Download Speak Cal Talking Calendar version 1.0

Speak Cal Talking Calendar Documentation

FILENAME:
	speak_cal.pl
	
	
DESCRIPTION: 

	A Speaking calendar. Stores and recalls text associated with a day of the calendar.


REQUIREMENTS:
	Linux or similar OS So far it has been tested on:
		Mandriva 2007
		Debian Sarge
		Mepis 6.0

	Perl (of course)
	PerlSpeak.pm A Perl Module for text to speech
	A text to speech system like festival or cepstral.
		

		  
INSTALLING:
	No problem here just extract the files and run the speak_cal.pl script.


AUTHOR:
	Joe Kamphaus

CHANGES:
	06/17/2007 version 1.0
	Fixed problem saving text on some systems
	Added speak version feature Alt-v or Alt-a
	Added speaking help feature Alt-h

FEATURES:
	* Easy to use browser for a virtual calendar. speak_cal calendar is audio only.
	* Speaks the month, year, and day as well as any text that the user has entered
	  to be associated with that day.
	* Stores and recalls any text data the user enters and accociates it with the
	  day of the calendar the browser is on.


USAGE:
     Navigation	
     Arrow keys : Move a virtual cursor around the calendar.
     	Right : Moves to next day.
     	Left : Moves to previous day.
     	Down : Moves to next week.

     	Up : Moves to previous week.
     	
     	> : Moves to next month.
     	< : Moves to previous month.
     	
     	Moving from on day to another also causes program to automaticaly store any text that 

     	was entered and associates it with the proper day.
     	
     Commands use the alt-key sequences:
	* Alt-m : Speak month and year.
	* Alt-t : Speak text data.
	* Alt-n : Speak the day the cursor is on.

	* Alt-s : Saves text data.
	* Alt-d : Deletes text data associated with the day cursor is on.
	* Alt-x : Saves and exits.
	* Alt-a or Alt-v : Speak version of speak_cal.
	* Alt-h or Alt-? : Speak help text.

 
BUGS:
	Look for fixes on this page and or contact me.

	
	
COPYRIGHT:
	Copyright (C) 2007  Joe Kamphaus

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.