From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.csir.co.za (mx-4.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D271610B19 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:35:06 -0400 (EDT) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1220974501.45658@0Nil4osV8msnP+mb29t7NA Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m82FYw11015270 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:34:59 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m82FWF8p022625 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:32:15 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id m82FWEJD022608 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:32:15 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:32:14 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: speakup mailing list Subject: announcing the Kies menu system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0rc1 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:34:59 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: m82FYw11015270 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:35:07 -0000 Good day, This is to announce the release of the Kies menu system. Kies is a speech-friendly menu system for text mode under Linux. The idea is to bring the power of the console-based applications to the new blind Linux user. It was developed as part of a notetaker project and is released under the GPL version 3 license. There are a number of wrapper scripts included which people might find useful. The word Kies is the Afrikaans word that means to choose. It would be pronounced like kiss. Some of the wrapper scripts included are: kies_lookup to look up words in the dict dictionary, kies_copy_audio_cd for making a copy of an audio cd, kies_ipaddr for showing the ip address of the machine, kies_p2t a front-end to the ocropus OCR system and more. Kies is available under the goodies directory on the speakup ftp server, but since Kirk has put it there, I could not access the ftp server, so am not giving a full path here. The Readme is available as kies.README and the program as kiesfile.tar.bz2. If people are interested, but cannot get hold of the program, please drop me an email. Kind regards, Willem -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.