New Czech/Slovak TTS module for speech dispatcher

[Luke Yelavich]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:24:56PM IST, Daniel Tihelka wrote:
> Just recently, our student Michal Siroky developed GPL module 
> (speechtech_tts.c and speechtech_tts.conf.dummy in the attachment) which 
> allows to use the Linux version of our TTS together with the 
> speech-dispatcher (the module is built and tested against 
> speech-dispatcher-0.6.7). Now, I would like to give you this module, and we 
> will be happy if it become the part of speech-dispatcher.
> 
> The module is GPL, of course, and it calls functions from the non-GPL 
> SpeechTech TTS library (I suppose that this does not violate the GPL 
> licence). 
> For the purposes of development and testing, we have also created very 
> simple dummy TTS (attached in SpeechTechTTSDummy.tar,bz2), just replaying the 
> given file.
> 
> We will appreciate your revision of the module code - you have much deeper 
> knowledge about SpeechD internals and the requirements for the module 
> behaviour than we do. If you have any comments, improvement suggestions or 
> questions, do not hesitate and send them to us (to me and to the Michal 
> <msiroky at students.zcu.cz>). We will try to improve or fix the issues 
> reported.

While I am not an ofificla upstream developer of speech-dispatcher, I have been 
doing a fair amount of work on the speech-dispatcher code recently. I would be 
happy to have a look at the code, and encorporate it into the speech-dispatcher 
code base.

Thanks very much for your email

Luke