XZIST.org Blog » software http://xzist.org/blog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vocaroo Express – Send Voice Messages in Windows Mail http://xzist.org/blog/2009/09/vocaroo-express-send-voice-messages-in-windows-mail/ http://xzist.org/blog/2009/09/vocaroo-express-send-voice-messages-in-windows-mail/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:19:44 +0000 Daniel http://xzist.org/blog/?p=185 This is a small app for sending voice messages using your default email client (i.e. Outlook Express, Windows Mail, etc…). I guess it’s still in beta… but please give it a try!

Vocaroo Express Screenshot

Click here for more info

Features:

  • Simple to use. Click to record, click to stop, and click to send!
  • Send voice messages as an attachment using your Windows email client.
  • Use the email software and address book you are are comfortable with.
  • All recordings are saved on disk for backup and later listening.
  • Help messages guide you each step of the way (all three of them!).
  • A rather fetching green and purple colour scheme.

It should work with any MAPI compatible email client and all versions of Windows. Some obvious “features” such as SMTP server support have been left out for the sake of simplicity (this app needs to be something your mother can use!). However you can always set your own SMTP server as an account in Outlook Express so that functionality is not really needed.

It does of course require you have a microphone.

Download now!

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It is an app. I made for my final year project at university. The little vehicles evolve to pick up the “food”.

screenshot of neural network evolution application

Download (both Linux and Windows binaries in each package):
http://xzist.org/temp/NN_Evolution.zip
http://xzist.org/temp/NN_Evolution.tar.gz

Edit: C++ Source code released:
http://xzist.org/temp/NN_Evolution_source.zip

I think the tar.gz version is a slightly older one, with more of a tendency for the vehicles to evolve to drive backwards.

There’s no great purpose to it, except as a demonstration. It uses a genetic algorithm to evolve the weights in a neural network. After 20 generations or so they should learn to pick up the food which they detect with their sensors (leave it in “fast forward” mode for a few minutes…) Tweaking the parameters can affect how they evolve.

Source code will be released after it is assessed…

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