eGuideDog

(updated on May 7, 2012)

eGuideDog project develops different kinds of free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on Ekho TTS and Accessibility on Android.

Nov 2011: Thanks to Liao Weicheng, Ekho supports Zhaoan Hakka since version 4.8.
Nov 2011: Helped to edit JyutDict Cantonese dictionaries: JyutEnDict (Cantonese-English), JyutDeDict (Cantonese-German), JyutFrDict (Cantonese-French).
Jun 2011: Updated Cantonese dictionary
Mar 2011: Mirrored Vinux at http://dir.eguidedog.net/vinux
Feb 2011: eGuideDog project won the award of SourceForge Project of the Month: February 2011

Dec 2010: Ekho supported Android since version 4.0.
Aug 2010: 粤语歇后语大全 was released. Just for fun :-)
Jul 2010: A web-based self-voiced classic Chinese game - 华容道 was released.
Jul 2010: A web-based self-voiced Chinese game - 记忆翻牌游戏 was released.
Jun 2010: WebSpeech javascript library was released, which is for web developers who want to write pages with voice.
Feb 2010: A WebAnywhere server, which supports Cantonese, Mandarin, English and German, was setup in China for public use. http://wa.eguidedog.net

Dec 2009: eGuideDog project began to accept donation with SourceForge's donation system through Paypal.
Nov 2009: Ekho 2.0 released, which supports SAPI5 on Windows.
Oct 2009: eGuideDog team finished the draft coding for multi-language framework of WebAnywhere.
Aug 2009: eguidedog.net was registered as the official domain of eGuideDog project.
Mar 2009: Ekho 0.91 was released, which was the first stable version of Ekho.
Mar 2009: A new Cantonese voice with 7 tones recorded by Cameron Wong was released.
Feb 2009: zhspeak, which is a mini version of Ekho in Python, was released with the help of Dr. Colin Kong.
Jan 2009: Michael Tang joined in eGuideDog team who made great contribution to the Cantonese dictionary and Ekho voice improvement.
Jan 2009: eSpeak-Chinese was stopped updating because we have no time to maintained.

Oct 2008: With Silas S. Brown and Hae-Sung Jeon's help, a Korean voice was supported in Ekho 0.75 for trial.
Sep 2008: eGuideDog Browser is deprecated because its prospect and our limited time.
Jul 2008: With Silas S. Brown and Yali Cheng's help, a Mandarin voice was released. Ekho supports Cantonese, Mandarin and English (through Festival) since then.
Mar 2008: eGuideDog TTS - egdspeak was released, which was renamed to Ekho later.

Dec 2007: eSpeak-Chinese was reported by Hong Kong Blind Union. (無障礙數碼科技通訊第二十一期)
Nov 2007: With Kyle Wang and Silas S. Brown's help, eSpeak-Chinese was released. It is a Chinese version of eSpeak with Chinese installer and build-in Cantonese/Mandarin dictionaries. eSpeak-Cantonese was merged into it since then.
Nov 2007: The project was reported by Hong Kong Blind Union. (無障礙數碼科技通訊第十九期 )
Sep 2007: eSpeak-Cantonese was released, which is a Cantonese version of eSpeak.
Sep 2007: After annotating phonetic symbols for about 40,000 words, a draft Cantonese phonetic dictionary was done.
Jan 2007: eGuideDog Browser became a functional voice browser for the blind.

Dec 13, 2006: eGuideDog project was founded by Cameron Wong. eGuideDog Browser written in Perl was the first software in the project.