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+# Intro
+This is the GUI Interface to a proprietary server that interfaces with speech recognition backends.
+
+![GUI Main-Window](https://media.atlantishq.de/qt_client.png)
+
+# Build on Linux
+This is a qt-creator project and can be imported as such. To build for Windows (on Linux) you need [MXE](https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git).
+
+To download and compile MXE and dependencies:
+
+    git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git
+    cd mxe && make qtbase
+    make -j 4 qt qt5 MXE_TARGETS='x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared i686-w64-mingw32.shared x86_64-w64-mingw32.static i686-w64-mingw32.static'
+    make qtbase
+
+Setup the actual compilation enviroment:
+
+    MXE_ROOT=/path/to/mxe/root/
+    export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:$MXE_ROOT/usr/bin
+    $MXE_ROOT/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32.static-qmake-qt5
+    make
+
+Also check the ``cross_compile.sh`` file in this project.
+
+# Build on Windows
+If you want to build this project on windows, you need change the way this project determines some of it's defines in the project file.
+
+# Build for Mac
+This project does not currently support Mac.