professor’s PC and voice.

So I guess I will have two write lots of new tickets in the next 2 weeks…