0.10.2 release

What is new in 0.10.2 ?

• generic: Add support for sound icons
• Add French, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian translations.
• Add voxin module variant.
• Factorize espeak module with espeak-ng module.
• Make ibmtts and voxin use the common queue helpers.
• Fix python bindings against python 3.9.
• Reference the golang bindings.
• Add spd_get_client_id.
• Make key, char and sound_icon commands return message id.
• Expose modulebindir in speech-dispatcher.pc.
• Remove generic modules for synths that have a non-generic module.

0.10.1

What is new in 0.10.1 ?

• Add punctuation level "most".
• Rework thread synchronization.
• Move espeak/espeak-ng audio queuing to shared file, rework it.
• Make baratinoo use this audio queueing, enable marks, and support
• responsiveness parameter.
• Add support for Baratinoo engine 8.6
• Show mark progression in spd-say.
• Add --character option to spd-say.
• Put country/region in language instead of variant.
• pico, generic: fix setting voice by language.
• generic: Add fallback voices for generic languages.
• symbols: Add support for SSML.
• symbols: Add SymbolPreprocFile directive to load several symbol files.
• symbols: Replace DefaultSymbolsPreproc directive with SymbolsPreproc directive
• to have more fine-grained control over server preprocessing.
• symbols: Import emojis and unicode font variants support from NVDA and Unicode
• CLDR and UnicodeData.
• symbols: Import some symbols from Orca.
• symbols: Add rules to drop gender-neutral forms.
• symbols: Add support for group references.
• Disable Mary-TTS module by default.
• Replace AudioPulseServer option with AudioPulseDevice.
• Fix default pulse latency to 10ms to avoid pulseaudio distorted output.
• Made client isolation stronger for Snap/Flatpak support.

Changes since 0.10.0-rc4:

• Update CLDR to version 37 and font variants to last version.
• spd-say: Fix synthesizing percent
• handle _pulse_open() errors in reconnect

Changes since 0.10.0:

• Fix including dic files

0.9.1 release

Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.9.1

What is new in 0.9.1 ?

• Add module for the non-free IBM TTS (voxin) speech synthesis.
• Extend licence to later versions of GPL and LGPL.
• Update mailing list address to savannah.
• Make generic modules fallback to existing voices.

0.9.0 release

Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.9 rc4 developed as a part of
the Free(b)Soft project.

What is new in 0.9 ?

• Add configuration file for espeak-ng + mbrola
• Add support for Baratinoo (VoxyGen), Kali, and Mary-TTS
• Better manage volume for generic-based modules.
• Auto-detect module availability.
• Make generic module provide voice list.
• Add systemd unit file.