Quick Start

Install Acwato Software

Windows

Double click on the InstallAcwato.exe file that can be downloaded here and click on Yes button when the following dialog box appears.

Then click on Next button in this dialog.

Eventually click on Install button in this last dialog.

After first launch of the application, folders C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Acwato that contains preferences and C:\Users\userName\Documents\Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...) are created.

macOS

Double click on the InstallAcwato.dmg file that can be downloaded here and follow the instructions.

Close the dialog box and eject the InstallAcwato drive from Finder.

After first launch of the application, folders ${HOME}/Library/Acwato that contains preferences and ${HOME}/Documents/Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...) are created.

⚠ On macOS, running python scripts from the application requires prior installation of python 3.10 that can be downloaded here.

Linux

Download InstallAcwato.bin here and execute it from any folder but the user home directory. In the example below, it is in ${HOME}/install.

After installtion, the .profile file of the user is updated adding the bin subdirectory of the distribution to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. This is usefull only for loading the acwato.so Python module from an external Python IDE (eg. Idle) and requires to logout and login again for beeing effective.

A file acwato.desktop is created in ${HOME}/.local/share/applications that creates an application icon allowing the user to lauch the software by clicking on that icon.

After the first launch of the application, folders ${HOME}/.acwato that contains preferences and ${HOME}/Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...) are created.

First Launch

Launch the application

Once installed launch Acwato by double clicking on the icon on your Desktop (Windows), in Launchpad (macOS) or in Show Applications (Linux).

End User License Agreement

Then, if you agree with the End User License Agreement, displayed on the EULA dialog box shown below, click on the I Agree button.

Setup

Then, select the default option you want to use. See below how to change it later.

After you have clicked on the Next button, the application opens. You can change your options by clicking on the Settings button.

The Acoustic / Speech option is set or unset with the correponding check box at the bottom right of the Settings dialog box.

Uninstall

Windows

Click on Start at the bottom left on your screen and then on Settings.
Click on Apps that opens Apps & features panel.
Click on Acwato and then on Uninstall.

Users folders C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Acwato that contains preferences and C:\Users\userName\Documents\Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...) have to be deleted manually.

macOS

Open Finder and click on Applications.
Right click on Acwato and then on Move to bin.

Remove user folders ${HOME}/Library/Acwato that contains preferences and ${HOME}/Documents/Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...).

Linux

Remove the installation directory (${HOME}/install/Acwato in our example).

Remove user folders ${HOME}/.acwato that contains preferences and ${HOME}/Acwato that contains the user files (pictures, audio...).