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The goal of Speech Dispatcher project is to provide a high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well documented interface.
Key features:
* Common interface to different TTS engines
* Handling concurrent synthesis requests – requests may come assynchronously from multiple sources within an application and/or from more different applications
* Subsequent serialization, resolution of conflicts and priorities of incomming requests
* Context switching – state is maintained for each client connection independently, event for connections from within one application
* High-level client interfaces for popular programming languages
* Common sound output handling – audio playback is handled by Speech Dispatcher rather than the TTS engine, since most engines have limited sound output capabilities
What is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech synthesis.
The application neither needs to talk to the devices directly nor to handle concurrent access, sound output and other tricky aspects of the speech subsystem.
speech-dispatcher.spec
speechd-0.12.1.tar.bz2
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speech-dispatcher: A high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis
The goal of Speech Dispatcher project is to provide a high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well documented interface.Key features:
* Common interface to different TTS engines
* Handling concurrent synthesis requests – requests may come assynchronously from multiple sources within an application and/or from more different applications
* Subsequent serialization, resolution of conflicts and priorities of incomming requests
* Context switching – state is maintained for each client connection independently, event for connections from within one application
* High-level client interfaces for popular programming languages
* Common sound output handling – audio playback is handled by Speech Dispatcher rather than the TTS engine, since most engines have limited sound output capabilities
What is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech synthesis.
The application neither needs to talk to the devices directly nor to handle concurrent access, sound output and other tricky aspects of the speech subsystem.
| Name: | speech-dispatcher |
| Release: | 0.12.1-5mamba |
| Group: | System/Multimedia |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | LGPL |
| Size: | 4.41 MB |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/brailcom/speechd |
| Build time: | 2026-10-01 00:30:26 |
Source files
speech-dispatcher-piper-generic.confspeech-dispatcher.spec
speechd-0.12.1.tar.bz2
Binary packages and requirements
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | claude | 0.12.1-5mamba | - piper: no mandatory voice; add piper- - piper: add clients/piper.conf with explicit module list, piper first, espeak-ng default - piper: clients/piper.conf makes piper-generic the default module for Firefox - piper: move languages and voices to piper-generic.d/ |
| 2026-09-30 | claude | 0.12.1-4mamba | - add piper subpackage with piper-generic module config - move sd_generic from libspeechd to main package |
| 2026-07-14 | silvan | 0.12.1-3mamba | - rebuilt with python3 3.14 |
| 2026-05-20 | silvan | 0.12.1-2mamba | - split dummy sd module into its own speech-dispatcher-dummy package to remove speech-dispatcher-dummy entry in plasma mixer - move unnecessary systemd daemon service to speech-dispatcher-daemon subpackage - also added speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng-mbrola to prevent espeak-ng-mbrola module from spawning by default without mbrola |
| 2025-05-11 | autodist | 0.12.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2025-02-25 | autodist | 0.12.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-01-14 | silvan | 0.11.5-3mamba | - remove former patch for includedir in pkg-config file causing wrong concatenation in Cflags |
| 2023-10-15 | silvan | 0.11.5-2mamba | - rebuilt with python3 == 3.11 |
| 2023-08-07 | autodist | 0.11.5-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2022-10-31 | autodist | 0.11.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |