• First launch now sets everything up: choose your reading language, allow Edge speech once, and start reading. Nothing else to configure. • Reading While Locked, Translate & Speak and Read clipboard immediately are on by default; each can be switched off in Settings. • Action Button setup is one button and two taps: the guide adds the shortcut, then opens the Action Button settings for you. • Fixed a silent Action Button read that ran in the wrong extension instead of the app. • Choosing an installed Apple voice stops Microsoft Edge data transfer: the voice source is the privacy control. • Improved Edge voice authentication, playback recovery and background reading. • Fixed pauses between paragraphs in long documents and recovery after a brief connection problem.

• Action Button: set up the background shortcut, then copy text and press and hold the button to start reading without opening VoiceForge. A new step-by-step guide helps you add, assign and try the shortcut. • Follow and control reading from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island on supported devices. • Choose Microsoft Edge or installed Apple voices, with separate language and voice choices, previews and guidance for downloading more Apple voices. • New privacy controls explain Microsoft speech processing before you allow Edge voices. You can withdraw permission and switch to Apple System voices in Settings. • Fixed Edge voice authentication and improved playback recovery on unreliable connections. • Share PDF and text files directly to VoiceForge, with improved handling for locked and large PDFs. Long documents can begin reading while translation continues. • Improved background playback, karaoke scrolling and speed controls.

What's New in Version 1.0.2: - On-Device Document Scanner & OCR: Tap "Scan" in the main toolbar to capture printed pages or books. Rotate, crop, and recognize text instantly. Text recognition (OCR) is performed entirely locally on your device for maximum privacy. - Translate & Speak Mode: Translate scanned, imported, or pasted text on-device and read it aloud. Supports dynamic split-view panes displaying original and translated texts side-by-side. - Safari Translation Provider: Share web pages or highlight text segments in Safari. The extension hands off the content to the main app immediately, keeping playback running even if you switch apps. - Full 12-Language Localization: The entire user interface, settings menus, crop overlays, and split reader controls are fully translated into Russian, Ukrainian, French, English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and Chinese. - Optimized Landscape & Split-Pane Sync: Enjoy a side-by-side reader on iPad and iPhone landscape views. Sentence mapping is calculated instantly with spring physics animation. - Highlighting Precision: Enhanced visual karaoke word boundary synchronization with the spoken audio.