Re: [orca-list] Speech Dispatcher 0.6.6 Released

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Is there some particular reason why speech-dispatcher still needs the
festival-freebsoft-utils as a build dependency? Why can't
festival-freebsoft-utils just be a separate package? I don't see how
those come into play for Orca. Am I wrong?

Also, the latest speechd_up appears to be 
0.3rc1 from 2005. Is that correct? A two plus year old build is still an
RC?

Janina


Hynek Hanke writes:
> Speech Dispatcher 0.6.6
> =======================
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> The Brailcom organization is happy to announce the availability of
> Speech Dispatcher 0.6.6 developed as a part of the Free(b)Soft
> project. This is a minor release, it contains mostly bugfixes.
> Please read `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 0.6.6?
>
> - Bugfixes (SMP related, ALSA output, libspeechd reconnection
>     and others)
>
> NOTES (0.6.6)
>
>    - There are changes in the configuration file since the previous
>      release. It is highly recommended to replace your speechd.conf
>      file with the speechd.conf provided in this package and copy your
>      settings there if you are upgrading from 0.6.3 or any older
>      versions. The old configuration file should however also work.
>
>    - 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-0.6.6.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
> <mailto:speechd lists freebsoft org>>
>
>
> Happy synthesizing!
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