# The audio/speech-dispatcher port

## speech-dispatcher-0.11.5p2 – common interface to speech synthesis

## Description

    The Speech Dispatcher project provides a high-level device independent
    layer for access to speech synthesis through a simple, stable and well
    documented interface.

    Key features:
        o Common interface to different TTS engines.
        o Handling concurrent synthesis requests - requests may come
          assynchronously from multiple sources within an application and/or
          from different applications.
        o Subsequent serialization, resolution of conflicts and priorities
          of incomming requests.
        o Context switching - state is maintained for each client connection
          independently, event for connections from within one application.
        o High-level client interfaces for popular programming languages.
        o Common sound output handling - audio playback is handled by Speech
          Dispatcher rather than the TTS engine, since most engines have
          limited sound output capabilities.

WWW: http://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd

Categories:
  audio lang/python

## Library dependencies

- audio/espeak
- audio/libao
- audio/libsndfile
- devel/dotconf
- devel/glib2
- devel/libtool,-ltdl

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=0.41.1p0:textproc/intltool
- devel/gmake
- devel/libtool
- lang/python/3
- print/texinfo

## Run dependencies

- devel/py-xdg
- lang/python/3