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0.9.0 release candidate 2


From: Fernando Botelho
Subject: 0.9.0 release candidate 2
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:52:36 -0200

Wonderful! Well done guys!


Fernando



On 11/26/2018 12:45 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have made a third release candidate.
>
> Samuel
>
> 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/releases/download/0.9.0-rc3/speech-dispatcher-0.9.0-rc3.tar.gz
>
>    Debian packages will also be available in debian experimental soon.
>
>    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 at lists.freebsoft.org> .
>
> Happy synthesizing!
>
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