Re: SSIP for Windows -- beta almost ready for release
- From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:11:38 -0200
Hello,
You could also support eSpeak. I know it can be used via sapi, but
eSpeak offers also a interface via a dll which can be used. It could
even be installed with the SSIP server and be used as the default
vvoice, allowing applications to use speech in systems where neither
sapi nor JAWS or window eyes are installed or ready for use.
The eSpeak syntheziser offers several languages and there is active
work on it, and it runs also on *nix, making it a good choice for the
linux SSIP server, if it will be developped. I am sure its developper
I think he's called Jonatan will be happy helping out with that.
hth
Marlon
2007/11/26, Macarty, Jay {PBSG} <Jay.Macarty@xxxxxxxx>:
> All,
> Some of you may be aware that I have been working for some time now on a
> server for the Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol, SSIP, for the
> windows platform. I started out trying to implement the server in
> Auto-It but couldn't get the multi-threading functionality or object
> oriented capabilities I wanted. I then switched to ruby but the 1.8
> version didn't have the interface and abstract class support I wanted
> and the executable packaging wasn't quite what I wanted either. I have
> now switched the development over to C# and found the capabilities I
> wanted. There is still a little clean-up of the initial beta release and
> I'll have to find a website to host the download installer, but here is
> a description of the initial release.
>
> SSIP is a non-synthesizer specific protocol for producing speech output.
> The specs haven't been updated in a while but can be found at the URL
> http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/ssip.html
>
> SSIP uses a simple socket connection and a text command syntax. To
> produce the spoken output "this is a test." a calling client program
> might send these commands:
>
> set client_name j.macarty:demo:test1
> speak
> this is a test.
> .
>
> The set client_name command simply identifies this client session for
> tracking purposes since the server supports multiple client sessions
> concurrently. The speak command tells the server to start receiving text
> to be spoken. The text input is terminated by a line containing a single
> dot. this also triggers the server to send the text to the output speech
> channel.
>
> The SSIP for windows server supports output to JAWS, window-Eyes or
> SAPI. The SpeechManager class uses an interface named ITextToSpeech with
> implementation classes written for each of these 3 output channels. The
> server was written with C# 2.0, instead of 3.x, because some corporate
> builds, including ours here at work, are still using Dot Net 2.0. Rather
> than attempting to set up the COM interface for SAPI and Window-Eyes, I
> decided to use the tlbimp utility and build assemblies for them. This
> allowed for simply creating the objects like SpVoice for SAPI and
> SpeakClass for Window-Eyes. Also, once the assemblies were built, it was
> easier to examine them using the ildasm tool to see the method calls and
> signatures.
>
> The current server supports multiple client connections. I tried it out
> with 3 clients; one speaking thru JAWS, one speaking thru Window-Eyes,
> and one speaking thru SAPI. The SAPI interface also supports the SET
> RATE, SET VOICE, and SET VOLUME SSIP commands. The server also supports
> the SSIP CHAR command for immediately speaking a single character. The
> SSIP BLOCK structure command set and the Speech Synthesis Markup
> Language, SSML, support are not included in this release but will be
> added.
>
> The install includes a small Auto-It program called SSIPVoiceClient
> which allows one to test out the server. The client contains an input
> text field where you can enter SSIP commands to send to the server and
> an output text area which echoes back the server response codes.
>
> I'll post another update when I have arranged for a download host and
> have finished packaging up the install program. I'm hoping to provide a
> java client API for the SSIP server, if Sina hasn't already developed
> one, and some client examples in other languages as well.
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