Re: 0.11.0 rc1 beta release!

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le mer. 16 juin 2021 23:23:12 +0200, a ecrit:
> Things seem stable, so I'm doing an RC1 release for the 0.11.0 version.
> Please test intensively, since it contains the move of audio play into
> the server!

I forgot the make distcheck step so it's broken :)

Let me restart.

Samuel

> Speech Dispatcher 0.11.0
> ========================
> 
> Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.11.0 developed as a part of
> the Free(b)Soft project.
> 
> * What is new in 0.11.0?
> 
> - Support playing audio through the server.
> - Simplify modules thanks to this.
> - modules: Add support for loading from user's .local/share/speech-dispatcher.
> - symbols: Process symbols.dic before emojis.dic.
> - symbols: Enable speechd symbols processing by default.
> - modules: Moved speech dispatcher modules to 
> /usr/libexec/speech-dispatcher-modules
> - (but keep compatibility with old /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules path).
> - ibmtts/voxin: Improve language selection.
> - ibmtts/voxin: Add option to disable punctuation commands.
> - ibmtts: Fix library load.
> - ibmtts: Do not build by default on other systems than 32bit PC.
> - mary: Add auto-detection.
> - mary: Add newer voices.
> - mary: Add volume, pitch, and rate support.
> - ivona: Add auto-detection.
> - festival: Strip head silence.
> - generic: Add DefaultVoice option.
> - es_ES: Add some gender neutral rules.
> - Add SPEECHD_CMD environment variable.
> - modules: Rewrite main functions with BSD licence, to let proprietary 
> modules easily reuse this as a basis.
> - modules: Add skeletons ready for use as a basis for new modules.
> - Add script to run speechd from the build tree.
> - Update CLDR to version 39, symbols from NVDA and orca.
> - Add Esperanto translation.
> 
> * Where to get it?
> 
>   You can get the distribution tarball of the released version from
>   
> https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/releases/download/0.11.0-rc1/speech-dispatcher-0.11.0-rc1.tar.gz
> 
>   Debian packages will also be available in debian experimental soon.
> 
>   We recommend the use of sound icons with Speech Dispatcher.
>   They are available at
>   http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/sound-icons/sound-icons-0.1.tar.gz
> 
>   Corresponding distribution packages should soon be available at
>   your distribution mirrors.
> 
>   The home page of the project is https://github.com/brailcom/speechd
> 
> * 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, Pico and others are
>     supported. Festival is an advanced Free Software synthesizer
>     supporting various languages. Espeak is a very fast multi-lingual
>     Free Software synthesizer.
> 
>   - Simple interface for programs written in C, C++ provided through a
>     shared library. Python, Common Lisp and Guile interfaces. An Elisp
>     and Java libraries are developed as sperate projects speechd-el
>     and speechd-java. Possibly an interface to any other language can
>     be developed.
> 
> * How to report bugs?
> 
>   Please report bugs at https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues .
>   For other contact please use either the above link or our mailing list
>   <speechd-discuss@nongnu.org> .
> 
> Happy synthesizing!

-- 
Samuel
> No manual is ever necessary.
May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT.  That's the biggest Apple lie of all!
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)