Software: libei 1.0.0, JDBC FDW 0.3.1, Coqui TTS, Notes

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2023,
updated Jun 10, 2023

• libei 1.0.0

  libei 1.0.0 is now available.
  
  
  libei is a library to send Emulated Input (EI) to a matching Emulated Input
  Server (EIS) which can receive those events with libeis, also part of this
  project.
  
  
  libei uses GitLab releases, for tarballs please see:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/releases/1.0.0
  
  
  # Changes:
  
  
  Note that there is one minor protocol change (`ei_connection.sync`) and
  one ABI (not API) change in libeis since the RC2 despite previous
  statements that the protocol and API are stable. In both cases it was
  better to do it now while every user of libei(s) is still in draft than
  having to special-case those instances for the next 10 years.
  An rebuild will take care of of the ABI change, making sure libei
  

• JDBC FDW 0.3.1 release

  We have just released version 0.3.1 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for databases with JDBC interface.

  This release can work with PostgreSQL 13, 14 and 15.

  This FDW is implemented in C language with JDK.

  This release improves the following features [...]

• Sam Thursfield: Screen reading, part 2: looking at Coqui TTS

  I did some research into open source text to speech solutions recently. As part of that I spent a while trying out Coqui TTS and, while I was trying to get it to sound nice, I learned a few things about voice synthesis.

  Coqui TTS provides some speech models which are pre-trained on specific datasets. For text-to-speech, each dataset contains text snippets paired with audio recordings of humans reading the text.

• Notes Is a Great Lightweight Note-taking App for Windows, Linux, and macOS

  Notes app is a free and open-source note-taking app for those who want to effortlessly and confidently jot down their thoughts and ideas. Built-in C++ with Qt, this app is both lightning-fast and stunningly attractive, allowing users to record their ideas seamlessly without any lag.