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README for FLite Emacspeak server
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This code allows Emacspeak, as well as yasr and potentially Brass, to
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interface with the Festival Lite speech synthesizer. It is currently in
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the beta stage and not necessarily well polished (well, neither is its
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documentation, for that matter), but it is working for me, although I have
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done most of my testing with yasr. See the file INSTALL for instructions
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on compiling eflite and getting it to work with screen readers.
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Eflite uses the audio library included with Festival Lite, so it
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theoretically inherits ALSA support, although I seem to remember having
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trouble getting the ALSA code to compile (it seems that the ALSA API
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differs depending on which version is being used).
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The source is divided into two parts: a generic parser (es.c and some
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helper files) and a file for interfacing with Festival Lite (fs.c).
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The interface used by fs.c is borrowed from Roger Butenuth's speech
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library used by BRASS (in fact, I used his ViaVoice module as a starting
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point to write fs.c). However, fs.c can be built to link against
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es.c directly if STANDALONE is defined (this is done in the Makefile).
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There may be legal issues that would arise if fs.c were linked against
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libspeech.a from BRASS, since BRASS is GPLed whereas FLite is not,
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but I am not sure one way or the other.
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Send flames, bug reports, etc. to mgorse@alum.wpi.edu. You can also
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catch me on #blinux on openprojects, as "vortex"
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