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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Category: Reviews
Gespeaker – GTK frontend for eSpeak
Gespeaker is a GTK-based frontend for eSpeak. Like eSpeak, Gespeaker is free and open source software.
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Back in Time – simple backup tool
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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Graphite – 2D vector and raster editor
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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eSpeak NG – text-to-speech software
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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Index – Qt-based file manager
Index is a Qt-based file manager that works on desktops, Android and Plasma Mobile.
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Feishin – modern self-hosted music player
Feishin is billed as a modern self-hosted music player. It’s written in TypeScript and published under an open source license.
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ungoogled-chromium – Chromium without Google web services
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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Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine
ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
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Clipcat – clipboard manager written in Rust
Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.
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Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents
EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.
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hihat – minimalist offline music player
hihat is software that’s billed as a minimalistic offline music player.
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Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup
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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Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition
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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Machine Learning in Linux: TTS – deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
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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Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail
Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Tortoise TTS – text-to-speech program
Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality.
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Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust
Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.
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fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player
Here’s our updated review of fooyin. We’re looking at v0.3.7.
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explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text
explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.
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