News
December 14, 2005: Podcast
I've started a Podcast about Assistive
Technology.
If you want to stay informed about news on (Open Source) Assistive
Technology, subscribe to the podcast by entering the following url in
iTunes, Juice or any other Podcast Receiver:
http://podcast.openassistive.org/rss.xml
April 20, 2005: What AAC device/software do you use?
I've posted a question on the
Living With Cerebal Palsy forum (a poll) to find out what AAC devices or
software people are using these days. Please visit the forum and enter the
poll
March 14, 2005: Buy pVoice gear
Show that you support pVoice by buying pVoice gear at http://www.cafepress.com/pvoice.
You can buy shirts, bags and other merchandise at the shop.
November 4, 2004: pVoice 2.2 beta 5
Unfortunately the previous beta version contained some bugs. The promised
plugin support in beta 4 didn't work as it should, and there were some
issues with speech synthesis.
These issues have now been solved, and I also uploaded the first two
plugins. These plugins are the SaveText actionbar plugin and the
RetrieveText theme plugin. After installation, the SaveText plugin will be
visible in the Actionbar (the bar at the bottom where the 'Speak',
'Backspace' and other icons are located), the RetrieveText plugin is a theme
plugin, and can be added to your page from the Edit window, by selecting
this plugin as the 'theme type'.
Finally the supported image fileformats have been expanded, so you can now
use the following file formats:
Windows Bitmap (BMP), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), JPEG (JPG),
Compuserve Graphical Interchange Format (GIF), Windows Metafile (WMF) ,
Zsoft Paintbrush (PCX), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG), Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Windows Icon (ICO),
Kodak Photo CD (PCD), TrueVision Targa (TGA) and WordPerfect Graphics (WPG).
October 30, 2004: pVoice 2.2 beta 4
I just uploaded the fourth beta of pVoice 2.2. This version includes support
for plugins. From now on I will be releasing extra features as plugins, so
check back regularly to find out if there are new plugins available.
You can now also use Microsoft Speech API 5 compatible voices with pVoice
(of course you have to have the SAPI5 installed for this. Windows XP and
2000 have this already).
Furthermore, pVoice is now able to handle more imagefile formats. In this
release I've only added WMF support, but more fileformats will be available
in the eventual 2.2 release.