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! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Robby ace at tundra-com.net Network Administrator - irc.talkingirc.com http://www.talkingirc.com
