Speech Dispatcher 0.1 released ============================== The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the release of Speech Dispatcher 0.1 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 Independent 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 and Epos 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 and C++ provided through a shared library. There is also an Elisp library being developed as a separate project speechd-el, Python library. Possibly an interface to any other language can be developed. * Where to get it? You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speechd-0.1.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 available at http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/deb/ and http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/deb/ . 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! -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 224921679 Mob: (00420) 608023021