This page lists the released versions of Vocola 2 and the changes they included, with the most recent version first. To download Vocola 2, click on the link next to the version you want.

Version 2.7.2 -- May 15, 2011 (Vocola-2-7-2.zip)

• Workarounds for some Dragon bugs, including the DNS 11 bug where using <_anything> prevents recognition of 0 to 9.

Version 2.7.1 -- December 19, 2010 (Vocola-2-7-1.zip)

• Vocola can now be extended with extensions written in Python.

Version 2.7 -- July 17, 2010 (Vocola-2-7.zip)

• Code generation for actions completely rewritten
• Runtime errors are now caught and displayed in a more user-friendly manner. (No incomprehensible Python stack traces anymore.)
• New built-in EvalTemplate, which provides a more powerful version of Eval.
• User functions are now implemented by unrolling; this allows passing instructions like SendDragonKeys(-), not just string-valued expressions, to user functions.
• How underscores in keystroke strings (e.g., "hello{enter_2}") are handled has changed slightly.
• For more details, see these release notes

Version 2.6.5 -- January 16, 2010 (Vocola-2-6-5.zip)

• Python 2.6 is now supported
• Fixed some minor bugs with SendDragonKeys and variable names containing digits.
• For more details, see these release notes

Version 2.6.4 -- September 7, 2009 (Vocola-2-6-4.zip)

• Command sequences work again for DNS 7.0 and later; complicated grammars may require limiting the maximum number of commands per utterance, however, with these versions of DNS.
• Command sequences can be turned on/off/limited on a per .vcl file basis.
• For more details, see these release notes

Version 2.6.3 -- April 15, 2009 (Vocola-2-6-3.zip)

• Unimacro actions can now be called from Vocola commands if Unimacro has been installed
• Commands are recognized faster because the Vocola compiler is run during recognition only if at least one file in a Vocola command folder has been changed/added
• Python 2.5 is now supported
• For more details, see these release notes

Version 2.6 -- January 27, 2008 (Vocola-2-6.zip)

• Many, many minor bugs have been fixed
• Context statement ":" now clears any existing context
• A small library of string functions has been provided (NatLink\Vocola\Samples\string.vch)
• Toggling the microphone should no longer be necessary to ensure that (new) commands are loaded.
• The Dragon WaitForWindow and HTMLHelp calls are now supported.
• The behavior of Eval has changed slightly; in particular, it no longer assumes that values of the form +digits are integers.
• For more details, see these release notes

Version 2.5 -- January 10, 2005 (Vocola-2-5.zip)

• Commands can incorporate arbitrary dictation. See Capturing Dictation.
• Allow disabling/enabling the command sequences feature (and disable it by default), to avoid performance problems caused by bugs in NaturallySpeaking 7.0 and 8.0

Version 2.4 -- September 28, 2003 (Vocola-2-4.zip)

• Fixed problem with some installations where vcl2py.exe failed to run, and perpetually raised a blank message window.
• Fixed problem where "Edit Voice Commands" (with some editors) did not allow editing commands by voice.

Version 2.0 -- June 7, 2003

• Speak continuous command sequences
• Automatic loading of changed files, with error messages to NatLink window
• User-defined functions
• include statement
• Eval built-in function
• Repeat built-in function
• Context statements can contain '|'
• Function arguments can be built from several actions
• Numeric arguments now work correctly in all built-in functions
• Improved generated Python code (using VocolaUtils.py)
• Case insensitive window title comparisons
• Obscure name for generated python file ("outlook_vcl.py") to avoid clobbering existing NatLink files

Version 1.1 -- May 11, 2002 (Vocola-1-1.zip)

• First public release.
• Installing Perl is no longer required.
• Commands containing backslash sequences like  \;  or  \"  or  \'   are now parsed correctly.
• Application-specific commands are now recognized for applications whose name contains an underscore character.