[smc-discuss] Dhvani 0.94 Released

[Santhosh Thottingal]

Dhvani 0.94 Released
A new version of <a href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net">Dhvani</a>
-The Indian Language Text to Speech System is available now.  The new
version comes with the following improvements/features
* Support for 11 languages- Hindi, Panjabi, Gujarati, Marati, Bengali,
Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil , Malayalam and Pashto(Afganistan)
* Pitch and Tempo modification for speech
* <a href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/doc/outputfile-format.html">Direct
ogg-vorbis speech output and optional wav output format
* <a href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/doc/apis.html">C/C++ APIs</a>
 for applications to use dhvani as a shared library.
* <a href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/doc/screenreader.html">Generic
driver for Speech-dispatcher</a> and Integration to Orca through
speech dispatcher
* Python binding through speech dispatcher
* Improved <a href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/doc/langauge-detection.html">language
detection algorithm</a>

Dhvani documentation is available <a
href="http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/doc">here</a>.

Binary packages and source code are available <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhvani">here</a>

<b>Thanks</b>
* Rahul Bhalerao for Marathi module and patches
* Zabeehkhan for Pashto Module
* Nirupama, CDAC Chennai and CDAC Noida people for testing and reporting bugs
* NRCFOSS Chennai, Krishnakanth Mane and many others  for feedbacks
* <a href="http://www.amidasimputer.com/">Amida Simputer</a> team for
patches on Telugu module especially the Telugu number reading logic
* Debayan and Roshan for testing and informing problems

There was  good amount of code change in this version. Still there are
many improvements to do in language modules and synthesizer. Some of
the language modules requires developers who speak that language.
Syntheziser got some improvements and require some amount of research
to make the speech more natural. So your feedbacks, suggestions, bug
reports and patches are valuable.

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