ANNOUNCE: GNOME Speech API (GSAPI) - v0.6.0

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Specification
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GNOME Speech API (GSAPI) v0.6.0


Description
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The GNOME Speech API (GSAPI) allows developers to incorporate speech
technology into user interfaces for their GNOME applications. This API
specifies a cross-platform interface to support command and control
recognizers, dictation systems and speech synthesizers.

It has been heavily influenced by the Java Speech API (see:
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech for more details).

This GSAPI release is just a specification, not an implementation.
The plan is to release it to the GNOME community for review. From
feedback provided by reviewers and our attempts to implement the API
as defined, the specification will be refined until it provides a
clean and consistent API. This will then be GNOME Speech v1.0.

Please send questions and comments about this specification to either
the authors (as listed in the AUTHORS file), the Desktop Development
mailing list (desktop-devel-list gnome org) or the GNOME Accessibility
mailing list <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>

Note that there is currently already a gnome-speech CVS module on
cvs.gnome.org. This provides a simple text-to-speech (TTS) API that
provides sufficient support to allow the gnopernicus screen reader to
function appropriately. For now, the GSAPI GNOME Speech module is being
kept as a separate entity to avoid confusion.


Download
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/GSAPI/0.6/

[although some of the ftp mirrors may take a little while to sync].


Acknowledgements
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Thanks to the folks that have helped review earlier versions of this API.
These include Will Walker, Paul Lamere, Marc Mulcahy, Bill Haneman,
Peter Korn and Michael Meeks.


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