Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1 available

[ace]

OK, so, if I'm understanding this correctly, Speech Dispatcher is the Linux 
alternative of the Windows SAPI?

At 04:09 AM 7/2/04, you wrote:


>Speech Dispatcher 0.5 Release Candidate 1
>=========================================
>
>The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of
>Speech Dispatcher 0.5-rc1 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft
>project.
>
>This is a Release Candidate version, so we invite everyone to help
>us testing it before we finally release the 0.5 version.
>
>* What is Speech Dispatcher?
>
>   Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer for speech
>   synthesis, developed with the goal of making the usage of speech
>   synthesis easier for application programmers. It takes care of most
>   of the tasks necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What
>   is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is
>   to speech synthesis.
>
>   The architecture of Speech Dispatcher is based on a proven
>   client/server model. The basic means of client communication
>   with Speech Dispatcher is through a TCP connection using the Speech
>   Synthesis Interface Protocol (SSIP).
>
>   Key Speech Dispatcher features are:
>
>   - Message priority model that allows multiple simultaneous
>     connections to Speech Dispatcher from one or more clients
>     and tries to provide the user with the most important messages.
>
>   - Different output modules that talk to different synthesizers
>     so that the programmer doesn't need to care which particular
>     synthesizer is being used. Currently Festival, Flite, Epos and
>     (non-free) Dectalk software are supported.
>
>   - Client-based configuration allows users to configure different
>     settings for different clients that connect to Speech Dispatcher.
>
>   - Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a
>     shared library, Common Lisp and Guile interface. The
>     Python interface is being worked on. An Elisp library is
>     developed as a sperate project speechd-el. Possibly an interface
>     to any other language can be developed.
>
>* What is new in 0.5-rc1?
>
>  - SSIP now supports SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) messages.
>
>  - Communication with Festival is highly improved.
>
>  - Improved DTK Software Synthesis support.
>
>  NOTE: The communication mode of the Festival output module (SSML mode)
>  is incompatible with the previous festival-freebsoft-utils releases.
>  You need to install festival-freebsoft-utils 0.3 or higher!
>
>* Where to get it?
>
>   You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
> 
>http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.5-rc1.tar.gz
>
>   You also need to get festival-freebsoft-utils in version 0.3 or newer
>   http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils/
>
>   We recommend you to fetch the sound icons Speech Dispatcher can use as
>   well. They are available at
>   http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz
>
>   Corresponding Debian packages will be available at your
>   Debian distribution mirror as soon as the official version 0.5 is released.
>   (We would highly appreciate any help with RPM distribution!)
>
>   The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
>
>* How to report bugs?
>
>   Please report bugs at <speechd at bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
>   contact please use <speechd at freebsoft.org>
>
>
>Happy synthesizing!
>
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