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ColorSync Utility is a tool that lets you change a device’s colour profile. When you install devices, such as cameras, displays or printers, a colour profile containing the colour capabilities and limits for each device is created.

Speech Note lets you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It combines the power of Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation. Text and voice processing takes place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Enhanced privacy is always a big advantage with self-hosted software.

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. It's got one of the lightest memory footprints of any audio player. It's written in Rust and published under an open source license.

Character Animator is software that combines real-time live motion-capture with a multi-track recording system to control layered 2D puppets based on an illustration drawn in Photoshop or Illustrator.

I’ve reviewed a smorgasbord array of music players for Linux. So many, in fact, that I’ve honestly lost count of the number. Yet visitors to LinuxLinks are keen to share their finds with me. Gomu was shared to me by a hardcore Go aficionado.

Piper is billed as a fast, local neural text to speech system. It’s free and open source software written in C++ and Python. We’ll take you through the installation before evaluating the system.

RustPlayer is an audio player that plays locally hosted files. It’s also a radio player. It sports a terminal user interface and, as you’ll have guessed from its name, it’s written in Rust.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. 44 in total making our biggest update ever!

ImaginAIry is Python-based software for generating Stable Diffusion images. It’s primarily designed for the command-line but there’s a web frontend in development.

Noise suppression is a pretty old topic in speech processing, dating back to at least the 1970s. As the name implies, the idea is to take a noisy signal and remove as much noise as possible while causing minimum distortion to the speech of interest.

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them.

grump is a billed as a very minimal CLI audio player. grump is an acronym for “Great but Really Ugly Media Player.

GodMode is billed as a dedicated chat browser giving instant access to the full webapps of ChatGPT, Bard, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing, Quora Poe and other AI services all accessible with a single keyboard shortcut. In essence the software simply lets you simultaneously chat with a range of AI services.

Cue is a command line music player written in the C programming language. It’s free and open source software.

GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux. It’s free and open source software.

Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service with backup functionality. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich. The software makes your media accessible for all your devices including mobile devices.

Google Fonts is a computer font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory for browsing the library. The library of 1561 open source font families also offers APIs for use via CSS and Android.

Help Viewer is a WebKit based HTML viewer for macOS aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. Help Viewer is proprietary software and not available for Linux

Let me whisk you back to the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference when the late Steve Jobs tackled a difficult and rudely phrased question about Java from an audience member. His response was profound and really drives at the heart of my angst.

Amethyst is billed as a powerful node-based audio player. The aim of the project is quite interesting: to develop a music player in TypeScript to see how far the language can be stretched to prove it’s possible to provide pro-level features. This is mature software.