This index is outdated. Please check the archive for newest content. For questions please contact hzo@leb.net -------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF DIRECTORY /pub/blinux last revised 31 December 1997 0420 GMT THIS DOCUMENT IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR (4) PARTS: PART 1: SPEECH and BRAILLE SYNTHESIS PART 2: SPEECH RECOGNITION PART 3: GENERAL APPS PART 4: PORTABLES ==================================== PART 1. SPEECH and BRAILLE SYNTHESIS ==================================== abt320-3.0.bin.tar.gz (90k) --------------------- Jos Lemmens' driver for the Alva Braille Terminal. The abt320 binary is intended for braille terminals with firmware 010495 or later. If you have older firmware please contact Jos Lemmens at . This version includes a screen-reading option which allows you to link your favourite Text-to-Speech software to abt320. (released 14 July 1997) brltty-1.0.2.tar.gz (108k) ------------------- Access software for Unix for a blind person using a soft (refreshable) Braille terminal. Freeware. (Version 1.0.2, released 07 September 1996) emacspeak/cornell.mirror/emacspeak-7.0.tgz (408k) ------------------------------------------ Emacspeak 98, a.k.a. Emacspeak version 7.0, is a major upgrade of the speech output extension to Emacs. Like its predecessor, Emacspeak 97++, Emacspeak 98 uses InterActive Accessibility technology (IAA) to provide a powerful, Internet-ready audio desktop, that completely integrates Internet technologies, including Web surfing and messaging, into all aspects of the electronic desktop. The result is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete eyes-free access to all major open 32 and 64 bit operating systems. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and electronic messaging into the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local and remote information with a consistent andwell-integrated user interface. Requires either a Dectalk speech synthesizer or an Emacspeak driver. For more information, please consult the Emacspeak home page, URL: http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak emacspeak/blinux/emacspeak-6.0-2.i386.rpm (480k) ----------------------------------------- Redhat package manager (rpm) for Emacspeak 6.0 (contributor: Jim Van Zandt , released 27 October 1997) emacspeak/blinux/emacspeak-bs-0.3.tar.gz (49k) ---------------------------------------- Jim Van Zandt's alpha version of an Emacspeak driver which can talk to a Braille 'n Speak, Braille Lite, or Type 'n Speak. NOTE: The first version of this driver was labeled 1.1. However, since it is much less mature than the DoubleTalk driver, Jim decided to reset the Braille 'n Speak version number to reflect its immaturity. The only functional change in this version is that frequency and pitch codes are used to simulate multiple voices. (Through an error, the previous version speaks the DECtalk commands to change voices.) In Jim's initial announcement, he noted that when he tested the driver, he found that the computer and the Braille 'n Speak disagreed on the rate of the serial port. He has since learned from the device's manufacturer, Deane Blazie , that some versions do indeed set the serial port for twice the claimed speed. Installing the latest firmware will fix this. In the mean time, you will have to experiment with your device to find the setting that works. The driver will set the computer's serial port to 19200 bits per second. emacspeak/blinux/emacspeak-dt-0.29.tar (55k) -------------------------------------- Jim Van Zandt's beta version of an Emacspeak driver for the DoubleTalk LT (external), the DoubleTalk PC (internal), the LiteTalk (parallel and serial) synthesizers. Since the LiteTalk crashes when it gets a tone command, the driver now uses the interrogate() results to decide whether tone commands are implemented. (Thanks to Dave Cohen for tracking this down.) The new release also converts some carriage returns to nulls before writing. This eliminates some extra "carriage return"s when punctuation is set to "all". This version also fixes an interface bug. The DoubleTalk documentation states that text is spoken only after a null byte or a carriage return is written to the device. If a Clear command (control-X) is written first, the text is never spoken. It turns out that the same is true of device commands such as the one that sets the punctuation mode. The driver now terminates all device commands with carriage returns, and several things work that did not before. For example, you will get a tone when you cursor down to a blank line. Previous Bug Fixes: 1) with punctuation mode set to "all", the DoubleTalk will speak forward slashes and other characters which were not spoken in earlier releases; 2) rapid typing no longer kills the driver; 3) looks for the special device file in /dev/dtlk; 4) memory leak eliminated; 5) minor code cleanup which should allow some older devices to respond to the -V switch. Known Bugs: 1) Emacspeak is supposed to let you set the punctuation mode to "all", "some" or "none". However, this has no effect with the DoubleTalk PC. Please address feedback on this driver to Jim Van Zandt (This driver was released 23 November 1997 and supports Emacspeak version 7.0 and older) emacspeak/blinux/emacspeak-dt-0.27-1.i386.rpm (18k) --------------------------------------------- RedHat Package Manager for Jim Van Zandt's DoubleTalk/LiteTalk driver for Emacspeak. (released 27 October 1997) emacspeak/blinux/emacspeak-dt_0.26-1_i386.deb (20k) --------------------------------------------- Jim Van Zandt's Debian package manager for his DoubleTalk/LiteTalk driver for Emacspeak. (released 27 October 1997) emacspeak/blinux/d-exp-1.9.tar.gz (38k) --------------------------------- Emacspeak driver for the DECtalk Express. Written in C, it is a drop-in replacement for the TCL interface supplied by Emacspeak author T.V. Raman and is made available under the GNU copyleft. (Note: This driver works with Emacspeak 6.0 and older) CHANGES/FIXES: Fixed bad buffer handling and handshaking. Eliminated a memory leak. Log file names changed. Accepts both old and new Emacspeak commands. Accepts multiline commands. Switch -V speaks program version number. Released 9 August 1997. Please address feedback on this driver to Jim Van Zandt emacspeak/blinux/dtlk-1.12.tar.gz (38k) --------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: Linux device driver for the DoubleTalk PC (internal DoubleTalk). This driver is written as a "module", which means it is linked into the running kernel by insmod. Therefore, you do not need to recompile the kernel in order to use the DoubleTalk driver. FEATURES: Includes a script (/usr/local/sbin/dtlk-install) to install the module and create the special device file. Automatic configuration using GNU autoconf. Manual pages for the device file and installer. Please address questions and/or comments to the author, Jim Van Zandt (released 3 October 1997) Emacspeak-HOWTO.txt ------------------- plain ASCII version of Jim Van Zandt's HOWTO file, a hypertext version of which can be found at http://leb.net/blinux/Emacspeak-HOWTO.html (Revision date 14 December 1997) screader/screader-1.3.bin.tar.gz (126k) -------------------------------- Screader is Jos Lemmens' new screen reader for Linux 1.1.92+, which uses a software Text-To-Speech package. It reads the screen information from the device /dev/vcsa0 and puts it through to a TTS. The file /opt/etc/abt320/tts contains the name(s) of the TTS to be used by screader. This program is a modification of the 'screen' package. Future releases will be independent of 'screen'. At that time it will be possible to read the screen from every vertual console. Currently, screader will only work on the current virtual console. If you want to use screader on another virtual console you have to run screader again on that console. Please address any feedback to the author, Jos Lemmens (release date 19 October 1997) screader/screader-1.0-1.i386.rpm -------------------------------- screader/screader-1.0-1.rc.rpm ------------------------------ RedHat package managers for screader-1.0 screen-3.8.6.tar.gz ------------------- speak-0.3.tar.gz (58kb) ---------------- Title: SPO256-AL2 Text-to-Speech Services, version 1.0 This package comprises a network TCP text-to-speech server designed for the SPO256-AL2 text-to-speech board, as dscribed in the January '97 issue of the Linux Journal. This server is now implemented as a generic rc.d startable "service" with standardized (server independent) utilities, and may be used to develop other network-wide text-to-speech services for different hardware. This release adds new functionality to both the server and vmon utilities. Should be portable to virtually any UNIX system. (released March 23, 1997) W3blinds1.0.tar.gz (20k) ------------------------ 'W3-Access for Blind People' is intended to make web-surfing easier for blind people. Structure information in HTML documents is transformed on the fly into a form, that can be read easier by visually handicapped. Assumes familiarity with a screen reader and requires a W3-browser. Works with any W3-browser and every screen reader, so no additional software has to be installed at the user's computer. (released 7.9.1995; archived 11 August 1996) Speaking xmailbox: xmailbox-2.4mod.tar.gz (42k) ----------------------------------------- A modified xmailbox program, written by Mihai Manolescu , which is able to speak the From: and Subject: fields from incoming mail. To run Speaking xmailbox, you need: * the patched xmailbox source * a python interpreter, available from ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src * a piece of hardware which will generate the speech * speech synthesis software (speaking xmailbox was created using rsynth-2.0 on a linux box; rsynth-2.0.tgz is available from ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux) Everything is platform/system independent, so if your *NIX machine has audio capabilities you should be lucky enough to find a speech synthesis program and start this xmailbox. The latest information about xmailbox can always be found at: http://bip.golana.pub.ro/~mmihai/xmb/ xmb+say-linux.tar.gz (70k) -------------------- Binary distribution of the xmailbox, say, and ugotmail programs. You will need a python interpreter to run these programs. ========================== PART 2. SPEECH RECOGNITION ========================== ears-0.31.tar.gz (174 kb) ---------------- Single word speech recognition, speaker-dependent and for small vocabularies. The ALPHA version does not have a unit for driving a shell, and recognition is not optimal, but it is fine for playing and will be improved. Soundcard with mic, FPU required Author: ralf@ark.franken.de (Ralf W. Stephan) (released 18 march 1997; archived 18 march 1997) hmm-1.03.tar.gz (13k) --------------------- "Hidden Markov Model" for automatic speech recognition. (archived 20 August 1996) lotec-2.0.tar.gz (k) ---------------- The Lotec Speech Recognition Package, version 2, enables you to easily build a single-speaker, small-vocabulary, low-quality continuous speech recognition module, for use as part of a larger system. Hardware required: SUN SparcStation, decent microphone. Software Required: SunOS 4.1.2 (Unix plus the "multimedia" library files in /usr/demo/SOUND), X, and if you want to compile, gcc (the gnu C compiler) (released March 1995 by Nigel Ward ) recnet-1.3.tar.gz (596k) ------------------------ recnet is a complete speech recognition system for the DARPA TIMIT and Resource Management tasks. It uses recurrent networks to estimate phone probabilities and Markov models to find the most probable sequence of phones or words. (archived 20 August 1996) ==================== PART 3. GENERAL APPS ==================== lynx/lynx2-7-1.zip (1125k) -------------------------- April 4, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7.1 (incorporates the 15 February 1997 Lynx 2.7 distribution with all subsequent bugfixes) lynx/lynx2-7-1.tar.gz (981k) ----------------------------- April 4, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7.1 (incorporates the 15 February 1997 Lynx 2.7 distribution with all subsequent bugfixes) lynx/lynx2-7-1.tar.Z (1497k) ----------------------------- April 4, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7.1 (incorporates the 15 February 1997 Lynx 2.7 distribution with all subsequent bugfixes) lynx/lynx271f.zip (1M) ----------------- Deceember 30, 1997 patch archive for Lynx 2.7.1: Break out lynx271f.zip with the -u flag (after breakout of the April 4, 1997 release, lynx2-7-1.zip, which is available from this FTP archive) to have the new modules replace those with bugs, and then make a clean new Lynx image. lynx/lynx271f.zip-lst (36k) --------------------- Lists contents of lynx/lynx271f.zip lynx/FOTEMODS (109k) ------------- CHANGES file for lynx/lynx271f.zip -- note that the filename is all caps. lynx/lynx2-7/lynx2-7.zip (1108k) ------------------------ February 15, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7 lynx/lynx2-7/lynx2-7.tar.gz (976k) --------------------------- February 15, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7 lynx/lynx2-7/lynx2-7.tar.Z (1472k) ---------------------------------- February 15, 1997 release of Lynx version 2.7 lynx/lynx2-7/27bugfixes.zip (168k) ---------------------------------- Bug fixes for the February 15, 1997 Lynx version 2.7: Break out 27bugfixes.zip with -u (after breakout of the February 15, 1997 release, lynx2-7.zip, which is available from this FTP archive) to have the new modules replace those with bugs, and then make a clean new Lynx image. (released: 27 March 1997) lynx/.lynxrc ------------ Blind-tailored default settings file for use with the 2.7.1 distribution. (Note the dot before the 'l' in 'lynxrc') lynx/lynx.cfg ------------- Blind-tailored configuration file for the 2.7.1 distribution. nfbtrans748.zip (200k) ---------------------- A high quality Grade 2 braille translation program. Performs both back- and forwards-translation) Does not support braille graphics and cannot translate WordPerfect files unless they are converted to ascii first. Supported platforms: MSDOS, Unix. (released February 6, 1997) tables2.zip (17k) ----------------- New foreign language tables for nfbtrans748.zip, the free grade two braille translator with complete C source included. Tables include: * ICELAND.TAB * DANISH.TAB * SWEDISH.TAB * NORWEG.TAB * DUTCH.TAB (standard uncontracted form) * DUTCH3.TAB (Grade 3 Dutch Braille used in Holland and Belgium) * SPANISH2.TAB (Grade 2, "Grado Dos") w3.tar.gz (326k) ---------------- version 2.2.26 -- a full-fledged web browser which runs under EMACS. when used with Emacspeak, hot links are reported using the Dectalk's different voices. ================= PART 4. PORTABLES ================= sbrecog1.zip (339k) ------------------- A speaker dependent speech recognizer that works on DOS machines with soundblaster compatible sound cards. Potentially portable to Linux. Anyone wishing to undertake the porting is asked to keep the BLINUX Documentation Project apprised of his/her progress and to make alpha and beta versions of the port available via this FTP Archive. (archived 20 August 1996) UltraSonix.source-7.0.tar.Z (2.4 Meg) ------------------------------------- (released 03.09.96; archived 08.10.96) UltraSonix.FAQ (15k) -------------------- plain ASCII FAQ for UltraSonix *** END OF FILE ***