The new documentation should be checked for full details. New in Build 1082. Support for WhatsApp web. New in Build 1081. ChatGPT5 is available on the ChatGPT menu, Chat Key then M. An item is available at the bottom of the menu to change between the two models. Because the ChatGPT response can take some time to compute, a sound will now play to indicate progress. Unlike previous versions, you can now use your computer until the response is available. New in Build 1080. The Leasey installer is now compatible with JAWS 2026. When installing Leasey into this version, you are asked if you would like to import settings from JAWS 2025 or 2024. A new option is available within Leasey Help, Leasey Key then H: it is called Toggle Whether Leasey update notifications are spoken when JAWS is started. When enabled, and JAWS is restarted, after a short pause Leasey will check to see if a new update is available. If a new update is found, you will hear the Leasey logo sound played quietly and concise directions on how to update your copy of Leasey. An adjustment was made to the radio directory as on some machines the latest list of stations was not being retrieved. When pressing the Leasey key followed by ALT+E to create a new Outlook Email from anywhere, there is no longer a problem in respect of formatting of the sender name when it is received. In various aspects of Leasey weather, quotation marks should no longer be part of some of the output. In YouTube, press ALT+Control+Windows+Comma to decrease speed of audio playback and ALT+Control+Windows+Full-Stop or Period to increase the rate. Note there is no setting so as to return to normal. Implemented Leasey Dice Roller to Leasey Games. Please refer to the Games section of the documentation for details. New in Build 1079. In Notepad, F3 and Shift+F3 now perform the native Notepad functions rather than using Leasey's Find Again feature. Should you wish to use Leasey's Find Again rather than the native Notepad functionality, you should press the Leasey key then Control+N. Notification rules are available to suppress additional unwanted speech in Notepad for Windows11. Go to the Backup and Restore Manager, Leasey key then Control+Shift+B, Import notification rules. New in Build 1078. Adjustments made for the retrieval of donated ChatGPT API keys. When text is selected in Notepad, it should now automatically be added to the Leasey Notes Buffer as it is in other supported applications. New in Build 1077. 1. Considerable speed improvements. A number of the Leasey scripts used for processing data have moved to their own server. Beta testers are reporting very significant increases in performance. The tools which benefit from the speed increase include Leasey Radio, Sports and Games, Podcasts, RSS, time zone conversions, Chat GPT. It will be worth updating just for that benefit. 2. When in podcasts, keystrokes have been introduced so as to set the speed control, pause and play, and to skip forward and back by various time increments. This was a customer requested feature arising from the recent Leasey training course. ALT+Control+Windows+P: Play and pause the audio. ALT+Control+Windows+Left and Right Arrow: Skip back and forward by five seconds. ALT+Control+Windows+1 and 2: Skip back and forward by 30 seconds. ALT+Control+Windows+3 and 4: Skip back and forward by 1 minute. ALT+Control+Windows+5: Change speed. As directed, after this keystroke is pressed, use Up and Down Arrow keys to change speed and Escape to save. 3. It is now easier to move to the Windows Volume Mixer so as to adjust the volume level of apps which are running. Find it under Leasey Audio, Leasey Key then A. 4. Within ChatGPT, a keystroke is available to copy all of the response to the clipboard, ALT+Control+Windows+C. 5. It is now easier to set the location of backups for JAWS scripts and Leasey settings. Documentation, Backup and Restore Manager. 6. Within outlook, a keystroke is available to output whether there are any conflicts on your calendar when creating an appointment. This applies to yourself or colleagues at work whose calendars you may be sharing. Focus on the appointment start time and press Control+Windows+T. 7. When opening a message in Outlook, and JAWS recites the author and subject prior to reading the message, Leasey can now eliminate the author and just read the subject. This was a customer requested feature, ALT+Windows+F. 8. In Sports and Games, Leasey now has access to American football NFL and NCAA games. 9. In Sports and Games, Baseball, an adjustment has been made to compensate for an API deficiency. When changing innings, the score becomes irratic for approximately 90 seconds. 10. A keystroke is in place to recite a focused Leasey Sticky Note if available, Leasey Key then Y. 11. Perplexity was added to the list of AI tools, Leasey Key then Control+Shift+T. 12. When using the keystrokes to output the JAWS, Leasey or Windows version numbers, these are now copied to the clipboard automatically. The JAWS version also now contains the build number being used. 13. When adding an RSS feed, vertical bar characters are removed if they are present as part of the name. 14. When launching the Podcast Viewer and RSS tools, the windows are now automatically maximised. 15. ChatGPT5 is being used for some of the tools within Leasey and ChatGPT integration so as to improve speed. 16. Finally, considerable speed improvements when transcribing audio files to text. Taking the most recent episode of the Double Tap podcast, the upload time is 21 seconds and the transcript time is 42 seconds. New in Build 1076. Internal code changes. New in Build 1075. Corrected a problem when selecting text using JAWS 2025 and Microsoft Word. JAWS no longer announces unwanted speech. Backing up Leasey settings: A copy of ChatGPT conversations is now made. The next major feature upgrade is August 2025. New in Build 1074. Internal changes have been made to ChatGPT. In ChatGPT, automatic reading of responses has now been moved to the Chat Menu, Chat Key then M. New in Build 1073. Adjustments have been made to improve the compatibility of WhatsApp with JAWS 2025. For example, pressing function key F1 to start recording should be more responsive. New in build 1072. Fixed a customer reported issue which could stop Custom Help from displaying and being created. New in Build 1071. The command Leasey Key then I when used within Modern Notepad should now correctly report the total number of lines in the document. New in build 1070. When setting the sports and games timer for five minutes, the setting was not being honoured. This is now fixed. New in Build 1069. Introduced a new module, Leasey Sports and Games. Covers soccer, baseball, cricket, tennis and basketball. When using the keystroke Leasey key then ALT+Shift+S to shut down the computer, or Leasey key ALT+Shift+R to restart, the processes to do so should be faster than before. When using the Focus 14 Braille display, it is now possible to press With-Sign Chord to mute or unmute speech. This was functioning on the Focus 40 model but not the 14. New in Build 1068. LeaseyCloud has been removed. The full documentation chapter relating to the Backup and Restore Manager has been rewritten to accommodate this. It is now possible to transcribe longer audio files to text. We recommend a maximum of two hours in length per file. You can choose either to transcribe with speaker identification or without. Weather monitor can be activated or deactivated with the Leasey key then Shift+M. You will now hear the current temperature as well as the change in weather condition. In Outlook, when pressing ALT+Windows+U to launch an audio file from a message, a .wav file in addition to an .mp3 file can be detected. New in Build 1067. Leasey News. When a news source has been viewed in the Results Viewer, pressing Escape now sets focus back to the list of news sources and categories as was the case with Leasey version 9. RSS Reader. Pressing the Leasey key then ALT+Left Arrow moves back to the list of feeds. RSS Reader. If a feed article contains links, such as those related to shopping deals, these links are now preserved. However, we still ensure that articles are as clean and as accessible as possible. RSS Reader. Some feeds which were not functioning in Leasey were accessible using the Lire application. These should now be processed by Leasey as well. New in build 1066. ChatGPT. Considerable improvements. Provides a full HTML view with links and tables where appropriate. Results are gathered from the web as a priority so the latest information is retrieved. Chapter 1 of the ChatGPT documentation should be read for a full understanding of new features. ChatGPT. When uploading audio for transcription, progress indicators are given in 20 percent increments. Results Viewer. When using JAWS, the Results Viewer should correctly gain focus when it is deployed. Speech History. Pressing JAWS Key+Space then H should give results faster. As an alternative, press Control+Grave Accent then H. Winamp. The three scripts for reporting elapsed time, total time and remaining time have been refined to give accurate output. Weather. You can now get directly to the weather app with the Leasey key Shift+W. Podcasts. If you've viewed a podcast feed from your updates, you can now get back to the list of those podcasts which have updates with the Leasey key then ALT+Left Arrow. New in Build 1064. Completely new radio directory. Hotkey Help now contains the ability to ask Leasey about keystrokes. Hotkey help now contains an option to toggle whether JAWS Key+T causes JAWS to announce the window visual state. Internal modification to download Leasey Games. Changes to importing OPML files for RSS feeds. Earlier builds. ChatGPT integration. New Podcast Manager and player. New RSS reader. New authorisation system. New check for updates. New date and time utilities. Refactored Hotkey Help and documentation. Preliminary support for Mozilla Thunderbird. New Personal Backup and Restore utility. Revised backing up and restoring of JAWS settings. List of AI Tools, Leasey key then Control+Shift+T. Leasey key then Windows+Comma appends focused line of text to the Windows clipboard. Pressing ALT+Windows+M from within an Outlook calendar appointment will launch the Zoom or Teams meeting automatically if it exists. Pressing ALT+Windows+U from within the body of an Outlook Email message will play an MP3 audio file if it is an attachment.