SpeechD-Up 0.3rc1
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The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of
SpeechD-Up 0.3 Release Candidate 1 developed as a part of the
Free(b)Soft project. This is not a final stable release. We will welcome
any help with testing so that we can discover possible bugs before the
final release. Please read `What is new' and `NOTES' bellow.
* What is Speech Dispatcher?
SpechD-Up is a very simple simple interface from Speakup to Speech
Dispatcher making it possible to use Speakup with software synthesis.
Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader allowing blind and visually
impaired people to use the computer.
* What is new in 0.3?
- Support for the 'Read All' command in Speakup
(thanks to Michael McDonald)
- Bugfixes
NOTES:
- You need to upgrade to Speech Dispatcher 0.6 before installing
this version of SpeechD-Up. Please visit
http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
- Currently, it is possible to use 'Read All' with Festival, one of
the most advanced Free Software TTS system. The other simpler ones
don't support index marking. You need to update Speakup to a
recent version, if you like to try.
* Where to get it?
You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speechd-up-0.3rc1.tar.gz
The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-up
* How to report bugs?
Please report bugs at <speechd at bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
contact please use <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>
Happy synthesizing!
