Announcing Speech Dispatcher 0.8.3.

[Jeremy Whiting]

Luke,

Thanks, hope you don't mind I spread the word a bit.

BR,
Jeremy


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Luke Yelavich
<luke.yelavich at canonical.com> wrote:
> Speech Dispatcher 0.8.3
> =====================
>
> Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.8.3 developed as a part of
> the Free(b)Soft project.
>
> * What is new in 0.8.3?
>
>  - Add API methods to get language, rate, pitch, and volume.
>
>  -  A lot of code cleanup, and compatibility improvements.
>
>  - Removed all references to GNOME Speech, since it has long since been
>    deprecated.
>
>  - Fix some inconsistancy in the SSIP API for voice type.
>
>  - The SET VOICE SSIP command is now deprecated, and will be removed in 0.9.
>
>  - The C library API now provides macro definitions for major, minor, and 
> micro
>    versions in libspeechd_versions.h.
>
>  - The libsndfile library is now a mandetory dependency to improve the user
>    experience around sound icons.
>
>  - Fix a possible crash in the festival driver.
>
>  - Add a configuration option to the espeak driver to show voice variants in
>    the voice list. This will remain until a proper variants retrieval API is
>    added for compatible synthesizers.
>
> * Where to get it?
>
>   You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
>   http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.8.3.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 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, 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://its.freebsoft.org/its/issues/project/1876 .
>   For other contact please use either the above link or our mailing list
>   <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org> .
>
>
> Happy synthesizing!
>
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