LinuxSpeaks
Linux for the blind and visually impaired
An easy to learn aural interface to the Linux operating system for the blind and visually impaired.
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Older Archived Versions of LinuxSpeaks
Documentation:
The LinuxSpeaks project is a collection of scripts and library modules that
aspire to be a comprehensive vocal, sight-free user interface to the Linux
operating system.
So far LinuxSpeaks includes:
File Manager
Text Editor (copy, cut, paste, spell check and many other features)
Web browser
Email Client
File reader (formats include: text; html; rtf; pdf; daisy; Open Office;
MSWord)
Sound Mixer
Calender With Notepad
Clock
Calculator
Weather Conditions and Forecast
Command Shell
Font Configurator
Printer Configurator
PPP Dialer and Configurator
Media Player
CD Player
CD to MP3 Ripper
Help Documentation
Game of Consentration
Blackjack Game
Voice Configurator
Auto Update
Pager
Voice Recorder
Time Configurator
Installer
Change Log:
Version 1.01
- Initial translation of prompts from english to german.
- Fixed broken readfile.pl script.
Version 1.02
- Initial translation fo prompts from english to dutch; italian; french;
portuguese. This adds to german and spanish totaling 7 different languages available.
- Fixed bugs in concentration game.
- Fixed bugs in voice config script.
Version 1.03
- Added support to shell out to bash by entering bash in the command line shell.
- Changed the default behavior for reading files, returning results from commands,
reading email, etc. Changed from using mplayer to play converted audio, to putting
them into the text editor, speaktcledit. To return to original behavior run command
echo use_editor=no > $HOME/.readfilerc from the command line shell.
Version 1.08
- Fixed even more bugs in several apletts and install script.
- Changed speech to be non blocking in several places. This speeds up menus and
editors making the system much more usable.
- Integrated a pager applett into the system and made it the default for reading files etc.
- Added a voice recorder applett.
- Added a time configure applett to set time and date either by ntp or manually.
Version 1.10
- Fixed broken prompts.
- Fixed Tcl8.4 install bug in install script.
- Cleaned up some of the code.
Version 2.21
- Fixed alsa errors on some systems for editor.
- Added new features for web browser: User selection of Bookmarks;
User selection of home page; Email links open the speakmail program.
- Fixed main menu on startup asking user to setup programs and or
read the documentation. This is no longer the default.
- Added cdplayer written in perl pcd. The default is still to use
dcd but it has trouble on some systems. To use pcd set enviroment
variable CDP=pcd.
INSTALLING:
If you have a Debian distribution or similar (eg. ubuntu) just run the
install.sh script as root or via sudo. This script attempts to install
the dependencies for you, using apt-get, as well as installing the
LinuxSpeaks binaries, shared files, and configuration files. It has been
tested on debian 4.0r1 i386 and had no problem with it.
If you have a Fedora Core or Redhat like system with yum installed you can
try to run "install.sh yum", although I've had some problems because there is
no mplayer package on which Linux Speaks relies. I have had some luck installing
totem and making a symolic link pointing to it named mplayer.
cd /usr/bin
ln -s totem mplayer
There is also problems because no package for lame is in the yum repository.
This breaks the program that rips and encodes CD audio to MP3 files. No easy
workaround is known at this time.
Detailed text instructions and tips to install LinuxSpeaks on a clean
Debian System can be found HERE.
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