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  10. NEWS</h1></center>
  11. <center><font size=+2><a href="http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=590">Please
  12. visit the Sourceforge News section</a>.</font></center>
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  14. <br><b>November 21st 2001</b>
  15. <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=126719">Overflow
  16. 0.6.0 have just been released.</a><b></b><b></b>
  17. <p>We're pleased to announce the release of Overflow&nbsp; 0.6.0. Overflow
  18. is a free (GPL/LGPL) "data flow oriented" development environment. It can
  19. be use to build complex applications by combining small, reusable building
  20. blocks. In some way, it has similarities with Simulink and LabView, although
  21. it is not designed (and far) to be a "clone" of any of them. Download it
  22. from sourceforge&nbsp; here.
  23. <br>It is written in C++ and features a plugin mechanism that allows plugins/toolboxes
  24. to be easiliy added. Overflow currently includes the following toolboxes:
  25. <p>- Audio/Signal processing
  26. <br>- Speech processing (part of the Open Mind Speech project)
  27. <br>- Vector quantization
  28. <br>- Neural network
  29. <br>- Fuzzy logic
  30. <br>- Real-time audio effect processing (early stage)
  31. <br>- Linear algebra using LAPACK (early stage)
  32. <br>- Image processing (early stage)<b></b>
  33. <p><b><font color="#000000">This release brings a number of important improvements:</font></b>
  34. <p>- Many, many improvements to the gnome GUI (copy/paste, tooltips, bug
  35. fix, ...)
  36. <br>- C++ code generator (generated code can now be compiled on Win32)
  37. <br>- Basic networking support
  38. <br>- Improved debugging
  39. <br>- Speed improvements (also, auto-detection of 3DNow! and SSE)
  40. <br>- Overflow "shell scripts" (#! files)
  41. <br>- Lots of fixed bugs
  42. <br>- Big code cleanup and simplification (warning, this breaks some minor
  43. things)
  44. <p>There are also good news for the project. Overflow has been adopted
  45. by InfoSpace Speech Solutions for implementing part of a speech recognition
  46. engine and should ship in a future version of the product. Note that Jean-Marc
  47. Valin (project admin) works for <a href="http://www.locusdialogue.com">InfoSpace
  48. / LocusDialog</a>.
  49. <br>Overflow is now also used in the <a href="http://www.gel.usherb.ca/laborius">LABORIUS&nbsp;mobile
  50. robotics lab at University of Sherbrooke</a> and a robot control toolbox
  51. is soon to be released!
  52. <p>There is now an <a href="http://sourceforge.net/survey/survey.php?group_id=590&survey_id=11967">on-line
  53. survey on SourceForge</a>. Tell us what you think about Overflow!
  54. <br><b></b>&nbsp;
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  57. <br><b>July 4th 2001</b>
  58. <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=96301">Overflow
  59. 0.5.0 have just been released.</a><b>&nbsp; </b>This new release brings
  60. a number of improvements over version 0.4.3.
  61. <p>These improvements include:
  62. <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Binary I/O (serialization/unserialization) of objects
  63. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Major improvements to object ASCII I/O, mostly
  64. with the Vector type
  65. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Default FFT implementation when FFTW is not available
  66. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Possibility of passing any object type as a parameter
  67. from the GUI
  68. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - gcc 2.96-RH support
  69. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Performance improvements
  70. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Fixes for <a href="http://bioinformatics.org/piper/">Piper</a>
  71. compatibility
  72. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Several new nodes
  73. <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Issues:
  74. <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - It is not clear whether Overflow compiles with
  75. gcc 3.0 installed in
  76. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the standard (/usr)
  77. path
  78. <p><b>May 21st 2001</b>
  79. <p>Overflow 0.4.3 has been released. This is a minor release which provides
  80. the functionality for speaker identification system (authentification of
  81. the speaker) . The files are available at : <a href="ftp://freespeech.sourceforge.net/pub/freespeech/speaker_verification-0.0.1.tgz">ftp://freespeech.sourceforge.net/pub/freespeech/speaker_verification-0.0.1.tgz</a>
  82. <p>You need to install the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=590">latest
  83. version (0.4.3)</a> of Overflow to use the speaker identification system.
  84. <p><b>March 21st, 2001</b>
  85. <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=590">Overflow 0.4 released</a>.
  86. <p><b>November 25th, 2000</b>
  87. <p>It's been a while since the last update. Lots of new stuff has been
  88. committed recently and we're working on stabilizing the code before a new
  89. release. Recent updates include optimizations, better portability and of
  90. course, new nodes.
  91. <p><b>March 10th, 2000</b>
  92. <p>First release of the Overflow project (<a href="announce-0.1.0.html">version
  93. 0.1</a>). Enjoy!
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  96. <div align=right>$Date: 2001-11-21 17:20:33 +0100 (Wed, 21 Nov 2001) $
  97. <br><a href="mailto:valj01@gel.usherb.ca">Jean-Marc Valin</a>
  98. <br><a href="mailto:letd01@gel.usherb.ca">Dominic L&eacute;tourneau</a></div>
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