From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out4.iol.cz ([194.228.2.92]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Epw4v-00044N-00 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:12:01 -0500 Received: from antivir4.iol.cz (unknown [192.168.30.209]) by smtp-out4.iol.cz (Internet on Line ESMTP server) with ESMTP id E2C2433C180 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:11:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (antivir4.iol.cz [127.0.0.1]) by antivir4.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68D7650003 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:11:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp-out4.iol.cz (mta-out4 [192.168.30.31]) by antivir4.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B5D650002 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:11:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.36] (unknown [80.188.214.108]) by smtp-out4.iol.cz (Internet on Line ESMTP server) with ESMTP id 7259722AEF0 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:11:30 +0100 (CET) From: Hynek Hanke To: Speakup Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:16:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1135379773.4679.10.camel@chopin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at iol.cz Subject: Gnome Speech driver for Speech Dispatcher available X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:12:01 -0000 Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver 0.1 beta ==================================== The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of the Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver beta developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft project. This is not a final stable release. We will welcome any help with testing so that we can discover possible bugs. Please read `NOTES' bellow. * What is Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver? Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver is a driver for Gnome Speech that makes it possible to use Gnome Speech (and thus the Gnopernicus screen reader) on top of Speech Dispatcher. * What is Speech Dispatcher? Speech Dispatcher is a device and desktop 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. The architecture of Speech Dispatcher is based on a proven client/server model. The basic means of client communication with Speech Dispatcher is through a TCP connection using the Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol (SSIP). 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 and (non-free) Dectalk software are supported. Festival is an advanced Free Software synthesizer supporting various languages. - Client-based configuration allows users to configure different settings for different clients that connect to Speech Dispatcher. - Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a shared library, Python, Common Lisp and Guile interface. An Elisp library is developed as a sperate project speechd-el. Possibly an interface to any other language can be developed. You can get it and find more information at http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd * Notes You need to install Speech Dispatcher 0.6 or higher before installing this version of Gnome Speech SpeechD Driver. This version of Speech Dispatcher is currently available as 0.6rc1 (Release Candidate 1). * Where to get it? You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/gnome-speech-speechd-driver-0.1b.tar.gz The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/gnome-speech-speechd-driver * How to report bugs? Please report bugs at . For other contact please use . Happy synthesizing!