Chimoo Timer 1.5 - MacUpdate

Chimoo Timer is a simple countdown/up timer featuring speech recognition and text-to-speech support.

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 don't want to accidentally reset.

Version 1.5:

[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 computer's date and time.
[bugfix]Problems getting a count down time to stick have been resolved.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.