Chimoo Timer 1.5

Chimoo Timer is a nice tool, a countdown/up timer featuring speech recognition and text-to-speech support.
Chimoo Timer major features:
- Speech Recognition for Start, Stop, and Reset.
- Speech support for counting seconds and alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Low CPU usage, esp. when in background or hidden.
- Written in Cocoa - native for Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
Main features:
- Speech Recognition (for Start, Stop, Reset, "current value", and "disable speech recognition").
- Speech support for counting seconds, speaking alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Floating mini window mode takes up less space.
- Low CPU usage (esp. when in background or hidden).
- Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
- Multiplier view for counting elapsed frames.
- Detachable controller.
- Customizable settings for what to do upon timer expiration.
- Optional feature to warn before stopping timer - great for timing important things such as time spent working at home which you dont want to accidentally reset.
Enhancements:
- [new feature]New menu extra optionally displays timer in menu bar.
- [new feature]Dock icon can be hidden when menu extra is shown.
- [new feature] Greatly expanded text-to-speech options including count down expiration warning, ability to speak last ten seconds of a countdown, and customizable voice and speech rate settings.
- [new feature]Retooled speech recognition system with a few more options now displays standard floating speech palette.
- [new feature]New OS X style toolbar for timer control.
- [new feature]Option to display progress bar during count down.
- [new feature]Automatic repeat after delay option.
- [new feature]Ability to log current timer value and save log to a file.
- [other] Preferences reorganized.
- [other] Lots of other miscellaneous changes.
- [bugfix]Accuracy of timing is no longer affected by automatic internet updates of the computers date and time.
- [bugfix]Problems getting a count down time to stick have been resolved.