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Thursday February 24, 2005

GOK turns 1.0, and FreeTTS turns 1.2

Following on the heels of the Solaris 10 release, are two more accessibility releases!

FreeTTS, the open source software text-to-speech engine written in the Java language, recently turned 1.2. FreeTTS ships with Solaris 10, and is one of the text-to-speech engines supported by the Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier. The FreeTTS project is led by Willie Walker, one of my companions at the Sun Accessibility Program Office.

Earlier this week, the incredible, award winning, dynamic GNOME On-screen Keyboard (aka GOK) turned version 1.0! Like FreeTTS, GOK ships with Solaris 10. As noted elsewhere, GOK provides a host of features not available in any other on-screen keyboard. To steal a line from David Bolter, Go Gok! (2005-02-24 15:40:04.0) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

Thanks for the kind words about GOK Peter! One minor note: I <em>think</em> Simon Bates was first to say "Go Gok!" a lot and it quickly became a quiet team cheer. I started using it in GOK emails quite early but Simon is really to blame.

Posted by David Bolter on March 09, 2005 at 08:31 AM PST #

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