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Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software.

This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. This type of software suppress a wide range of noise origins including computer fans, office, crowd, airplane, car, train, and construction. We only explore free and open source software here.

There are a few alternatives to the ps command we’ve explored previously including procs and pstree. pscircle is different to these tools. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

USBImager is a small utility designed to offer users an extremely simple graphical tool to write compressed disk images to USB drives. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows, although we only tested the software under Linux.

Apple Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) is a visual scripting application which allows users to create macros for executing specific tasks on their device(s).

Bulky is GUI software that lets you rename files and directories. While it’s developed by Linux Mint it’s not tied to any Linux distribution or desktop. It’s free and open source software.

Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a free and open source monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization. s-tui uses the psutil library to probe hardware information and the urwid interface library for its graphical engine.

girouette is software which displays the current weather in the terminal. It sources its data from OpenWeather, supports advanced fonts such as Nerd Fonts, and offers full colour support.

Stonks is a terminal based stock visualizer and tracker that displays realtime stocks in graph format. It uses Yahoo Finance to retrieval the financial information.

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.