Re: [orca-list] Speech Dispatcher 0.6.5 released - slackware package

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Just to add to the list of distro packages, I have just produced a
slackware12.0 package for this and it can be found at
www.mwhapples.plus.com. For those who don't like pre-compiled packages,
the SlackBuild script used is included in the package, so you can
decompress the package in any folder and check this and create your own
package as desired.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:04 +0100, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> Speech Dispatcher 0.6.5
> =====================
> 
> The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of Speech
> Dispatcher 0.6.5 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft project. This
> is a minor release, it contains mostly bugfixes and minor improvements.
> Please read `What is new' and `NOTES' bellow.
> 
> * 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 are supported. Festival
>      is an advanced Free Software synthesizer supporting various
>      languages. Espeak is a very fast multi-lingual synthesizer.
> 
>    - 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.
> 
> * What is new in 0.6.5?
> 
>   - Pulse Audio output module (thanks to Gilles Casse)
> 
>   - Speech Dispatcher is now adapted for easy setup and using
>     under ordinary system user accounts
> 
>   - Bugfixes
> 
>   NOTES (0.6.5)
> 
>     - There are changes in the configuration file. It is highly
>       recommended to replace your speechd.conf file with the
>       speechd.conf provided in this package and copy your settings
>       there. The old configuration file should however also work.
> 
>     - Default output module has been switched to espeak.
> 
>     - By default, the communication port of Speech Dispatcher
>       is only opened for localhost connections. Please see
>       the LocalhostAccessOnly option in speechd.conf for
>       information on how to allow connections from other
>       manchines as well.
> 
> * Where to get it?
> 
>    You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
> 
> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.6.5.tar.gz
> 
>    We recommend you to fetch the sound icons for use with Speech Dispatcher.
>    They are available at
>    http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz
> 
>    Corresponding Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu packages will soon be 
> available at
>    your distribution mirrors.
> 
>    The home page of the project is http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
> 
> * How to report bugs?
> 
>    Please report bugs at <speechd bugs freebsoft org>. For other
>    contact please use <speechd lists freebsoft org>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy synthesizing!
> 
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