Chimoo Timer doesn't hog your processor - especially when it's in the background. There are many Things a speech recognition timer is handy for. One example is as a stretch/exercise/yoga timer. Enable the speech recognition, set the countdown to an appropriate number such as thirty seconds, and then you can control the timer with your voice from the floor across the room - no buttons needed. When the timer expires, simply Say "start timer" again and it will begin counting down again. Curious how much time is left? Ask the timer - "current value" - and it will read you the remaining time. If the room you are in becomes too Noisy for speech recognition, you can even tell the timer to turn it off by saying "disable speech recognition."
Features:
* Free! (donations still appreciated ;-))
* Speech recognition for timer control; see above.
* Text to speech for counting seconds and speaking alerts.
* Optional "tick" sound on hours, minutes, or seconds.
* Count up and count down modes.
* Optional floating mini window takes up less space on your screen.
* Optional multiplier view for counting frames per second (fps), etc.
* Optional menu extra displays in the menu bar.
* Dock menu to control timer.
* Low CPU usage; especially when in background or hidden.
* Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
* Universal binary - PPC and Intel native.
* Customizable settings for what to do upon timer expiration.
* Optional feature to warn before stopping timer - great for timing important things when you don't want to accidentally reset or stop the timer.
