0.12.0 release

Version 0.12

• Add openjtalk module.
• Add socket activation.
• Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command.
• Add libspeechd-module library for making it simpler to create external spd modules.
• libspeechd: Simplify buffer management.
• Fix use of semaphores on MacOS.
• Fix splitting long UTF-8 sequences.
• Update CLDR to version 45, symbols from orca 45.2, and symbols from NVDA.
• Add spd_fd function to C api.
• Detect module failures from generic module.
• Make the fallback espeak-ng and dummy modules hardcoded.
• Better detect generic module failures to disable them.
• pulse: Use asynchronous API to avoid buffer underruns.
• generic: Make stripping punctuation use locale charset.
• audio: Fix logging from audio modules in server-side audio.
• Sort Baratinoo engine higher.
• espeak-ng-mbrola: Fix mbrola voices with rate different from 22KHz
• Add a run-spd-say script and make run-speechd and run-spd-say able to talk directly.
• server: fix daemon mode on macOS with libao.
• Add initial pipewire support.
• Also support loading symbols from home directory

0.11.5 release

Version 0.11.5

• Update CLDR to version 43 and symbols from NVDA.
• Fix parsing and emitting space character.
• Reduce espeak buffer size to avoid ssml issues.
• Add --disable-doc.
• Fix spd-conf not being able to set the default module.
• Fix pausing without index.
• ibmtts: Fix parameter reset.
• ibmtts: Disable using the module punctuation by default.

0.11.4 release

What is new in 0.11.4?

• Update CLDR to version 42 and symbols from NVDA.
• Fix audio plugin loading with dlopen.
• Fix atomicity of getting reply in threaded mode.

0.11.3 release

What is new in 0.11.3?

• Fix back DefaultModule configuration.
• pico: Avoid falling to english when passed a bogus voice name.
• espeak: Fix setting voice type.

0.11.2 release

What is new in 0.11.2?

• Fix loading xx-yy locales.
• Various memory leaks fixes.
• Add mimic3 configuration file.
• pico: Fix setting language vs voice.
• Make sure that modules report a list of voices.
• Update CLDR to version 41, symbols from NVDA and orca.
• Allow building without ltdl.
• Re-enable SSML in espeak-ng-mbrola module.

0.11.1 release

What is new in 0.11.1?

• Add SPEECHD_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable.
• Fix listing voices of the default module.

0.11.0 release

What is new in 0.11.0?

• Support playing audio through the server.
• Simplify modules thanks to this.
• modules: Add support for loading from user's .local/libexec/speech-dispatcher.
• symbols: Process symbols.dic before emojis.dic.
• symbols: Enable speechd symbols processing by default.
• modules: Moved speech dispatcher modules to /usr/libexec/speech-dispatcher-modules
  (but keep compatibility with old /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules path).
• espeak-ng: Add support for mbrola voices.
• ibmtts/voxin: Improve language selection.
• ibmtts/voxin: Add option to disable punctuation commands.
• ibmtts: Fix library load.
• ibmtts: Do not build by default on other systems than 32bit PC.
• mary: Add auto-detection.
• mary: Add newer voices.
• mary: Add volume, pitch, and rate support.
• ivona: Add auto-detection.
• festival: Strip head silence.
• generic: Add DefaultVoice option.
• es_ES: Add some gender neutral rules.
• Add SPEECHD_CMD environment variable.
• modules: Rewrite main functions with BSD licence, to let proprietary modules easily reuse this as a basis.
• modules: Add skeletons ready for use as a basis for new modules.
• Add script to run speechd from the build tree.
• Update CLDR to version 39, symbols from NVDA and orca.
• Add Esperanto translation.
• Sort modules by quality, let the best quality module be the default.

What is new in 0.11.0 compared to 0.11.0-rc5?

• Sort modules by quality, let the best quality module be the default.

0.10.2 release

What is new in 0.10.2 ?

• generic: Add support for sound icons
• Add French, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian translations.
• Add voxin module variant.
• Factorize espeak module with espeak-ng module.
• Make ibmtts and voxin use the common queue helpers.
• Fix python bindings against python 3.9.
• Reference the golang bindings.
• Add spd_get_client_id.
• Make key, char and sound_icon commands return message id.
• Expose modulebindir in speech-dispatcher.pc.
• Remove generic modules for synths that have a non-generic module.

0.10.1

What is new in 0.10.1 ?

• Add punctuation level "most".
• Rework thread synchronization.
• Move espeak/espeak-ng audio queuing to shared file, rework it.
• Make baratinoo use this audio queueing, enable marks, and support
• responsiveness parameter.
• Add support for Baratinoo engine 8.6
• Show mark progression in spd-say.
• Add --character option to spd-say.
• Put country/region in language instead of variant.
• pico, generic: fix setting voice by language.
• generic: Add fallback voices for generic languages.
• symbols: Add support for SSML.
• symbols: Add SymbolPreprocFile directive to load several symbol files.
• symbols: Replace DefaultSymbolsPreproc directive with SymbolsPreproc directive
• to have more fine-grained control over server preprocessing.
• symbols: Import emojis and unicode font variants support from NVDA and Unicode
• CLDR and UnicodeData.
• symbols: Import some symbols from Orca.
• symbols: Add rules to drop gender-neutral forms.
• symbols: Add support for group references.
• Disable Mary-TTS module by default.
• Replace AudioPulseServer option with AudioPulseDevice.
• Fix default pulse latency to 10ms to avoid pulseaudio distorted output.
• Made client isolation stronger for Snap/Flatpak support.

Changes since 0.10.0-rc4:

• Update CLDR to version 37 and font variants to last version.
• spd-say: Fix synthesizing percent
• handle _pulse_open() errors in reconnect

Changes since 0.10.0:

• Fix including dic files

0.9.1 release

Announcing the availability of Speech Dispatcher 0.9.1

What is new in 0.9.1 ?

• Add module for the non-free IBM TTS (voxin) speech synthesis.
• Extend licence to later versions of GPL and LGPL.
• Update mailing list address to savannah.
• Make generic modules fallback to existing voices.