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Dasher
Stable Release (4.11)
Microsoft Windows
version 4.11 (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7)
version 4.6.2 (Windows 2000)
32 bit Windows XP version is confirmed to work under 64 bit Windows 7.
Please manually uninstall any versions prior to 4.4.2 before installing version 4.6.0.
For speech production , the Microsoft Speech API is required. This is included in Windows XP or may be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/
Mac OS X
version 4.11
expat 2.0.1 necessary for MacOS X less than 10.5
Source Code
version 4.11 (.tar.bz2)
version 4.11 (.tar.gz)
Android beta (.tgz)
Speech Dasher
Speech Dasher is a post-processor for your computer's speech-recognition system (eg Microsoft or Dragon) (More information )
Development Release
Microsoft Windows
Speech Dasher prototype (XP)
Dasher For Mobile Devices
Early/beta release based on 4.11+
version 1.0 (android)
Old Release (2.0.3)
version 2.0.3
Additional Files
Training texts (for use with version 3 or 4)
European languages training texts
Albanian training text (by Alban Rrustemi) (317K)
Armenian training text (by kostas savvidis) (K)
Czech COMBINING training text (456K)
Czech training text (456K)
Danish training text (provided by Ole Winther) (600K)
Dutch training text (provided by Peter Baert) (1.1M)
English training text (already included in main Dasher distribution) (300K)
English training text Lower Case (300K)
Esperanto training text (provided by Edmund Grimley Evans) (500K)
Finnish training text (by Leena Krohn) (460K)
French training text (by Gilles Brodeur and Peter Baert) (640K)
French COMBINING training text (by Gilles Brodeur and Peter Baert) (640K)
German training text (by Michael Muhlhaus) (919K)
Greek training text (by Pantelis Nasikas) (496K)
Hungarian training text ((c) Hungarian Electronic Library, for use in non-profit applications only) (500K)
Italian training text (provided by Matteo Fasanella) (322K)
Lithuanian training text (provided by aleksandras steponavicius) (301K)
Polish training text (by Blazej L. Popielski) (1M)
Portuguese (Brazilian) COMBINING training text (by Martin Whittle and CETENFolha) (656K)
Portuguese (Brazilian) training text (by Martin Whittle and CETENFolha) (656K)
Russian training text (by Alex Ziranov) (589K)
Russian Latin training text (by Nikon Rasumov) (300K)
Spanish training text (by Andrea Prado) (1.6M)
Spanish COMBINING training text (by Andrea Prado) (1.6M)
Swedish training text (thanks, Johan Bouvin) (413K)
Turkish training text (thanks, Bulent Celasun) (200K)
Asian languages training texts
Japanese Hiragana(60) training text (130K)
Japanese Hiragana(83) training text (130K)
Thai training text (thanks, Ratthachat Chatpatanasiri and Jung Dalglish) (1M)
Mongolian training text (271K)
Indian languages training texts - generously provided by the Emille project
Assamese (688K)
Bengali (816K)
Gujarati (631K)
Hindi (800K)
Kannada (894K)
Kashmiri (491K)
Malayalam (956K)
Marathi (1M)
Oriya (581K)
Punjabi (gurmukhi) (746K)
Punjabi (indopersoarabic) (822K)
Sinhala (649K)
Tamil (581K)
Telugu (800K)
Urdu (653K)
African languages training texts (South African languages kindly provided by De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. 2002)
Swahili training text (provided by Arvi Hurskainen) (300K)
Afrikaans training text (1M)
Malagasy training text (82K)
Ndebele training text (1M)
Sepedi training text (1M)
Sesotho training text (1M)
Swati training text (918K)
Tsonga training text (1.2M)
Tswana training text (1M)
Venda training text (548K)
Xhosa training text (933K)
Zulu training text (855K)
Middle-eastern languages
Arabic training text (3M) provided by Yasser H. Abdel-Haleem
Hebrew training text (183K)
Persian training text (1M) provided by Behdad
Scripts for converting files
Perl program converts Japanese Shift-JIS to UTF8
Perl program ensures Hiragana(UTF8) files are correct for Hiragana(60) alphabet
Perl program ensures Hiragana(UTF8) files are correct for Hiragana(83) alphabet
Other files
Abc (Music) training text (2M)
