Hello @ll,

AAO version 4.20 has been uploaded to the shops today. Please allow them a couple of hours until they deploy it.

Changelog:

MSFS SU15 compatibility update
XP 12 Beta compatibility update

- Change: Axis: "High sensitivity mode" for joystick axis operation
- Change: Axis: when assigning an event or variable with a value range greater than 2, Rounding is preset to "int"
- Change: Axis: redesigned and simplyfied the Axis Trigger Mode
- Change: Voice Recognition: added an error log message when a grammar can't be loaded
- Change: Voice Recognition: added an optional setting to prevent AAO voice recognition reactig to text-to-speech output
- Change: Voice Recognition: added Windows Voice Typing ("Cortana") online voice recognition option.
- Change: Voice Recognition: added option to parse a dictation into button events.
- Change: Scripting: REXEXSPLIT can escape pipe symbol
- Change: Scripting: added "(>>" increment/concatenation operator to RPN for numerical and String LVars
- Change: Scripting: Editor remembers font and size
- Change: Gauges: added option to implement scrolling text
- Change: Gauges: added <Visible> tag to Input element
- Change: XPlane: made AAO more resilient against invalid entries in the default DataRefs.txt and Commands.txt
- Change: XPlane: optimized the scan process for XP files
- Change: XPlane: RPN parser accepts AAOs internal K-Events
- Change: MIDI: added processing of MIDI SysEx messages as 0xF0-CHN-EVT-VAL-0xF7. CHN, EVT, VAL are single byte values for channel (0-255), event-ID (0-255) and value (0-127)

- Bugfix: NOAA weather API has changed
- Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: attaching an XBox controller and another device that registers as a gamepad, then one of the two won't work.
- Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: updating labels when a script is renamed
- Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: AAO would crash when a game controller was disconnected in a layered button/axis configuration
- Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: When a joystick is initialized before connecting, switch-type buttons that are in the "ON" state were not processed correctly when switched off again
- Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: when scripts were assigned to an axis it would only transmit integer values, regardless of what the rounding was set to. Float rounding has been limited to 4 digits in this case 
- Bugfix: Wear&Tear was missing the option to edit the title of a template
- Bugfix: MSFS: One Shot Autoscripts starting more than once
- Bugfix: MSFS: controls were not disabled in Clone mode
- Bugfix: Gauge Editor: fixed problem with resizing the background image
- Bugfix: Scriptfiles: syntax checker shows multiple choice checklist commands as errors
- Bugfix: Scripting: missing updates in buttons when renaming script groups or scripts
- Bugfix: Saitek Panels: Some buttons not processing ON/OFF correctly when overridden with custom events or scripts (upper row on the Switch Panel)
- Bugfix: CAN: floating point numbers incorrectly "reduced" to the neighboring integer

Edited May 30, 20242 yr by Lorby_SI

In addition, AAO 4.20 now has another option for voice recognition.

On the axisandohs.com website, section "DOWNLOADS" you will find the new "Cortana Bridge". This is a plugin for AAO that lets you utilize the Windows Online Voice recognition system. This is way better than the default offline variant but still not as powerful as using the Azure option. The Cortana bridge doesn't requite additional accounts with an online AI provider, it works "out of the box".