RE: SSIP for Windows -- beta almost ready for release
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:44:23 -0500
I made an agreement with chant that basically says any, every, and all
users of the software we're releasing can use it for absolutely no cost to
them, so no worries there.
Take care,
Sina
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Greer
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:30 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SSIP for Windows -- beta almost ready for release
If it is for bridging speech from Linux to Windows and vice versa how does
it bridge the 2 different accessibility models between linux and windows. I
did go to the freeby soft home page and found speech dispatcher that bridges
KDE and Gnome but no info concerning the current project. Also from my
understanding Chant XML and tts technologies is not free, so how much does
that add to the cost per user if any?
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From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: SSIP for Windows -- beta almost ready for release
> 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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