Free voice over software for linux

Mr. Voice is a specific-purpose Perl/Tk front-end for an MP3 database.
It was written to provide an easy-to-use MP3 solution for the production booth of an improv comedy troupe, and as such is tailored to providing quick searches and playback of MP3s that are split up into categories.
While not intended to be a standalone desktop MP3 player, others in a similar situation may find it useful.
What is Mr. Voice? A way to have a ton of audio at your disposal, and to be able to call up just the clip you need, just when you need it. If youre running any sort of production that needs audio, such as improv shows, theatre, church events, that sort of thing, Mr. Voice can help. It handles a wide variety of audio formats (MP3, OGG, WAV, AAC, WMA), can do queueing and playlisting, and has a powerful SQL database backend (without needing the overhead of a big database engine like MySQL).
Plus, its 100% free and open-source.
What isnt Mr. Voice? A general-purpose MP3 player. In fact, it doesnt play audio at all by itself - it farms that off to an audio player like XMMS or WinAmp. Its also probably not a wonderful iTunes replacement. Sure, you can categorize and search audio files, but its not designed to become a jukebox.
Enhancements:
- A new option under the Online Preferences to edit the XML-RPC (Mr. Voice Online) URL that is used (in case I need to change it again). It was hardcoded into the program before.
- Fixed bugs that were causing strange quote marks to appear in song and category names.
- Display the song filename in the "Edit Song" menu. Suggested by Bill in Portland.
- Display the time of a song next to the hotkey listing. Suggested by Ted in Chapel Hill.
- Added an option under the File menu to export the song list from your Mr. Voice database as either a text file or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Suggested by Ted in Chapel Hill.

JVoiceXML is an implementation of VoiceXML 2.1, the Voice Extensible Markup Language. JVoiceXMLs specification can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-voicexml21-20050613/ as an extension to VoiceXML 2.0, specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/.

VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed initiative conversations.

Perlbox.org provides voice solutions for Linux and Unix desktop control. There is great need for quality accessibility for the Linux desktop.

The need will only grow as Linux and open source Unix continue to grow more popular on home, educational, corporate and government desktops and servers. Contact us for more information.

Linux should be accessible. We have worked with the open source community for three years to grow several free software products centered around voice and speech recognition, accessible interfaces, and voice control for Linux.

Shell over ICMP consists of two free and open source applications: one server and one client. Shell over ICMP project allows a user to connect to a remote shell daemon, by using ICMP protocol instead of classical TCP.
Entirely written in Python, soicmp is a working proof-of-concept to demonstrate that data can be transmitted across a network by hiding it in traffic that normally does not contain payloads.
How does it work?
The soicmp server is a daemon that must be started on the remote server. When the server receives a request from the client it looks into the packets payload. The payload must respect certain protocol rules. In detail the client must specify:
command
communication mode (echo|echo/reply)
authentication (y|n)
This is an example of a correct payload string sent by client to server:
$CMD ls -a $MODE echo/reply $PWD root2005 $END
If the payload matches with the server protocol specification then it will pipe the command to "/bin/sh" or "cmd.exe" and execute it. The server then reads the result from the pipe and sends it back to the client that will print it to stdout.
Moreover every client will send ICMP packets having id equal to the clients current process ID and will accept only ICMP replies having the same id value. This prevents output to be printed by other client instances running on the same workstation (this argument is also treated in the FAQs section).
Main features:
- Platform independent.
- Possibility to run soicmp daemon on multiple ethernet interfaces simultaneously handling multiple client connections.
- Possibility to specify the buffer size of outgoing packets.
- Client side source IP address spoofing.
- Remote client case-sensitive (plain texted) authentication.
- Possibility to select two communication types:
- One based on encapsulating command output in unique "one way" ICMP_ECHOREPLY (type 0) packets sent by server to client (see fig. 1).
- Another one that guarantees the correct packets delivering by using the request/response nature of ECHO and ECHOREPLY ICMP packet types (see fig.2)
- No listening sockets are listed by netstat or similar programs.

Much more than an answering machine, VOCP transforms your computer into a full-featured call answering and voice messaging system. With the VOCP System, you can create an unlimited number of voicemail, pager and command shell boxes which callers will navigate using their touch tone telephone.
You can send and receive faxes, listen to your email using text-to-speech, filter and redirect calls based on caller ID information, run programs through the telephone and more.
VOCP acts as a call answering and voice messaging system. When a call comes in on the line connected to the voice modem, VOCP answers and the caller is placed in the root box. From there, the caller may navigate the system tree by using the DTMF keys on the telephone.
Most boxes will play messages that present menus which lead to other boxes, which the caller selects by entering a single digit on the telephone keypad. Callers may jump to any box withing the system by entering *, followed by the box number and, optionally, followed by the # key.
The leaf nodes, or terminal points, in the system end the call - this is where the caller will leave a voice or pager message, send or receive a fax.
A user may also choose to log into the system, in order to retreive voicemail messages or to run programs using the command shells. This is accomplished by accessing the special box number 999 (by entering *999#).
Callers navigate the system using a touch-tone phone and may send and receive faxes, voice mail, and pager messages, listen to text/HTML email messages, or execute configured programs on the host and hear the resulting output.
Main features:
- The core VOCP voice messaging system
- The VOCP Call Center
- The XVOCP graphical message retrieval interface
- The VOCPhax graphical faxing interface
- The VOCPweb remote web interface
- The VOCP BoxConf configuration interface
- a large number of utility programs (see the /usr/local/vocp/bin/README for details)

Head Over Heels is a spanky new remake of the classic Jon Ritman & Bernie Drummand isometric adventure.

Head Over Heels was released, um, a while ago. Around about 1987 if I recall correctly and it was immediately praised in the press as being quite the bestest thing ever. Not only was it a huge game for its time, it also had great graphics and was very addictive - if somewhat punishing in its difficulty level.

The variety in the locations was amazing and the challenges brilliantly designed. Quite rightly it was awarded with pretty much every accolade that could be bestowed upon it by the various magazines. Even today it still stands as a brilliantly designed title and has never really been bettered in the isometric adventure genre.

This version is a pretty darn faithful remake of the Speccy original except with a few spanking extra bits grafted on like a save system and subliminal flashes of erotic art (if I have my way!). I should perhaps tell you a bit about the team whos making the game. Im the one responsible for the graphics (apart from the lovely logo which you see adorning this site) and Im Graham Goring.

The programming is by the very talented Tomaz Kac (who only wrote this game because of a hastily scrawled diagram posted on the Retrospec mailing list about how you cant properly sort isometric games without complex masking), the excellent music is by Dorian Black (who I understand has a picture of an old man in his loft - ha ha ha!) and this website and the games logo is by Pierre Jovanovic.

Other contributors are James Curry, Kakarot, Milos Babovic, Metka Jostl and Sir Dave-O whose beta testing has been invaluable in both ironing out the programming bugs and also refining the layout of some of the rooms due to the handling being ever so slightly different to the Spectrum version.

On a personal note Ive also been encouraged by all the lovely people at the pixelation forum (pixelation.swoo.net) and of course the other members of Retrospec who have now grudgingly accepted that I can actually draw fairly good graphics.

Gaim Video and Voice Support is a friendly fork of the gaim project to concentrate on video and voice support, which will eventually be backported.