Speech Dispatcher 0.12.0 ======================== Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.12.0 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft project.
What is new in 0.12.0? * Add openjtalk module. * Add socket activation. * Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command. * libspeechd: Simplify buffer management. * Fix use of semaphores on MacOS. * Fix splitting long UTF-8 sequences. * Update CLDR to version 44 and symbols from NVDA. * Add spd_fd function to C api. * Detect module failures from generic module. * Make the fallback espeak-ng and dummy modules hardcoded. * Better detect generic module failures to disable them. * pulse: Use asynchronous API to avoid buffer underruns. * generic: Make stripping punctuation use locale charset. This is an RC release, so please give it a good test so we can iron out issues before releasing the eventual 0.12.0. * Where to get it? You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/releases/download/0.12.0-rc3/speech-dispatcher-0.12.0-rc3.tar.gz Debian packages will also be available in debian unstable 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-discuss@nongnu.org> . Happy synthesizing!
