| Speech Dispatcher 0.9 |
| ===================== |
| |
| Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.9 developed as a part of |
| the Free(b)Soft project. |
| |
| * What is new in 0.9? |
| |
| - Add configuration file for espeak-ng + mbrola |
| - Add support for Baratinoo (VoxyGen), Kali, and Mary-TTS |
| - Better manage volume for generic-based modules. |
| - Auto-detect module availability. |
| - Make generic module provide voice list. |
| - Add systemd unit file. |
| |
| * Where to get it? |
| |
| You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from |
| https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/archive/0.9.tar.gz |
| |
| We recommend the use of sound icons with Speech Dispatcher. |
| They are available at |
| http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz |
| |
| Corresponding distribution packages should soon be available at |
| your distribution mirrors. |
| |
| The home page of the project is https://github.com/brailcom/speechd |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| 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, Espeak |
| and (non-free) Dectalk software, IBM TTS, Pico and others are |
| supported. Festival is an advanced Free Software synthesizer |
| supporting various languages. Espeak is a very fast multi-lingual |
| Free Software synthesizer. |
| |
| - Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a |
| shared library. Python, Common Lisp and Guile interfaces. An Elisp |
| and Java libraries are developed as sperate projects speechd-el |
| and speechd-java. Possibly an interface to any other language can |
| be developed. |
| |
| * How to report bugs? |
| |
| Please report bugs at https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues . |
| For other contact please use either the above link or our mailing list |
| <speechd-discuss@nongnu.org> . |
| |
| Happy synthesizing! |
| |
| |
| Copyright (C) 2004-2013 Brailcom, o.p.s |
| Copyright (C) 2010 William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> |
| Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> |
| Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> |
| |
| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under |
| the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software |
| Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later |
| version. |
| |
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY |
| WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A |
| PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details (file |
| COPYING in the root directory). |
| |
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| along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
