Speak Freely to be discontinued

Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Adam Myrow]

This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol

I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
I know of.

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[erik burggraaf]

Hi,

Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.  So, if you decide
not to continue developing your distro of speak freely, users won't be
totally stuck.

Insidentally, I didn't know speak freely worked under windows.  Where would
one go about getting the windows version?  Unless the blind linux comunity
is going ventriloe, in which case I'm there, smile.

Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Myrow <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Speak Freely to be discontinued


> This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
> gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
> activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
> January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol
>
> I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
> adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
> the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
> GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
> blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
> It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
> I know of.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[David Poehlman]

http://www.speakfreely.org has the windows version available.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "erik burggraaf" <erik@erik-burggraaf.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued


Hi,

Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.  So, if you decide
not to continue developing your distro of speak freely, users won't be
totally stuck.

Insidentally, I didn't know speak freely worked under windows.  Where would
one go about getting the windows version?  Unless the blind linux comunity
is going ventriloe, in which case I'm there, smile.

Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Myrow <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Speak Freely to be discontinued


> This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
> gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
> activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
> January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol
>
> I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
> adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
> the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
> GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
> blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
> It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
> I know of.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>


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Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Adam Myrow]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, David Poehlman wrote:

> http://www.speakfreely.org has the windows version available.

That link now points to the End-of-life announcement.

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[David Poehlman]

I just downloaded the windows version from a link of of that site.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, David Poehlman wrote:

> http://www.speakfreely.org has the windows version available.

That link now points to the End-of-life announcement.


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Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Alex Snow]

so does www.fourmilab.ch. in fact it has the latest version and 
speakfreely.org still has 7.2
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:26:02PM -0400, 
David Poehlman wrote:
> http://www.speakfreely.org has the windows version available.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "erik burggraaf" <erik@erik-burggraaf.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.  So, if you decide
> not to continue developing your distro of speak freely, users won't be
> totally stuck.
> 
> Insidentally, I didn't know speak freely worked under windows.  Where would
> one go about getting the windows version?  Unless the blind linux comunity
> is going ventriloe, in which case I'm there, smile.
> 
> Erik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:38 PM
> Subject: Speak Freely to be discontinued
> 
> 
> > This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
> > gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
> > activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
> > January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
> > http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol
> >
> > I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
> > adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
> > the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
> > GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
> > blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
> > It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
> > I know of.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Adam Myrow]

The Windows version is at http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/windows.  I
didn't say I was developing Speak Freely, but some members of the Speakup
community have made a modified version that has some features specifically
for teh Speakup reflector and blends audio when two or more people talk at
once so you can understand them instead of the horrible back and forth
sound that you hear in the normal version.

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Buddy Brannan]

Really? Where do I get ventrillo for Linux?
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3    | But I will lay my burden 
Email: davros@ycardz.com   | in the cradle of your grace,
ICQ: 36621210              | And the shining beaches of your love,
http://www.ycardz.com      | and the sea of your embrace.--Dave Carter

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[David Poehlman]

http://www.ventrilo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros@ycardz.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued


Really? Where do I get ventrillo for Linux?
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3    | But I will lay my burden 
Email: davros@ycardz.com   | in the cradle of your grace,
ICQ: 36621210              | And the shining beaches of your love,
http://www.ycardz.com      | and the sea of your embrace.--Dave Carter

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Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
I see a server for linux, but no client. Am I missing something here? Can the server be used as a client?


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:28:12 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:

>http://www.ventrilo.com



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Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Vortek, Eater of Souls!]

Hello all,
As far as I know, there is no linux client.
I run the linux server, and usually stay pretty up-to-date on
developements, however I may have missed something.

Jim


Jacob Schmude wrote:

>  Hi
> I see a server for linux, but no client. Am I missing something here?
> Can the server be used as a client?
>
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:28:12 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
>
> >http://www.ventrilo.com
>

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[David Poehlman]

Right, servers for other platforms are available, clients for windows will
be joined by others.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued


Hi
I see a server for linux, but no client. Am I missing something here? Can
the server be used as a client?


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:28:12 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:

>http://www.ventrilo.com

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Alex Snow]

Is there even a ventrilo client for linux? Last time I checked there 
was only a server...I've used the winblows client a bit and really 
don't like it. it doesn't have a lot of speakfreely's features but is 
slightly more luser freindly then speakfreely.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 
07:16:04PM -0400, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.  So, if you decide
> not to continue developing your distro of speak freely, users won't be
> totally stuck.
> 
> Insidentally, I didn't know speak freely worked under windows.  Where would
> one go about getting the windows version?  Unless the blind linux comunity
> is going ventriloe, in which case I'm there, smile.
> 
> Erik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:38 PM
> Subject: Speak Freely to be discontinued
> 
> 
> > This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
> > gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
> > activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
> > January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
> > http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol
> >
> > I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
> > adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
> > the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
> > GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
> > blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
> > It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
> > I know of.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[Lorenzo Prince]

erik burggraaf staggered into view and mumbled:
> Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.

Where can I find a Ventriloe client for Linux?  My friend said he looked all over for one and couldn't find one.  It's 
pretty much they only application that is holding him back from using Linux exclusively.

Lorenzo Prince
happy Shrike user ;)
-- 
Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive,
because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows
from that! Har har har!"
(Andy Bates in comp.os.linux.misc, on "intuitive interfaces", slightly
defending Macs.)

Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued

[igueths]

ew of my friends and I were talking about reverse engineering Ventrillo so
that I could work on a Linux client. However, since the protocol is
unfortunately proprietary the Linux client would ve to be  continually
modified. Its just sad to see that there is a server that will work on most
Unix flavors, but not a client. 

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