hi thanks for the info. Do you think they will ad a dos emu at some point. It would be nice to play some of the old games I have again. I assume the software speech will work with a dos emu. I have never found a software speach package that was for dos. Thanks Mike. X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0526-1, 06/28/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
----- (Original Message) ----- From: "Gilles Casse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 29, at 1:01 AM To: Oralux mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: [Oralux] Info: 0.6 beta *** La traduction en franais se trouve aprs les 3 astrisques (*) mike coulombe writes: > Hi any idea when the next version will be out... Hello, In fact, no real due date at the moment. The last tests show that there is still a little bit of work to do. For info, here is a summary of the previous enhancements. During the last weeks, the effort was focused on the Yasr environment and the audio menu. The future Oralux release will also benefit from the Emacspeak patches by Igor B. Poretsky. Midnight Commander, a powerful file browser, is customized to have a better rendering via a braille display or a screen reader. The resulting software is named mcvox. mcvox is configured so that it can automatically convert some formats to raw text: Word files, Open office files, power points and more or less the Excel files. A few features have been added to Yasr and Mike Gorse kindly taken them in account: - the user can now restart the voice synthesizer if it stops talking. - Word echo: when the user is typing, only the complete word is said. There was a crash when 0.6 alpha launched Yasr and the minimenu altogether. And we had to launch Yasr again a second or a third time. There is now a workaround for this issue. Cicero TTS in french, by Nicholas Pitre and Stephane Doyon, is embedded. A speech server has been written so that this voice synthesizer works using Emacspeak or Yasr. GNU Screen has been modified so that the list of windows is better rendered via a screen reader or a braille display. The audio menu now relies on Yasr to set up for example the internet connection. An external program such as pppconfig (dial out set up) must be called and Yasr renders the program output. At the end, the audio menu asks if the user wants to save his configuration and then call saveconfig. Saveconfig now uses dialog-oralux: the dialog software rewritten in PHP and which aims to be better rendered via braille or voice. Regards, Gilles *** Bonjour, Les derniers tests du CD montrent qu'il reste encore quelques points voir avant de livrer la version 0.6 beta. Voici un rsum des prcdentes amliorations. Durant les dernires semaines, l'effort a t consacr l'environnement yasr et au menu audio. La prochaine livraison d'Oralux bnficiera aussi des patches d'Igor B. Poretsky pour Emacspeak. Midnight Commander, un puissant navigateur de fichier, a t modifi pour tre mieux rendu par un afficheur braille ou un lecteur d'cran. Le logiciel rsultant s'appelle mcvox. mcvox est configur pour convertir en texte les fichiers Word, les fichiers d'open office, les power points et dans une certaine mesure les fichiers excel. Yasr a t tendu pour permettre la rinitialisation de la synthse vocale, prononcer mot mot le texte saisi. Ces modifications ont t prise en compte par Mike Gorse. D'autre par avec 0.6 alpha, il y avait un crash lors du lancement de Yasr et du minimenu. Ce problme a t contourn. Cicero TTS en franais, de Nicholas Pitre et Stphane Doyon, a t intgr. Un serveur vocal a t crit pour que cette synthse tourne sous Emacspeak ou Yasr. GNU Screen a t modifi pour que la liste des fentres en cours soit mieux rendu. Le menu audio utilise maintenant Yasr pour la configuration de la liaison srie. Par exemple, pour prononcer ce qu'affiche pppconfig lors de la configuration du modem srie. A la fin du menu audio, avant de demander si l'utilisateur souhaite arrter ou rebooter son pc, on demande maintenant s'il souhaite sauvegarder ses prfrences, et saveconfig est lanc. L'interface de saveconfig a t revue et est base sur dialog-oralux, une version de dialog crite en PHP et qui a surtout pour but d'tre mieux rendu vocalement. A bientt, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0526-1, 06/28/2005 Tested on: 6/28/2005 4:21:35 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
