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Author: Steve Emms

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Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English

March 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.

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Files

Sigma File Manager – modern file manager

March 8, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Sigma File Manager is billed as a quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app.

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Speech

RHVoice – multilingual speech synthesizer

March 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

RHVoice is a multilingual speech synthesizer. The aim is to give visually impaired people access to a synthesis voice with a screen reader.

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Speech

Gespeaker – GTK frontend for eSpeak

March 4, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Gespeaker is a GTK-based frontend for eSpeak. Like eSpeak, Gespeaker is free and open source software.

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Backup software

Back in Time – simple backup tool

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Back In Time is a simple backup tool taking inspiration from FlyBack and TimeVault, both in turn inspired by Apple’s Time Machine.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2024 Updates

March 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

February 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Vector graphics

Graphite – 2D vector and raster editor

February 29, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

Graphite is a vector and raster graphics program that’s powered by a node graph compositing engine. It brings together layers with nodes.

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Speech

eSpeak NG – text-to-speech software

February 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

eSpeak NG (Next Generation) is a continuation of the eSpeak with more feedback from native speakers. It supports more than 100 languages and accents.

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Files

Index – Qt-based file manager

February 27, 2024 Steve Emms Android, Productivity, Reviews

Index is a Qt-based file manager that works on desktops, Android and Plasma Mobile.

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Web Browsers

ungoogled-chromium – Chromium without Google web services

February 23, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

ungoogled-chromium is a web browser with privacy in mind. It’s a variant of Chromium that aims to retain the experience of Chrome without the Google-specific web services.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine

February 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

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Clipboard

Clipcat – clipboard manager written in Rust

February 21, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.

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Recording Studio

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screencasting Software

February 21, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration. We recommend the best free and open source screencasting tools.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents

February 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.

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Backup software

Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is a front-end to Borg, powerful and fast de-duplicating backup software.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Bluetooth File Exchange

February 16, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility to view the Public folder on the device, retrieve and send files from/to the device.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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Finance

Best Free and Open Source Software – Finance

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms Financial, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering finance software, bitcoin clients, econometrics, and other financial applications.

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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: TTS – deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech

February 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Coqui TTS (TTS) is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It offers pretrained models in more than 1,100 different languages.

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Messaging

Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail

February 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.

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