Speech::SpeechDispatcher

      "What is a very high level GUI library to graphics, 
       Speech Dispatcher is to speech synthesis."
                                          -- Official Website

In short, Speech Dispatcher is a device-independant layer for
speech synthesis.  As long as the Speech Dispatcher user has at
least one of the supported speech synthesizers installed and
configured, the programmer need not be concerned with which one,
or how exactly to interface with it.  You just use one of the
interface modules (currently there is a well-developed C module,
and developing Python and Perl modules) and speak to that, and
the appropriate speech synthesizer will be used.  This is just a
sketchy outline of the main function, anybody interested in using
this module should check out the Speech Dispatcher website at:
   http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd
for full details.


WARNING:

   *** THIS CODE DOES NOT WORK YET AND HAS NOT BEEN TESTED!!!  
   *** DEFINITELY ALPHA-CODE ONLY!!!  Not to be used in any
   *** production environment!!!


Installing:

The usual incantations for installing CPAN-ready Perl modules
apply to this one:
   perl Makfile.pl
   make
   make test
   make install

(Well, except that we haven't defined any tests yet so make test
won't succeed :) - but that's the general idea).


Using this module:

Check out the pod documentation for full instructions.  There are
several examples of the module in use in the:
   examples/
directory of this tarball.  Or there will be eventually!!!


Contacting me:  
   Using email via <rb@tertius.net.au> is generally best, or I'm
   active on the speech dispacher ezmlm list
   speechd@freebsoft.org - just use the usual subscription stuff
   for ezmlm lists.  Full subscription instructions are on the
   website mentioned above.


ObLegalStuff:
   Copyright (c) 2003 by Ricky Buchanan. All rights reserved.
   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.