Voxin: News http://voxin.oralux.net Voxin provides yet another text-to-speech to blind users of GNU/Linux. en End of Life of IBM TTS For your information, it will no more be possible to buy new runtimes of the IBM TTS for Linux after June 2012. Consequently, we will register important orders of Voxin before the 31th May. After this date, the Voxin web site will propose the few remaining runtimes up to a single runtime per language. 15 Apr 2012 19:17 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20120415 Version 0.41 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Ubuntu 12.04, 32 or 64 bits, using speech-dispatcher (MultiArch). 1 Apr 2012 21:30 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20120401 Version 0.40 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Ubuntu 11.10, 32 or 64 bits, using speech-dispatcher (no test using Orca though).
Compatibility with Debian Squeeze (stable), 32 or 64 bits :
- tested using gnome-speech and Orca,
- on 32 bits PC, the user must authorize the Debian contrib repository.
]]> 29 Jan 2012 23:53 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20120129 Version 0.39 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatible linuxacessivel 2.0 (32 bits). 30 Dec 2011 23:29 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20111230 Version 0.38 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm - Compatible Fedora 15 (test using orca 3.0.1).

- Fix the automatic builder of speech-dispatcher Debian packages.

]]> 05 Sep 2011 15:38 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110905 Version 0.37 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm - Compatibility Vinux 3.2 (tested on 3.2.21 x86/amd64).

- Fix identification of Debian version : thank you to Sebastien Hinderer.

]]> 10 Jul 2011 19:22 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110710-fr Version 0.36 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm - Build your own speech dispatcher packages: if your Debian distro is not yet compatible with the ibmtts speech-dispatcher packages included in the voxin archive, then an automatic packages builder proposes to built the i386 and amd64 packages (tested on Debian wheezy/sid).

- Voxin-installer accepts now a non-interactive/silent installation using these switches: -l (or --lang) for language installation, -s (or --sd) for speech dispatcher driver installation, -u (or --uninstall) for uninstalling the TTS.

- Remove the support of Debian Lenny and older.

]]> 18 May 2011 17:41 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110518 Version 0.35 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with ArchLinux and Ubuntu Natty. 28 Apr 2011 00:37 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110428 Version 0.34 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Vinux 3.01 17 Apr 2011 16:19 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110417 Voxin runtimes yet available http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Oralux.org has now 400 more runtimes. High volume orders should be honored up to mid-June 2012. 15 Apr 2011 23:59 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110415 Version 0.33 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Fix stability issues (tested on Vinux 64 bits):
- Backport of the current speech dispatcher ibmtts module
- Fix crashes related to the punctuation filter

Notice: For installing the speech dispatcher update, answer 'yes' to "Do you want to use the TTS with: Orca via Speech-Dispatcher"

]]> 6 Feb 2011 16:53 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110206 Purchases are postponed http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Sorry, the purchase process is currently postponed due to a possible unavailability of IBM TTS. The update of the free LGPL drivers are still available. 24 Jan 2011 23:13 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20110124 Version 0.32 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Vinux 3.1 (tested on 32 and 64 bits) 19 Dec 2010 18:28 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20101219 Emacspeak 33.0 installer http://soft.oralux.net/emacspeak/emacspeak_voxin_install_33.0/emacspeak_voxin_install.33_0.tgz Installer for emacspeak 33.0 + voxin, compatible with a 32 or 64 bits Debian Squeeze (should be compatible with Ubuntu Lucid/Maverick). 5 Dec 2010 13:30 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20101205 Version 0.31 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Vinux 3.0 (tested on 32 bits) 31 Oct 2010 18:22 +0100 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20101031 Version 0.30 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Ubuntu Maverick (32 or 64 bits) 25 Oct 2010 21:29 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20101025 Version 0.29 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Debian Squeeze (testing) (32 or 64 bits) :
- Speechd.conf is automatically updated (local and global configuration files).
- The installer is translated in German: Thank you to Ali Savas.
]]> 31 Aug 2010 21:02 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100831 Emacspeak 32.0 installer http://soft.oralux.net/emacspeak/Lucid/emacspeak_voxin_install.32_0.tgz Installer for emacspeak 32.0 + voxin, compatible with a 32 or 64 bits Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). 21 May 2010 19:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100521 Emacspeak 29.0 installer http://soft.oralux.net/emacspeak/Lucid/emacspeak_voxin_install.29_0.3.tgz Installer for emacspeak 29.0 + voxin, compatible with a 32 or 64 bits Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). 17 May 2010 17:20 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100517 Version 0.28 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Ubuntu Lucid Beta 1. 23 Mar 2010 23:50 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100323 For info: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility http://blog.grain-of-salt.com/index.php?itemid=394 External link, by Joanmarie Diggs, Assistive Technology Specialist and Gnome Orca contributor. 7 Feb 2010 23:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100207 Version 0.27 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Fix a major issue introduced in 0.26, which prevented the installation of some languages. 18 Jan 2010 17:51 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20100118 Version 0.26 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm New features for Ubuntu Karmic or Debian Lenny (32 or 64 bits) :
- New punctuation filter (for spelling all characters, some or none).
- Enabling punctuation and SSML in the ibmtts module (Speech-dispatcher).
- This module returns now the list of installed voices (helpful under Orca for example).
- Speech-dispatcher package compatible with libao.
]]> 24 Dec 2009 17:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20091224 Version 0.25 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility with Ubuntu Karmic (32 and 64 bits). 26 Oct 2009 17:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20091026 Version 0.24 http://voxin.oralux.net/update/index.htm Compatibility Debian Lenny amd64. 19 Oct 2009 17:00 +0200 http://voxin.oralux.net/rss20091019