1.1.1. Microsoft Windows

The following components are required to run Mr. Voice under Windows 95 or higher.

• An MP3 player. WinAmp version 5 is recommended. If you plan on playing Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, you will need at least WinAmp Version 5, Full install (not "Lite")

• The httpQ plugin for WinAmp. Optional, but recommended, since it allows you to fade-stop songs.

• The Ogg Vorbis plugin for WinAmp. Optional, but required if you want to play .ogg files.

• The AAC plugin for WinAmp. Optional, but required if you want to use AAC/MP4 files

If, for some reason, you do not want to run the prebuilt mrvoice.exe file, and want to install all of the Perl modules that Mr. Voice requires by hand, follow the Unix/Linux instructions below and either build the modules by hand, or install the appropriate ActiveState PPM packages. But I doubt many Windows users will want to do that.

1.1.2. Unix/Linux/BSD

The following components are required to run Mr. Voice under Unix systems.

• Perl version 5.8 (Should be provided with most modern Unix systems), plus the following perl modules (most available from CPAN):

  • Audio::Wav

  • Date::Manip

  • DBD driver for your database (DBD::SQLite 1.0 and higher supported)

  • DBI

  • MPEG::MP3-Info

  • MP4::Info

  • Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl

  • Time::HiRes

  • Tk version 804.x (Version 800.x is unsupported as of Mr. Voice version 1.10)

  • Tk::ProgressBar::Mac

• An MP3 player. xmms is recommended.

• AAC plugin for XMMS. Optional, but needed if you want to use AAC/MP4/M4A files.