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About speech dispatcher


From: Tomas Cerha
Subject: About speech dispatcher
Date: Sun Aug 13 12:52:48 2006

Yannick PLASSIARD wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm interrested in this project and would like to develop an
> interface to a French synthesis system callec `cicero`. This
> TTS is written in Python.

Hello Yannick,

Sorry for a late reply.  I just got back from a vacation...

The key developer of Speech Dispetcher is Hynek Hanke.  I CC this
message to him, so he will probably give you more information.  I also
CC to the Speech Dispatcher development mailing-list.

Writing an output module for Cicero should not be a problem.
Technically, the module could be even written in Python, since Speech
Dispatcher's output modules run as separate processes communicating with
 the core over a socket, but I'm not sure whether there is not some
limitation imposed by server implementation (loading the plugins etc.).
 I guess Hynek will comment on that.

> Are there any Python interfaces to speech-dispatcher?

There is currently a Python client library.  I'm not sure how complete
it is, but in general it allows you to send messages directly from your
application to Speech Dispatcher.  This will not help you with writing
the output module, but it could be extended in such a way, since the
communication protocol of output modules and the server core uses very
simillar rules as SSIP, which is the client protocol implemented by the
Python client library.

> Is there a CVS or SVN repository to get the last developpment release
> of speech-dispatcher?

You can find information about Speech Dispatcher CVS at
http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd.  There is also a complete developers
documentation (including information about writing output modules).

> Is the project always maintained (I saw your name on
> www.freebsoft.org/).

Yes, the project is still in active development and I recommend
subscribing to the mailing list at
http://lists.freebsoft.org/mailman/listinfo/speechd.

> Moreover, a second project would be to make a link bitween
> gnome-speech and speech-dispatcher; what do you think about this idea ?

Yes, we cooperate with Gnome people on that as well as with KDE people
on KTTS and Speech Dispatcher integration.  I'm not sure what was the
latest development in this area.  Would someone else add this information?

Kindest regards

Tomas Cerha

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