Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing

[Michael Whapples]

Tried updating to the latest version of espeak, works fine now.

Would be good to have voice mapping control in the module as espeak offers 
so many more voices than speech-dispatcher offers, but in some ways that's 
more of a speech-dispatcher problem (it may have been better if it had a 
function to retrieve a list of voice names that clients could use, rather 
than this set number).

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing


>I have just downloaded it and installed it, seems to be working fine at
> the moment, and I am glad that there is now a espeak specific module.
> One question about the espeak module, how can I change the voice? I have
> tried setting the default voice in speechd.conf to FEMALE1 but it seems
> to not have changed anything (even after restarting speech-dispatcher,
> and even after a machine restart to make sure it did reload). Is it that
> the espeak module doesn't support the different voices?
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 00:09 -0700, Hynek Hanke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the Brailcom organization would like to ask for help with testing
>> Speech Dispatcher version 0.6.4 Beta1 for the upcomming release.
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>> You can download the distribution tarball at
>> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.6.4beta1.tar.gz
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>> What is new in 0.6.4?
>>  - Native output module for eSpeak (thanks to Lukas Loehrer)
>>         (called espeak, not espeak-generic)
>>  - Support for punctuation settings in the Generic output module
>>         (thanks to Steve Holmes)
>>  - Default audio output for all modules switched to ALSA
>>  - Support for listing output modules and voices supported by
>>    a synthesizer
>>  - Bug fixes (SMP related bugs, bugs in libspeechd and others)
>>
>> How to report bugs?
>>
>>   Please report bugs at <speechd at bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
>>   contact please use <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Hynek Hanke
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