[orca-list] Speech Dispatcher 0.6.5 released

[Hynek Hanke <hanke brailcom org>]

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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