Speech Dispatcher 0.4 released

[Dawes, Stephen]

This is all good, but has the work done by Kirk and Jacob to get speakup
working with SPD been incorporated into this new release? If not,
everyone using SPD with speakup might want to not upgrade to this new
version.


Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Hynek Hanke
> Sent: 2004 May 28 5:46 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Speech Dispatcher 0.4 released
> 
> 
> 
> As some of you use speechd-up along with Speech Dispatcher to 
> interface Speakup to software synthesis, I think you might be 
> interested in the following announce.
> 
> Speech Dispatcher 0.4 released
> ==============================
> 
> The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the release
> of Speech Dispatcher 0.4 developed as a part of the 
> Free(b)Soft project.
> 
> * 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 and a Common Lisp 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 0.4?
> 
>   - Flite output is now installed with the 16-bit voice, if available.
> 
>   - The generic output module can now also set volume.
> 
>   - spd-say is now rewritten to accept the most important speech
>     parameters and thus provide a simple but useful Speech Dispatcher
>     client. Documentation is provided in info.
> 
>   - The C/C++ shared library interface now uses TCP_NODELAY to prevent
>     timeouts and make the communication faster.
> 
>   - Bugfixes.
> 
> * Where to get it?
> 
>   You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
>   
> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatche
r-0.4.tar.gz .

  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 are or soon will be available at your
  Debian distribution mirror. (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!
Hynek Hanke

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