SpeakTab 10.14.62 — Written strums in reading and playback

SpeakTab 10.14.62 adds written guitar strum directions to accessible reading and playback, while retaining the accepted menus, loops and quieter interface from60.

• Read supplied stroke marks: Guitar Pro upstrokes, downstrokes and brush/arpeggio directions appear at their written score positions. They remain available in full, concise and compact reading, F3 details, the Written guitar patterns view, and saved readings.
• Hear directional playback: Marked guitar chords use a short spread from low strings to high for a downstroke, and high to low for an upstroke. This is an approximation using the existing guitar samples. Written beat positions, note endpoints, ties, rests, loop limits and repeats are retained.
• No invented pattern: Unmarked chords play as before. Directions are not guessed from chord names or carried into later unmarked positions. Reopen an original score to recover marks that versions60 and earlier discarded from a saved reading.
• Accepted Alt menu entry, score arrows, loop confirmations, bookmark controls, F5/Enter/F6 chat controls and F12 speech controls remain. Ctrl+Shift+I provides supplied score information, including capo; Ctrl+4 tuning behavior is unchanged.

Known optional AI teacher limitation

The live AI teacher can reject dense or long score passages with an instruction-token-limit error. This is not fixed in62. The user encountered it with the Chopin reading; the recording setup also prevented complete live microphone acceptance. The issue is being investigated separately. Smaller excerpts may help but are not a guaranteed workaround. Ordinary local reading, musical playback, loops and bookmarks work without AI.

The user reported that the other local tests went well and explicitly authorized publication with this limitation documented. The main gate and all 100 focused software checks passed, including stroke directions, native selected rows, save/reopen, unmarked readings, written repeats, ties and loop boundaries. This evidence does not certify every score, device, microphone or external service.

Downloads and documentation

Download SpeakTab-Windows.zip, extract the complete ZIP into its own folder and run SpeakTab.exe. Keep its recognition runtime, fixtures, licences and native guides together. Windows with .NET Framework4.8 is required. Existing installations can use the in-app updater.

Read SpeakTab.62.Changes.and.Known.Limit.txt for the current additions and teacher limitation. The reviewed 65-page full Word/text/HTML manual, Quick Start, testing steps and three-page podcast guide remain version60 references for unchanged controls; they have not been relabelled as new62 manuals. The62 supplement and matching native guides are included in the downloads. SpeakTab-Source.zip is the complete source handoff with documentation; GitHub's automatic source archives are only the repository snapshot.

MusicXML/MuseScore part choice and lyrics, wordless vocal previews, supported instruments, practice notes, exports and score information remain. Playback covers one selected part at a time; source quality limits supplied detail. Named ornaments are not all expanded into performed notes.

The package executable exactly matches the accepted installed62 build. Source manifests, production updater extraction and privacy checks were verified before publication. Private music, saved readings, settings, credentials and diagnostic dumps are excluded. Previously published releases and their assets are preserved. The teacher tabs installed locally are not redistributed in these packages.