Wizzard Software, a provider of speech technology applications, has announced the availability of version 4.2 of AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech for Linux. The software includes a new streamlined architecture that is said to make it easier for application and web developers to deploy high-performance speech systems.

Yesterday I filed a pro bono amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Federal Trade Commission’s petition for writ of certiorari in its suit against Rambus Technologies. I’m pleased to report that 19 standard setting organizations (SSOs), representing over 13,300 members, joined as amici curiae supporting this brief; the list of participants appears later in this blog entry.

NetCDF is a format developed at Unidata that was
inspired by the CDF format from NASA. NetCDF
stands for “Network Common Data Form” and is a
self-describing data format, commonly used in
scientific and engineering applications.

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License: BSD License (original)

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Changes:
Portability and performance enhancements. Assorted bugfixes.

kbtrap is a program that monitors a keyboard for
events and executes commands when selected keys
are pressed/released. It is implemented as a
server/client connected by pipes for flexibility.
Possible uses for this include using a
keyboard/numpad to control applications such as
media players, media centers (using a remote that
identifies itself as a keyboard), kiosks, and
anything that needs to perform special events on
certain keyboard events.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
This release adds support for binding to key combos, fixes many bugs, and makes other changes.

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jsgal is a dynamic Web-based gallery. However,
rather than generating the gallery pages on a
server using scripts, it is implemented in
Javascript and DHTML and generates the pages in
the client’s browser. No offline generation of the
Web pages is required; only a list of images has
to be maintained, which allows easy updating and
extending of galleries. This allows you to host
dynamic galleries on servers without scripting
support, or on local filesystems (e.g. CD-ROMs).

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release adds image preview in the thumb gallery for Internet Explorer. It adds vertical scaling of the gallery so that it perfectly fits into the browser window. It adds prefetching of preview images for faster previewing. It changes the HTML document type of the gallery from HTMLTransitional to XHTML Strict.

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SysCP (System Control Panel) is an ISP server management tool for
Web-based administration of a Web server (Apache), mail server (Postfix,
Courier), FTP server (ProFTPd), database (MySQL), and nameserver (Bind).

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Double menu entries for Billing were shown. The APS menu now shows up again. PHPMyAdmin/WebMail/WebFTP links in the menu now show up again. PHP configuration is again editable. Several language mistakes in the English language file were corrected. Protected areas with lighttpd work again. The Awstats configuration page shows all configurations. A missing line break has been added to nss-mysql.cnf. A database query error by searching for a ticket on the categories page has been fixed. Resellers weren’t able to manage instances of their customers. The autoresponder cron script didn’t run because of short tags.

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Talk about tempests and teapots. Yesterday had quite the controversy as reports swirled around the Intertubes that Garmin would be releasing an Android handset. This all started when website DigiTimes posted that Garmin would launch Android handsets during the second half of 2009. Immediately, everyone started speculating whether the upcoming Nuvifone would be Android based. Apparently not. Garmin responded with a press release disputing the DigiTimes report and saying the story contained “a number inaccuracies in both sales figures and product rollout schedules.”

Hot on the heels of a mobile device browsing tip, I see that Mozilla has outed the next alpha version of their Fennic browser. Fennic is the mobile version of Firefox that’s currently targeted at the Nokia Internet Tablet line, but that’s likely just the beginning of device support considering the vast amount of mobile phones out on the market.

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OpenNaken is a chat client written on Tcl/Tk for
Naken Chat servers. It is a universal client that
will run on any OS that has Tcl/Tk installed.