AutoStroker

AutoStroker is a very basic stroke training tool. A trainer will give you a series of stroking tasks where she/he determines the number of strokes and speed in each exercise. The trainer will use metronome like wood block sounds to guide your training.

It has no UI and is designed to be used with a Text To Speech (TTS) tool that will read out the trainers instructions. When running you will see a Windows command window and although this will show the instructions as text, it is intended to be be minimised and you just listen to the beats and your trainers instructions.

The trainer will also read out a caption like taunt between each exercise.

When you are done, just close the window.

Setting Up Text To Speech

You can get a free, Open Source, TTS tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplettsreader/ Install this and have it running and the instructor will speak using one of the built in voices in the speech engine built into Windows.

There are also various commercial TTS products with higher quality voices. For example, http://www.nextup.com/index.html

Configuration

If you want to alter the exercises (stroke counts, possible speeds, etc) edit the config.xml file in any text editor. The file contains brief instructions about what each of the settings does.

Captions

The core training instructions are built into the program, but the taunts (or encouragements if the subject responds better to these) between each exercise are read from captions.txt. So if you don't like the ones provided just edit this file to provide your own.

One caption will be read between each exercise, along with a random rest. The taunts can be switched off entirely as described in config.xml discussed above.

Have fun!