0.9.0 release candidate 4

[Didier Spaier]

Hello Samuel,

Can you please elaborate on the purpose and uses cases
of the new EspeakIndexing option?

I wish you and everyone a Happy New Year.

Best,

Didier

On 01/01/2019 19:23, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have made a fourth 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.
> 
> Since rc3:
> 
> - Exclude dummy and generic from spd-say module list output
> - Disable indexing in Baratinoo module
> - Add EspeakIndexing option
> - Detect cicero presence
> 
> Since rc2:
> 
> - Fix indexing in baratinoo module
> - Fix crashes on speech stop
> - Do not list all generic modules, only those for which the command is 
> available.
> 
> Since rc1:ose
> 
> - Fix bogus behavior on empty string options
> - Fix some rare leaks
> - Set default language to current locale
> 
> 
> * 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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