Speech Dispatcher 0.7 Released

[Dan Tihelka]

Dear Speech Dispatcher team.

Are there any plans to include module with interface to SpeechTechTTS engine? 
See the thread 
http://lists.freebsoft.org/pipermail/speechd/2009q3/001770.html - New 
Czech/Slovak TTS module for speech dispatcher.

Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
D. Tihelka


On Wednesday 16 of June 2010 16:49:52 Hynek Hanke wrote:
> Speech Dispatcher 0.7 Released
> ==============================
>
> The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of
> Speech Dispatcher 0.7 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft
> project. Please read `NOTES' bellow.
>
> * What is new in 0.7?
>
>   * Speech Dispatcher uses UNIX style sockets as default means
>     of communication, thus avoiding the necessity to choose a numeric
>     port and greatly easying session integration and adressing several
>     security issues
>
>   * Autospawn -- server is started automatically when a client requests it
>     It can be forbidden in the appropriate server configuration file
>     (thanks to Luke Yelavich)
>
>   * Pulse Audio output reworked and fixed (thanks to Rui Batista)
>
>   * Dispatcher runs as user service (not system service) by default
>     and doesn't require the previous presence of ~/.speech-dispatcher
>     directory
>
>   * Graceful audio fallback (e.g. if pulse is not working, use Alsa...)
>     (thanks to Luke Yelavich)
>
>   * Various bugfixes and fine-tunnings
>
>   * Updated documentation
>
> NOTES for packagers: The communication mechanism of Speech Dispatcher
> and the way of starting it has been severely reworked in this release.
> Some ./configure variables as PIDPATH are no longer relevant. It is highly
> recommended to start Speech Dispatcher per-user in his user session
> and avoid starting it as a system service via /etc/init.d/. Please check
> the updated documentation, especially the part Technical Specification.
>
> * Where to get it?
>
>    You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
>
> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.7.tar.gz
>
>    We recommend you to fetch the sound icons for use with Speech
> Dispatcher. They are available at
>    http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz
>
>    Corresponding Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu packages will soon be
> available at
>    your distribution mirrors.
>
>    The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/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 are supported. Festival
>      is an advanced Free Software synthesizer supporting various languages.
>      Espeak is a very fast multi-lingual synthesizer.
>
>    - 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. Python, Common Lisp and Guile interface. An Elisp
> library
>      is developed as a sperate project speechd-el. Possibly an interface
>      to any other language can be developed.
>
> * How to report bugs?
>
>    Please report bugs at <speechd- at address@hidden>. For other
>    contact please use <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Brailcom, o.p.s.
> http://www.brailcom.org
>
>
>
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