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README for FLite Emacspeak server v0.2.0; 03/03/02 ======================================================================== This code allows Emacspeak, as well as yasr and potentially Brass, to interface with the Festival Lite speech synthesizer. It is currently in the beta stage and not necessarily well polished (well, neither is its documentation, for that matter), but it is working for me, although I have done most of my testing with yasr. See the file INSTALL for instructions on compiling eflite and getting it to work with screen readers. Eflite uses the audio library included with Festival Lite, so it theoretically inherits ALSA support, although I seem to remember having trouble getting the ALSA code to compile (it seems that the ALSA API differs depending on which version is being used). The source is divided into two parts: a generic parser (es.c and some helper files) and a file for interfacing with Festival Lite (fs.c). The interface used by fs.c is borrowed from Roger Butenuth's speech library used by BRASS (in fact, I used his ViaVoice module as a starting point to write fs.c). However, fs.c can be built to link against es.c directly if STANDALONE is defined (this is done in the Makefile). There may be legal issues that would arise if fs.c were linked against libspeech.a from BRASS, since BRASS is GPLed whereas FLite is not, but I am not sure one way or the other. Eflite takes the following options: -D: Run as a daemon and exit; do not read from stdin -d: enable debugging message -f <filename>: read input from <filename> -c <context>: Attach to eflite server for the given context (create it if it does not exist yet) -v: print version and exit The "-c" option can be useful when testing new versions of eflite. You do not want to lose speech with your "good" version while performing the test. You would start your test version like this: ./eflite -c test If the test version crashes, your old working version will not be affected. You may also use this option to for example run emacspeak and yasr in different contexts. Send flames, bug reports, etc. to mgorse@alum.wpi.edu. You can also catch me on #blinux on openprojects, as "vortex" -Michael P. Gorse- -mgorse@alum.wpi.edu
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