[Speect-users] Speect 1.0.0 release

[Aby L. <ja...@cs...>]

Announcement of release of:

             Speect version 1.0.0
                  October 2011

http://speect.sourceforge.net/


Speect
======

Speect is a multilingual TTS system. It offers a full text-to-speech
system with various API's, as well as an environment for research and
development of TTS systems and voices.

It is written in ANSI C and uses a plug-in mechanism for
extensions. Speect also includes an extensive set of Python bindings
for quick implementation of new ideas, these bindings are derived from
SWIG interface files and can easily be extended for other languages
supported by SWIG.

Speect is free and open source software. As a collection it is
distributed under a MIT license.


New features
------------

Speect version 1.0.0 is a major update which includes the following
features:
  * Refactoring of build system, engine and plug-ins built together,
  * plug-in templates,
  * Python bindings for linguistic objects,
  * load voices defined in Python functions,
  * support for hts_engine versions 1.03, 1.04 and 1.05,
  * syllabification module for syllabification with rewrite rules,
  * callbacks to logging system, can now be integrated with external
    logging mechanism (for example uses Python's logging module in
    Python)
  * Doxygen C API documentation integrated with Sphinx documentation
    generation,
  * extensive topic documentation,
  * lots of bug fixes.


Debian packages
---------------

Speect has a project page on Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/~speect)
from which Debian packages can be downloaded and installed.


regards,
Aby Louw

on behalf of the Human Language Technologies Group,
Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa.
http://www.meraka.org.za/humanLanguage.htm


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