[libreoffice-users] Re: How to edit a signature file into a PDF document
Le 04/12/2014 02:08, john herron a écrit : Hi John, Master PDF Editor for Linux will let you do all this and more. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
I have not looked in a long time... I have trouble with my wrists sometime, so, it would be nice if I had something that would integrate... Been a few years since I looked so perhaps it is time for another look. On 12/03/2014 04:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) We have the same thread going on the Accessibility Mailing List now too. It might be worth looking at it through the Nabble or GMane interfaces. Over there Eric suggested NaturallySpeaking 13 but had several good detailed points about issues relating to the whole area of speech and voice recognition. Well worth a read if this area interests you but it's about as long as one of my longer mails. Interesting though! :) Wrt Bible, Koran or Torah study programs Linux does have quite a large range of different packages to help. For the Bible there are different programs to cover different versions (such as the King James(?) vs whatever and whatever else). Of course each person needs something slightly different so i can well imagine Andrew's typical hefty research into a topic of interest didn't find anything to suit him but something there might suit you, if you are interested. Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2014 at 04:55, Walther Koehler wrote: High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? Have a good day Walther Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric: On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service representative"). It is not and never will be a system for general-purpose speech recognition. The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding speech recognition to Linux Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes audio cleanly under most conditions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit a signature file into a PDF document
How about Insert- Image- From File ? Or click on the icon at the bottom of the page, near the right end, says "From File" when you hover over it, Keith On 04/12/14 12:08, john herron wrote: A paper form has been sent to me to be filled out. I scanned it as a PDF file into my Mint Maté 17 box, opened it in LO Draw (v. 4.2.7.2), typed the necessary data into the relevant locations, then re-exported the edited file as PDF. The edited file, containing the added text, opens properly in other applications such as Adobe Reader or Document Viewer. In Draw I then tried to add a PNG signature file to the PDF, but the "File" option of the "Insert" menu is greyed out, so that I don't know how to add the signature file to the PDF. I cannot do it manually because my handwriting is impaired. What should I do? Thanks for helping. jdh -- God bless you Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW Ph 02 67924890 Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] How to edit a signature file into a PDF document
A paper form has been sent to me to be filled out. I scanned it as a PDF file into my Mint Maté 17 box, opened it in LO Draw (v. 4.2.7.2), typed the necessary data into the relevant locations, then re-exported the edited file as PDF. The edited file, containing the added text, opens properly in other applications such as Adobe Reader or Document Viewer. In Draw I then tried to add a PNG signature file to the PDF, but the "File" option of the "Insert" menu is greyed out, so that I don't know how to add the signature file to the PDF. I cannot do it manually because my handwriting is impaired. What should I do? Thanks for helping. jdh -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Voice Recognition
Hi :) For those interested in the Voice Recognition threads here the Accessibility Mailing List got an excellent answer from someone who really knows what's going on, please see below ... There is an amazing amount going on in accessibility these days but if you would like to join in i'm sure there is plenty of room to get involved. The accessibility mailing list itself is more of a user-support mailing list, like this one, but gets hardly any posts or chatter. The work seems to be mostly on the developer's side of things right now but now some major hurdles have been over-come or reduced in scale somewhat that could change. Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2014 at 13:56, Niklas Johansson wrote: > Hi Jean-Philippe > > Well, I'd say that we have basic working accessibility support on Mac. It > is by far the platform that needs most love when it comes to accessibility. > But it is possible to work with VoiceOver to edit text, Calc sheets and so > on. Basic text formatting such as bold, italic, font size and alignment is > available thanks to Boris work one and a half year ago. Also information of > spelling errors can be presented. Style formatting is worse, I guess an > ugly way to find out the current style is to open Styles and formatting by > pressing Command + T, the current style is sadly not presented > automatically so you need to arrow down one and back up again to have the > style presented. > > We have problems with all menus except top level menus, so in other words > combo boxes, drop down buttons and context menus are not accessible at the > moment. > Also VoiceOver commands are not always implemented correctly so keyboard > shortcuts don't always work as in other Mac applications. > LibreOffice had issues with text boxes in dialogs, but I believe I have > found a way to fix it, or possibly someone else have fixed it in master > during my experimentations with the code, either way it will likely be > fixed soon. I'll keep trying to improve the situation but to be honest my > knowledge is not always good enough, but I learn as I go. I'm doing this in > my spare time and it is quite frankly I do not have enough spare time. I'm > alone in translating into Swedish so I'm quite swamped with translation > work at the moment. > > I would love to have contact with anyone that might be using VoiceOver. > > Regards, > Niklas Johansson > > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe skrev den 2014-12-03 10:38: > > Hi. >> >> Thanks for this info. Actually I wonder how LO behaves with voiceover, >> that is, is it possible to browse between toolbars, in the menus, the >> dialogs, etc. For example, is it easy to handle styles and charachters >> formatting? >> >> The question is asked to me by a blind user to do tests. I am aware of >> the lack of resource for this architectuure, but I wonder if someone tested >> anyway; >> >> Regards >> >> - Alex Thurgood a écrit : >> >>> Le 03/12/2014 00:52, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe a écrit : >>> >>> Hi Jean-Philippe >>> >>> >>> Does someone is LibreOffice is accessible with VoiceOver as 4.3.4? Accessible in which way ? >>> >>> My recent testing of VoiceOver on OSX 10.10.1 and LO 4334 and master >>> build 4.5.0 alpha shows that it mostly works for announcing text >>> paragraphs from a pre-existing Writer document and using keyboard >>> commands to jump from one text block to another. >>> >>> I haven't tested speech input, if that is what you are asking about. >>> There is an open, as yet unconfirmed, bug report that speech input >>> stopped working with LO 4.3. >>> >>> The simple fact of the matter is that there are very few Mac QA testers, >>> and even fewer that use or need VoiceOver, one of the reasons being that >>> assistive technology tools tended to cause LO to crash in previous >>> versions, and thus general advice was to deactivate them when using LO. >>> >>> >>> Alex >>> >> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 03/12/14 12:55, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows? No. The entire field is wrapped up in mathematical algorithms that have been illegally granted patents. > That is what the speech recognition really us needed. All of that was available, before Nuance decided that they would help those with a11y requirements by ensuring that R&D was stopped, and working products were pulled from the market place. Indeed, the achievement that Nuance is proudest of, is that those with a11y needs no longer have the tools that would help them. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 12/03/2014 07:55 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I see on TV "Dragon Natural Speaking". That is the "NaturalSpeaking" your have listed below, right? yes. Which package[s] is[are] good for Linux - i.e. Debian based ones like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. none so far. they are all windows based and will stay that way. this is why I'm trying to make encyst windows and DNS (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) inside of kvm. Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows? none. all useful speech reco is decidedly not libre. Nuance is really locked up that way. It would be real nice to get a Linux Box set up for a neighbor that is blind - since I do not have a spare Windows system and she cannot afford to buy the Windows OS like Win7. Be nice to have it set up for "reading" e-books - in their epub format or converted to text - instead of trying to find audio book copies. Of course you will need the voice commands to run the system to get the "box" to find the book, play, pause, stop, go back, etc.. That is what the speech recognition really us needed. look into making a simple Braille keypad with those controls using a rasberry pi. you probably could make the whole ebook reader out of one. feel free to contact me off list for design ideas. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
On 12/02/2014 11:55 PM, Walther Koehler wrote: High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. ooh, that is old stuff. you should look for a sale on DNS 13 this month. nuance should have preferred on sale for 100$ instead of 200$. pick yourself up an logitech h800 headset form staples and off you go. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? via voice was the package of choice for court stenographers because it could be tuned but overall NaturallySpeaking was a better choice. look up natlink/vocola for a python based extension environment to nat-speak. -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? because VBox has really lousy audio handling. could not get a clear stream of audio to nat-speak so recognition was terrible. hoping I can get/find a solution for kvm and usb audio. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
I see on TV "Dragon Natural Speaking". That is the "NaturalSpeaking" your have listed below, right? Which package[s] is[are] good for Linux - i.e. Debian based ones like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows? It would be real nice to get a Linux Box set up for a neighbor that is blind - since I do not have a spare Windows system and she cannot afford to buy the Windows OS like Win7. Be nice to have it set up for "reading" e-books - in their epub format or converted to text - instead of trying to find audio book copies. Of course you will need the voice commands to run the system to get the "box" to find the book, play, pause, stop, go back, etc.. That is what the speech recognition really us needed. On 12/02/2014 11:55 PM, Walther Koehler wrote: High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? Have a good day Walther Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric: On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service representative"). It is not and never will be a system for general-purpose speech recognition. The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding speech recognition to Linux Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes audio cleanly under most conditions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
Hi :) We have the same thread going on the Accessibility Mailing List now too. It might be worth looking at it through the Nabble or GMane interfaces. Over there Eric suggested NaturallySpeaking 13 but had several good detailed points about issues relating to the whole area of speech and voice recognition. Well worth a read if this area interests you but it's about as long as one of my longer mails. Interesting though! :) Wrt Bible, Koran or Torah study programs Linux does have quite a large range of different packages to help. For the Bible there are different programs to cover different versions (such as the King James(?) vs whatever and whatever else). Of course each person needs something slightly different so i can well imagine Andrew's typical hefty research into a topic of interest didn't find anything to suit him but something there might suit you, if you are interested. Regards from Tom :) On 3 December 2014 at 04:55, Walther Koehler wrote: > High Eric, > > thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition > system running for some time. > I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under > Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. > > -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer > NaturalSpeaking? > > -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? > > Have a good day > > Walther > > Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric: > > On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - > > > voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. > > > > > > Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. > > > > It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the > > top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near > > the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. > > > > Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has > > been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive > > voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service > > representative"). It is not and never will be a system for > > general-purpose speech recognition. > > > > The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a > > not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech > > recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited > > number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently > > experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running > > NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of > > NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio > > stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding > > speech recognition to Linux > > > > Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting > > keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes > > audio cleanly under most conditions. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LO and Mac
Hi :) This question has gone to the Accessibility Mailing List but i wondered if anyone here has tried "VoiceOver"? Amazing how 2 similar questions arise quite close together after years of barely being mentioned! Regards from Tom :) On 2 December 2014 at 23:52, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > Does someone is LibreOffice is accessible with VoiceOver as 4.3.4? > > Regards, > > -- > > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL > > accelibreinfo, votre partenaire en informatique adaptée aux déficients > visuels > > Mail: te...@accelibreinfo.eu > > Site Web: http://www.accelibreinfo.eu > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux
High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox. -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? Have a good day Walther Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric: > On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - > > voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. > > > > Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. > > It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the > top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near > the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. > > Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has > been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive > voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service > representative"). It is not and never will be a system for > general-purpose speech recognition. > > The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a > not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech > recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited > number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently > experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running > NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of > NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio > stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding > speech recognition to Linux > > Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting > keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes > audio cleanly under most conditions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
