RE: Announcing Phonemic 1.0
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 07:03:37 -0400
Hi Andreas,
If your project has an RSS feed, can you please send the link? Source Forge is
blocked from here.
Thanks.
Jim
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Subject: Re: Announcing Phonemic 1.0
hmmm, thank you Andreas
another one to add to the list of your contributions, smile.
inthane
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From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 1:10 PM
Subject: Announcing Phonemic 1.0
> All,
>
> My team would would like to officially announce the release of
> software product called Phonemic. Phonemic 1.0 is an open-source
> library for doing screen-reader compatible text-to-speech in Java.
> Phonemic can be used on a host of operating systems and is the same
> text-to-speech engine used in the Sodbeans project and in the Hop
> programming language. It can be downloaded from our sourceforge page:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/phonemic/
>
> Here are our official release notes:
>
> = Phonemic version 1.0, June 1, 2011 =
>
> == Introduction ==
> This is the first official release of the Phonemic speech library.
> Phonemic is a Java library that allows its users to write
> cross-platform speaking applications.
>
> == Big Features ==
> * Support for many major speech systems, including Microsoft SAPI,
> JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and ORCA.
> * Provides a single API to communicate with all engines.
> * Support for various types of speech modifications (when available):
> * Volume control
> * Pitch control (either manually or automatically through the
> speakChar functions).
> * Speed control
> * Speech modifications are consistent across engines.
> * Support for blocking speech calls (when available).
> * Ability to query an engine for its features.
> * Ability to switch engines on the fly (Windows and Mac OS X only).
> * A queuing system that enables the use of speech priorities, even
> when not supported natively by the engine.
> * A speech processing mechanism to enable advanced pre-processing of
> speech before it is sent to an engine.
> * Ability to query for / change voice when supported by the engine.
>
> == Supported Engines ==
> Phonemic currently supports the following platforms and speech engines:
>
> * Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7:
> * Microsoft Speech API (SAPI)
> * JAWS
> * NVDA
> * Mac OS X
> * Carbon (on Intel Macs only), the same speech interface used by
> VoiceOver.
> * The `say' command
> * Linux
> * speech-dispatcher (available by default on Vinux and Ubuntu), the
> same speech interface used by ORCA.
>
> == Usage ==
> The Phonemic library is a .jar file that must be included in your java
> project. In addition to the phonemic.jar file, your program must
> include the appropriate JNI libraries for the various platforms you
> intend to support. These files can be found under the jni directory.
> For more information on how to use Phonemic, see the wiki page:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/phonemic/wiki/UsingPhonemic
>
> The libraries are as follows. Note that if you do not intend to
> support a particular platform, you do not have to include its
> libraries in your distribution.
>
> * Windows XP (32-bit only), Windows Vista and Windows 7
> * Interop.SpeechLib.5.3.dll (SAPI supporting DLLs)
> * SappyJNI.dll (SAPI, JAWS and NVDA support, 32-bit)
> * SappyJNI64.dll (SAPI, JAWS and NVDA support, 64-bit)
> * nvdaControllerClient[32|64].dll (NVDA support)
> * Mac OS X
> * libCarbonSpeakJNI.jnilib (Carbon support)
> * Linux
> * libLinuxSpeakJNI.so (speech-dispatcher support)
>
> A simple demo application is included as a Netbeans project under the
> example directory.
>
> == Build Notes ==
> Although libraries come with Phonemic pre-built, should you want to
> modify any of them, it is necessary to use the following systems.
>
> * Windows
> * To modify the Windows DLL (SappyJNI/SappyJNI64.dll), Visual Studio
> 2008 must be used. The libraries will build on Visual Studio 2010,
> however, they will not run on all systems.
> * Mac OS X
> * To modify the Carbon speech library, libCarbonSpeakJNI.jnilib, you
> must use XCode 3. (3.2.1 preferred) XCode 4 has not been tested.
> * Linux
> * The Linux library (libLinuxSpeakJNI.so) can be loaded as a standard
> Netbeans project.
>
> I would like to thank my team here for their work on the project,
> including Kim Slattery, Susanna Siebert, Melissa Stefik, and
> especially Jeff Wilson, the lead developer on this project.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Computer Science
> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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