plover2cat 3.1.1__py3-none-any.whl → 4.0.0a0__py3-none-any.whl

{plover2cat-3.1.1.dist-info → plover2cat-4.0.0a0.dist-info}/METADATA

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: plover2cat
-Version: 3.1.1
+Version: 4.0.0a0
 Summary: A CAT software for Plover
 Home-page: https://github.com/greenwyrt/plover2CAT/
 Author: plants
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 License-File: LICENSE.txt
-Requires-Dist: plover<5.0.0,>=4.0.0.dev8
+Requires-Dist: plover>=5.0.0.dev2
+Requires-Dist: PySide6-Addons>=6.9.0
 Requires-Dist: odfpy
 Requires-Dist: pyparsing>3.0.7
 Requires-Dist: spylls
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ Dynamic: license-file
 
 # plover2CAT
 
+Note: In line with the new Plover 5 release, Plover2CAT is releasing 4.0.0-alpha, which should retain all existing functionalities and is installable on Plover 5 by Github. All issues can be reported here or in Discord.
+
 Plover2CAT is a plugin for Plover, the open-source stenography engine. If the only user requirement is to write steno on the computer, this plugin is not needed as Plover is more than sufficient. Plover2CAT supplements Plover by providing some features of a computer-aided-transcription (CAT) program.
 
 ## Features Overview

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plover_cat/FlowLayout.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # copied from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41621354/
 import sys
-from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
+from PySide6 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
 
 class FlowLayout(QtWidgets.QLayout):
     def __init__(self, parent=None, margin=-1, hspacing=-1, vspacing=-1):

plover_cat/PloverCATWindow.py

@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ from sys import platform
 from tempfile import gettempdir, TemporaryDirectory
 
 
-from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
-from PyQt5.QtGui import (QBrush, QColor, QTextCursor, QFont, QFontMetrics, QTextDocument, 
+from PySide6 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
+from PySide6.QtGui import (QBrush, QColor, QTextCursor, QFont, QFontMetrics, QTextDocument, 
 QCursor, QStandardItem, QStandardItemModel, QPageSize, QTextBlock, QTextFormat, QTextBlockFormat, 
-QTextOption, QTextCharFormat, QKeySequence, QPalette, QDesktopServices, QPixmap, QIcon)
-from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QMainWindow, QFileDialog, QInputDialog, QListWidgetItem, QTableWidgetItem, 
-QStyle, QMessageBox, QDialog, QFontDialog, QColorDialog, QLabel, QMenu,
-QCompleter, QApplication, QTextEdit, QPlainTextEdit, QProgressBar, QAction, QToolButton, QDockWidget)
-from PyQt5.QtMultimedia import (QMediaPlayer, QMediaRecorder, 
-QMultimedia, QVideoEncoderSettings, QAudioEncoderSettings)
-from PyQt5.QtMultimediaWidgets import QVideoWidget
-from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt, QFile, QTextStream, QUrl, QTime, QDateTime, QSettings, QRegExp, QSize, QStringListModel, QSizeF, QTimer, QThread
+QTextOption, QTextCharFormat, QKeySequence, QPalette, QDesktopServices, QPixmap, QAction, QIcon)
+from PySide6.QtWidgets import (QMainWindow, QFileDialog, QInputDialog, QListWidgetItem, QTableWidgetItem, 
+QStyle, QStyleFactory, QMessageBox, QDialog, QFontDialog, QColorDialog, QLabel, QMenu, 
+QCompleter, QApplication, QTextEdit, QPlainTextEdit, QProgressBar,  QToolButton, QDockWidget)
+from PySide6.QtMultimedia import (QMediaPlayer, QMediaRecorder, QMediaFormat, QMediaDevices, QAudioInput)
+from PySide6.QtMultimediaWidgets import QVideoWidget
+from PySide6.QtCore import Qt, QFile, QTextStream, QUrl, QTime, QDateTime, QSettings, QRegularExpression, QSize, QStringListModel, QSizeF, QTimer, QThread
 _ = lambda txt: QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate("Plover2CAT", txt)
+from PySide6.QtTextToSpeech import QTextToSpeech
 
 import plover
 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.tabifyDockWidget(self.dockHistoryStack, self.dockPaper)
         self.tabifyDockWidget(self.dockPaper, self.dockNavigation)
         self.tabifyDockWidget(self.dockAudio, self.dockStenoData)
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         if settings.contains("geometry"):
             self.restoreGeometry(settings.value("geometry"))
         if settings.contains("windowstate"):
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.caption_cursor_pos = 0
         self.actionUndo = None
         self.actionRedo = None
+        self.tts_instance = None
         self.menu_enabling()
         self.audio_menu_enabling(False)
         self.set_shortcuts()
@@ -185,12 +186,16 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.actionOpenTranscriptFolder.triggered.connect(lambda: self.open_root())
         self.actionImportRTF.triggered.connect(lambda: self.import_rtf())
         ## audio connections
+        for output in QMediaDevices.audioOutputs():
+            self.audio_output.addItem(output.description(), output) 
         self.actionOpenAudio.triggered.connect(lambda: self.open_audio())
         self.actionRecordPause.triggered.connect(lambda: self.record_or_pause())
         self.actionStopRecording.triggered.connect(lambda: self.stop_record())
         self.actionShowVideo.triggered.connect(lambda: self.show_hide_video())
         self.actionCaptioning.triggered.connect(self.setup_captions)
         self.actionFlushCaption.triggered.connect(self.flush_caption)
+        ## tts connections
+        self.tts_setup()
         # self.actionAddChangeAudioTimestamps.triggered.connect(self.modify_audiotime)
         ## editor related connections
         self.actionClearParagraph.triggered.connect(lambda: self.reset_paragraph())
@@ -284,6 +289,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.cursor_status.setObjectName("cursor_status")
         self.statusBar.addPermanentWidget(self.cursor_status)
         self.display_message("Create New Transcript or Open Existing...")
+        # self.setStyle(QStyleFactory.create("fusion"))
 
     def set_shortcuts(self):
         """Set shortcuts for menu items using keysequence strings.
@@ -346,7 +352,8 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         QMessageBox.about(self, "Plover2CAT",
                         "Plover2CAT is built on top of Plover, the open source stenotype engine. "
                         "It owes its development to the members of the Plover discord group who provided suggestions and bug finding. "
-                        "PyQt5 and Plover are both licensed under the GPL. Fugue icons are by Yusuke Kamiyamane, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.")
+                        "PySide6 is licensed under the LGPL and Plover is licensed under the GPL. "
+                        "Fugue icons are by Yusuke Kamiyamane, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.")
 
     def open_help(self):
         """Link to Readthedocs help pages.
@@ -599,6 +606,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         """
         self.actionOpenAudio.setEnabled(not value)
         self.actionPlayPause.setEnabled(value)
+        self.audio_output.setEnabled(value)
         self.actionStopAudio.setEnabled(value)
         self.actionSkipForward.setEnabled(value)
         self.actionSkipBack.setEnabled(value)
@@ -624,6 +632,8 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             self.playRate.valueChanged.connect(self.textEdit.player.setPlaybackRate)
             self.audioDelay.setValue(self.textEdit.audio_delay)
             self.audioDelay.valueChanged.connect(self.set_audio_delay)
+            self.set_audio_output()
+            self.audio_output.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.set_audio_output)
         else:
             self.audio_label.setText("Select file to play audio")
             self.actionPlayPause.triggered.disconnect()
@@ -637,6 +647,10 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             self.update_seeker_track(0)
             self.audioDelay.valueChanged.disconnect()
             self.audioDelay.setValue(0)
+            self.audio_output.currentIndexChanged.disconnect()
+
+    def set_audio_output(self):
+        self.textEdit.player.audioOutput().setDevice(self.audio_output.currentData())
 
     def update_duration(self, duration):
         """Update duration label in GUI with duration of media.
@@ -757,7 +771,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         log.debug("Updating recent files menu.")
         self.menuRecentFiles.clear()
         self.clear_layout(self.recentfileflow)
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         recent_file_paths = settings.value("recentfiles", [])
         for dir_path in recent_file_paths:
             transcript_path = pathlib.Path(dir_path)
@@ -770,7 +784,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             self.menuRecentFiles.addAction(action)
             tb = QToolButton()
             icon = QtGui.QIcon()
-            icon.addFile(":/document-text-large.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
+            icon.addFile(":/resources/document-text-large.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
             tb.setDefaultAction(action)
             tb.setIcon(icon)
             tb.setIconSize(QSize(32, 32))
@@ -821,17 +835,17 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
 
     def change_highlight_colors(self, action):
         key = action.data()
-        el_color = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT").value(key, "black")
+        el_color = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT").value(key, "black")
         new_color = QColorDialog.getColor(QColor(el_color))
         if new_color.isValid():
-            QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT").setValue(key, new_color)
+            QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT").setValue(key, new_color)
         self.update_highlight_color()
         if self.textEdit:
             self.textEdit.get_highlight_colors()
             self.refresh_editor_styles()
     
     def update_highlight_color(self):
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         el_names = ["stroke", "text", "automatic", "field", "index"]
         self.menuHighlightColors.clear()
         for el in el_names:
@@ -1152,7 +1166,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         """Set autosave time interval that applies to all transcripts.
         """
         log.debug("User set autosave time.")
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         if settings.contains("autosaveinterval"):
             min_save = settings.value("autosaveinterval")
         else:
@@ -1167,7 +1181,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
     def autosave_setup(self, checked):
         """Set up/stop timer for autosave.
         """
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         if settings.contains("autosaveinterval"):
             min_save = settings.value("autosaveinterval")
         else:
@@ -1264,7 +1278,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         editorLayout.setObjectName(f"editorLayout_{time.time()}")
         if self.textEdit:
             self.textEdit.restore_dictionary_from_backup(self.engine)
-            self.textEdit.disconnect()
+            # self.textEdit.disconnect()
             self.breakdown_connections()
         if self.mainTabs.currentChanged.connect(self.switch_restore):
             self.mainTabs.currentChanged.disconnect()
@@ -1291,7 +1305,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
     def recentfile_store(self, path):
         """Store transcript path in settings to open.
         """
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         recent_file_paths = settings.value("recentfiles", [])
         try:
             recent_file_paths.remove(path)
@@ -1323,12 +1337,13 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         if self.textEdit:
             self.textEdit.restore_dictionary_from_backup(self.engine)
             self.breakdown_connections()
-            self.textEdit.disconnect()
+            # self.textEdit.disconnect()
         focal_transcript = self.mainTabs.widget(index)
         textEdit = focal_transcript.findChild(QTextEdit)
         if textEdit:
             self.textEdit = textEdit
-            self.textEdit.load(self.textEdit.file_name, self.engine, load_transcript = False)
+            # print(self.textEdit.file_name)
+            # self.textEdit.load(self.textEdit.file_name, self.engine, load_transcript = False)
             self.setup_connections()
         else:
             self.textEdit = None
@@ -1338,7 +1353,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         """
         self.actionUndo = self.textEdit.undo_stack.createUndoAction(self.menuEdit)
         undo_icon = QtGui.QIcon()
-        undo_icon.addFile(":/arrow-curve-180.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
+        undo_icon.addFile(":/resources/arrow-curve-180.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
         self.actionUndo.setIcon(undo_icon)
         self.actionUndo.setShortcutContext(QtCore.Qt.WindowShortcut)
         self.actionUndo.setToolTip("Undo writing or other action")
@@ -1346,7 +1361,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.actionUndo.setObjectName("actionUndo")
         self.actionRedo = self.textEdit.undo_stack.createRedoAction(self.menuEdit)
         redo_icon = QtGui.QIcon()
-        redo_icon.addFile(":/arrow-curve.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
+        redo_icon.addFile(":/resources/arrow-curve.png", QtCore.QSize(), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off)
         self.actionRedo.setIcon(redo_icon)
         self.actionRedo.setShortcutContext(QtCore.Qt.WindowShortcut)
         self.actionRedo.setToolTip("Redo writing or other action")
@@ -1373,8 +1388,8 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.update_spell_gui()
         self.spell_search.clicked.connect(lambda: self.spellcheck())
         self.spell_skip.clicked.connect(lambda: self.spellcheck())
-        self.spell_ignore_all.clicked.connect(lambda: self.sp_ignore_all())
         self.spellcheck_suggestions.itemDoubleClicked.connect(self.sp_insert_suggest)
+        self.spell_ignore_all.clicked.connect(lambda: self.sp_ignore_all())
         self.dict_selection.activated.connect(self.set_sp_dict)
         self.update_config_gui()
         self.page_width.valueChanged.connect(lambda value, key = "page_width": self.textEdit.set_config_value(key, value))
@@ -1399,6 +1414,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.style_selector.activated.connect(self.update_paragraph_style)
         self.submitEdited.setEnabled(True)
         self.submitEdited.clicked.connect(self.edit_paragraph_properties)
+        self.update_gui()
         self.search_forward.clicked.connect(lambda: self.search())
         self.search_backward.clicked.connect(lambda: self.search(-1))
         self.find_all.clicked.connect(lambda: self.search_all())
@@ -1407,15 +1423,19 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.textEdit.undo_stack.indexChanged.connect(self.check_undo_stack)
         self.textEdit.undo_stack.cleanChanged.connect(self.display_unsave)
         self.textEdit.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.context_menu)
+        self.textEdit.document().blockCountChanged.connect(lambda: self.get_suggestions())
         self.textEdit.send_message.connect(self.display_message)
         self.textEdit.send_tape.connect(self.update_tape)
-        self.textEdit.document().blockCountChanged.connect(lambda: self.get_suggestions())
         self.textEdit.cursorPositionChanged.connect(self.update_gui)
-        self.textEdit.player.videoAvailableChanged.connect(self.set_up_video)
-        if self.textEdit.player.isAudioAvailable():
+        self.textEdit.player.hasVideoChanged.connect(self.set_up_video)
+
+        # Qt 6 no longer provides isAudioAvailable()/isVideoAvailable().
+        # Use presence of an attached audio file and hasVideo() instead.
+        if getattr(self.textEdit, "audio_file", None):
             self.audio_menu_enabling()
-        if self.textEdit.player.isVideoAvailable():
-            self.set_up_video()
+
+        if self.textEdit.player.hasVideo():
+            self.set_up_video(True)
 
     def breakdown_connections(self):
         """Disconnect GUI and transcript.
@@ -1433,6 +1453,14 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             self.setup_captions(False)
         self.actionCaptioning.setChecked(False)
         self.menu_enabling()
+        self.menuParagraphStyle.clear()
+        self.menuParagraphStyle.triggered.disconnect()
+        self.style_file_path.setText("")
+        self.style_controls.setEnabled(False)
+        self.actionCreateNewStyle.setEnabled(False)
+        self.menuField.clear() # clear field submenu
+        self.menuIndexEntry.clear() # clear index submenu
+        self.parSteno.clear()        
         self.strokeList.clear()
         self.undoView.setStack(None)
         self.dict_selection.clear()
@@ -1461,24 +1489,21 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.footer_right.editingFinished.disconnect()
         self.style_selector.clear()
         self.style_selector.activated.disconnect()
-        self.textEdit.undo_stack.indexChanged.disconnect(self.check_undo_stack)
-        self.textEdit.undo_stack.cleanChanged.disconnect()
-        self.textEdit.document().blockCountChanged.disconnect()
         self.submitEdited.clicked.disconnect()
         self.submitEdited.setEnabled(False)
         self.search_forward.clicked.disconnect()
+        self.search_backward.clicked.disconnect()
         self.find_all.clicked.disconnect()
         self.replace_selected.clicked.disconnect()
         self.replace_all.clicked.disconnect()
-        self.menuParagraphStyle.clear()
-        self.menuParagraphStyle.triggered.disconnect()
-        self.style_file_path.setText("")
-        self.style_controls.setEnabled(False)
-        self.actionCreateNewStyle.setEnabled(False)
-        self.menuField.clear() # clear field submenu
-        self.menuIndexEntry.clear() # clear index submenu
-        self.parSteno.clear()
-        if self.textEdit.player.isAudioAvailable(): # clear audio connections if transcript has them
+        self.textEdit.undo_stack.indexChanged.disconnect(self.check_undo_stack)
+        self.textEdit.undo_stack.cleanChanged.disconnect()
+        self.textEdit.customContextMenuRequested.disconnect()
+        self.textEdit.document().blockCountChanged.disconnect()
+        self.textEdit.send_message.disconnect()
+        self.textEdit.send_tape.disconnect()
+        self.textEdit.cursorPositionChanged.disconnect()
+        if getattr(self.textEdit, "audio_file", None):
             self.textEdit.player.stop()
             self.audio_menu_enabling(False)
         if self.video:
@@ -1489,7 +1514,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         """Close window after saving settings and checking for multiple transcripts.
         """
         self.display_message("User selected quit.")
-        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT", "OpenCAT")
+        settings = QSettings("Plover2CAT-4", "OpenCAT")
         settings.setValue("geometry", self.saveGeometry())
         settings.setValue("windowstate", self.saveState())
         settings.setValue("windowfont", self.font().toString())
@@ -1520,7 +1545,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         if tab_page.objectName().startswith("editorTab"):
             choice = self.textEdit.close_transcript()
             if choice and self.textEdit:
-                self.textEdit.disconnect()
+                # self.textEdit.disconnect()
                 self.breakdown_connections()
                 self.textEdit = None
             elif not choice:
@@ -1726,8 +1751,9 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             if self.blockParentStyle.currentText() != style_name:
                 new_style_dict["parentstylename"] = self.blockParentStyle.currentText()
             else:
-                QMessageBox.warning(self, "Plover2CAT", "Style cannot be parent of itself.")
-                return
+                new_style_dict["parentstylename"] = ""
+                # QMessageBox.warning(self, "Plover2CAT", "Style cannot be parent of itself.")
+                # return
         if self.blockNextStyle.currentIndex() != -1:
             new_style_dict["nextstylename"] = self.blockNextStyle.currentText()
         if self.blockHeadingLevel.currentText() != "":
@@ -2476,7 +2502,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         """Search for untranslated steno.
         """
         flags = QTextDocument.FindFlags()
-        untrans_reg = QRegExp("(\\b|\\*)(?=[STKPWHRAO*EUFBLGDZ]{3,})S?T?K?P?W?H?R?A?O?\\*?E?U?F?R?P?B?L?G?T?S?D?Z?\\b")
+        untrans_reg = QRegularExpression("(\\b|\\*)(?=[STKPWHRAO*EUFBLGDZ]{3,})S?T?K?P?W?H?R?A?O?\\*?E?U?F?R?P?B?L?G?T?S?D?Z?\\b")
         if direction == -1:
             flags |= QTextDocument.FindBackward
         cursor = self.textEdit.textCursor()
@@ -2589,7 +2615,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
     def open_audio(self):
         """Select media file for playing.
         """
-        if self.textEdit.recorder.state() == QMediaRecorder.StoppedState:
+        if self.textEdit.recorder.recorderState() == QMediaRecorder.StoppedState:
             pass
         else:
             QMessageBox.information(self, "Plover2CAT", "Recording in progress. Stop recording before loading media file.")
@@ -2628,57 +2654,111 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
             self.video.show()
 
     def record_or_pause(self):
-        """Toggle between play and pause for recorder.
-        """
-        if self.textEdit.player.state() != QMediaPlayer.StoppedState:
-            self.display_message("Playing in progress. Stop media first.")
+        """Toggle between record / pause for the audio recorder."""
+        # 1) refuse to record while playback is running
+        if self.textEdit.player.playbackState() != QMediaPlayer.StoppedState:
+            self.display_message("Playback is in progress. Stop the media first.")
             return
-        else:
-            pass
-        if self.textEdit.recorder.state() == QMediaRecorder.StoppedState:
+
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+        # RECORD: recorder currently stopped
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+        if self.textEdit.recorder.recorderState() == QMediaRecorder.StoppedState:
+            # show settings dialog
             self.recorder_settings = recorderDialogWindow(self.textEdit.recorder)
-            res = self.recorder_settings.exec_()
-            if res == QDialog.Accepted:
-                self.actionStopRecording.setEnabled(True)
-                settings = QAudioEncoderSettings()
-                audio_input = self.recorder_settings.audio_device.itemText(self.recorder_settings.audio_device.currentIndex())
-                audio_codec = self.recorder_settings.audio_device.itemText(self.recorder_settings.audio_codec.currentIndex())
-                audio_container = self.recorder_settings.audio_container.itemText(self.recorder_settings.audio_container.currentIndex())
-                audio_sample_rate = int(self.recorder_settings.audio_sample_rate.itemText(self.recorder_settings.audio_sample_rate.currentIndex()))
-                audio_channels = self.recorder_settings.audio_channels.itemData(self.recorder_settings.audio_channels.currentIndex())
-                audio_bitrate = self.recorder_settings.audio_bitrate.itemData(self.recorder_settings.audio_bitrate.currentIndex())
-                audio_encoding = QMultimedia.ConstantQualityEncoding if self.recorder_settings.constant_quality.isChecked() else QMultimedia.ConstantBitRateEncoding
-                self.textEdit.recorder.setAudioInput(audio_input)
-                settings.setCodec(audio_codec)
-                settings.setSampleRate(audio_sample_rate)
-                settings.setBitRate(audio_bitrate)
-                settings.setChannelCount(audio_channels)
-                settings.setQuality(QMultimedia.EncodingQuality(self.recorder_settings.quality_slider.value()))
-                settings.setEncodingMode(audio_encoding)
-                self.textEdit.recorder.setEncodingSettings(settings, QVideoEncoderSettings(), audio_container)                
-                self.display_message(f"Audio settings:\nAudio Input: {audio_input}\nCodec: {audio_codec}\nMIME Type: {audio_container}\nSample Rate: {audio_sample_rate}\nChannels: {audio_channels}\nQuality: {audio_channels}\nBitrate: {str(QMultimedia.EncodingQuality(self.recorder_settings.quality_slider.value()))}\nEncoding:{audio_encoding}")
-                common_file_formats = ["aac", "amr", "flac", "gsm", "m4a", "mp3", "mpc", "ogg", "opus", "raw", "wav"]
-                guessed_format = [ext for ext in common_file_formats if ext in audio_container]
-                if len(guessed_format) == 0:
-                    audio_file_path = self.textEdit.file_name / "audio" / self.textEdit.file_name.stem
-                else:
-                    audio_file_path = self.textEdit.file_name / "audio" / (self.textEdit.file_name.stem + "." + guessed_format[0])
-                self.textEdit.file_name.joinpath("audio").mkdir(exist_ok = True)
-                if audio_file_path.exists():
-                    user_choice = QMessageBox.question(self, "Record", "Are you sure you want to replace existing audio?", QMessageBox.Yes | QMessageBox.No, QMessageBox.No)
-                    if user_choice == QMessageBox.Yes:
-                        self.display_message("Overwriting existing audio file.")
-                        pass
-                    else:
-                        self.display_message("Abort recording attempt due to pre-existing audio file.")
-                        return
-                self.textEdit.recorder.setOutputLocation(QUrl.fromLocalFile(str(audio_file_path)))
-                self.textEdit.recorder.record()
-                self.display_message("Recording started.")
-                self.textEdit.recorder.durationChanged.connect(self.update_record_time)
-        elif self.textEdit.recorder.state() == QMediaRecorder.RecordingState:
+            if self.recorder_settings.exec_() != QDialog.Accepted:
+                return  # user cancelled
+
+            self.actionStopRecording.setEnabled(True)
+
+            # --- collect the user’s choices --------------------------------
+            audio_device   = self.recorder_settings.audio_device.currentData()
+            audio_codec   = self.recorder_settings.audio_codec.currentData()
+            container     = self.recorder_settings.audio_container.currentData()
+            sample_rate   = int(self.recorder_settings.audio_sample_rate.currentData())
+            channels      = self.recorder_settings.audio_channels.currentData()
+            bitrate       = self.recorder_settings.audio_bitrate.currentData()
+            encoding_mode = self.recorder_settings.audio_encoding.currentData()
+            quality_enum  = QMediaRecorder.Quality(self.recorder_settings.quality_slider.value())
+
+            # --- build QMediaFormat (Qt 6 replacement for *EncoderSettings) -
+            fmt = QMediaFormat()
+
+            # codec ----------------------------------------------------------
+            # QMediaFormat expects an enum; map the user string if possible,
+            # otherwise leave codec unset and rely on container/extension.
+            # codec_map = {
+            #     "audio/mpeg": QMediaFormat.AudioCodec.MP3,
+            #     "audio/aac":  QMediaFormat.AudioCodec.AAC,
+            #     "audio/flac": QMediaFormat.AudioCodec.FLAC,
+            #     "audio/opus": QMediaFormat.AudioCodec.Opus,
+            #     "audio/wav":  QMediaFormat.AudioCodec.Wave
+            # }
+            # if audio_codec in codec_map:
+            #     fmt.setAudioCodec(codec_map[audio_codec])
+            fmt.setAudioCodec(audio_codec)
+
+            # container ------------------------------------------------------
+            # container_map = {
+            #     "audio/mpeg": QMediaFormat.Mpeg,
+            #     "audio/aac":  QMediaFormat.Mpeg4Audio,
+            #     "audio/flac": QMediaFormat.Flac,
+            #     "audio/ogg":  QMediaFormat.Ogg,
+            #     "audio/wav":  QMediaFormat.Wave
+            # }
+            # if container in container_map:
+            #     fmt.setFileFormat(container_map[container])
+            fmt.setFileFormat(container)
+
+            # ----------------------------------------------------------------
+            sel_input = QAudioInput(self.textEdit.media_recorder)
+            sel_input.setDevice(audio_device)
+            self.textEdit.media_recorder.setAudioInput(sel_input)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setMediaFormat(fmt)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setAudioSampleRate(sample_rate)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setAudioChannelCount(channels)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setAudioBitRate(bitrate)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setEncodingMode(encoding_mode)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setQuality(quality_enum)
+
+            # choose an output file name -------------------------------------
+            # common_ext = ["aac", "amr", "flac", "gsm", "m4a", "mp3", "ogg",
+            #               "opus", "raw", "wav"]
+            # guessed = [ext for ext in common_ext if ext in container]
+            # out_path = (
+            #     self.textEdit.file_name / "audio" /
+            #     (self.textEdit.file_name.stem + (("." + guessed[0]) if guessed else ""))
+            # )
+            out_path = (self.textEdit.file_name / "audio" / 
+                        (self.textEdit.file_name.stem + f".{fmt.mimeType().preferredSuffix()}"))
+            out_path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+            self.textEdit.recorder.setOutputLocation(QUrl.fromLocalFile(str(out_path)))
+            if out_path.exists():
+                if QMessageBox.question(
+                        self, "Record",
+                        "File exists. Overwrite?",
+                        QMessageBox.Yes | QMessageBox.No,
+                        QMessageBox.No) != QMessageBox.Yes:
+                    self.display_message("Recording cancelled by user.")
+                    return
+
+            # self.textEdit.recorder.setOutputLocation(QUrl.fromLocalFile(str(out_path)))
+
+            # start recording ------------------------------------------------
+            self.textEdit.recorder.record()
+            self.textEdit.recorder.durationChanged.connect(self.update_record_time)
+            self.display_message("Recording started.")
+
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+        # PAUSE
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+        elif self.textEdit.recorder.recorderState() == QMediaRecorder.RecordingState:
             self.textEdit.recorder.pause()
             self.display_message("Recording paused.")
+
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+        # CONTINUE
+        # ------------------------------------------------------------------
         else:
             self.textEdit.recorder.record()
             self.display_message("Recording continued.")
@@ -2691,6 +2771,47 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
         self.display_message("Recording stopped.")
         self.textEdit.recorder.durationChanged.disconnect()
 
+    def tts_synthesize(self):
+        pass
+
+    def tts_setup(self):
+        self.tts_instance = QTextToSpeech(self)
+        for engine in QTextToSpeech.availableEngines():
+            if engine != "mock":
+                self.tts_engine.addItem(engine)
+        self.tts_engine.setCurentIndex(0)
+        self.tts_instance.setEngine(self.tts_engine.currentText())
+        self.tts_pitch.valueChanged.connect(self.tts_set_pitch)
+        self.tts_volume.valueChanged.connect(self.tts_set_volume)
+        self.tts_rate.valueChanged.connect(self.set_rate)
+        self.tts_locale.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.tts_set_locale)
+        self.tts_voice.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.tts_set_voice)
+        self.tts_engine.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.tts_set_engine)
+
+    def tts_set_engine(self, index):
+        pass
+
+    def tts_set_locale(self, index):
+        pass
+
+    def tts_set_voice(self, index):
+        pass
+
+    def tts_set_pitch(self, pitch):
+        pitch = pitch / 10
+        if self.tts_instance:
+            self.tts_instance.setPitch(pitch)
+
+    def tts_set_volume(self, volume):
+        volume = volume / 10
+        if self.tts_instance:
+            self.tts_instance.setVolume(volume)
+
+    def tts_set_rate(self, rate):
+        rate = rate / 10
+        if self.tts_instance:
+            self.tts_instance.setRate(rate)
+
     def setup_caption_window(self, display_font, max_blocks):
         """Set a new window for displaying captions.
 
@@ -2785,7 +2906,7 @@ class PloverCATWindow(QMainWindow, Ui_PloverCAT):
                     stroke_data = current_block.userData()["strokes"]
                     track_pos = current_block.position()
             current_cursor.setPosition(track_pos, QTextCursor.MoveAnchor)
-            # current_cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor.PreviousWord, QTextCursor.MoveAnchor)
+            # current_cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor.PreviousWord, QTextCursor.MoveAnchor, 2)
         else:
             current_cursor.movePosition(QTextCursor.PreviousWord, QTextCursor.MoveAnchor, self.caption_dialog.charOffset.value())
         new_pos = current_cursor.position()