Dear all, we are preparing a new release of Speech Dispatcher, which brings significant improvements, particularly in audio output, stability, security, easier installation and closer integration into the system.
We would like to ask you to help us with testing and report any issues so that we can fix them before the final release. You can find the 0.7 Beta version here: http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.7-beta.tar.gz This release is based on the great work done in the unofficial development branch managed by Luke Yelavich, but some parts needed to be reworked before an official release to ensure a cleaner design, conformance to standards and smoother interoperability with the rest of the system; the new changes were also documented etc. Most important improvements in this release: * Speech Dispatcher uses UNIX style sockets as default means of communication, thus avoiding the necessity to choose a numeric port and greatly easying session integration. Inet sockets are however still supported for communication over network. * Autospawn -- server is started automatically when a client requests it It can be forbidden in the appropriate server configuration file. * Pulse Audio output reworked and fixed * Dispatcher runs as user service (not system service) by default and doesn't require the previous presence of ~/.speech-dispatcher directory * All logging is now managed centrally, not by separate options * Graceful audio fallback (e.g. if Pulse is not working, use Alsa...) * Various bugfixes and fine-tunnings * Updated documentation For more detailed description of the changes, please see the Git log: http://git.freebsoft.org/?p=speechd.git <http://git.freebsoft.org/?p=speechd.git> The documentation can be found in the doc/ directory of the .tar.gz package. With Best regards, Hynek Hanke Brailcom, o.p.s. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
