Please choose a version of Dasher from the table below. You may also find the training texts below helpful.
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Dasher
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Version 5.0
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The update of Dasher to version 5 was developed by Ada Majorek, who sadly passed away in June 2017.
Windows and Linux
Download from github
Mac
The mac version has been updated, November 2023, to work on recent versions of macOS, thanks to sponsorship from Jorge Tendeiro and Herbosophy.
Download v5.1 here. (Older v5.0).
If you get the error 'Dasher.app can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer', locate the Dasher app in Finder, ctrl-click, and chose Open. This only needs to be done the first time you run Dasher.
Please check the README inside the zip file (or here) for further details.
Source code
The original source code repository is maintained as part of the GNOME project on gitlab.
The ACE Centre also has an MIT-licensed fork of Dasher.
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Version 4.11
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Microsoft Windows
Version 4.11
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/
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Mac OS X
4.11 This will not work on recent versions of MacOS. Please try version 5, above.
expat 2.0.1 necessary for MacOS X less than 10.5
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Source Code
version 4.11 - Windows/Linux/Mac tar.bz2 .tar.gz
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Speech Dasher
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Speech Dasher is a post-processor for your computer's speech-recognition system (eg Microsoft or Dragon) (More information)
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SpeechDasher.zip Speech Dasher prototype for Microsoft Windows (XP) |
Dasher For Mobile Devices
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version 1.0 (Android) - an early/beta release based on Dasher 4.11+. Source code: 2.0 / beta (older?)
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Dasher for iOS - updated version by the ACE Centre |
Additional Files
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Training texts
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European languages training texts |
Albanian training text (by Alban Rrustemi) (317K) |
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) |
Asian languages training texts |
Japanese Hiragana(60) training text (130K) |
Japanese Hiragana(83) training text (130K) |
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) |
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) |