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	Multispeech - Multilingual speech server

Multispeech was primarily designed as a multilingual speech server
for Emacspeak, but it can be useful in some other circumstances
as well, when multilingual speech feedback is needed.
For instance, it can serve as a backend module for Speech Dispatcher.
Multispeech produces audible speech, sounds and tone signals
according to the commands passed by client. It utilizes third party
speech synthesis software to perform actual TTS transformation.
See comments in the sample configuration file and corresponding
manual pages for further details.

Following additional libraries are necessary to compile the program:
Sndfile, PortAudio19 with C++ support, SoundTouch, Bobcat
and the Boost C++ library including following items:
libboost-thread, libboost-regex, libboost-filesystem,
libboost-iostreams, libboost-locale and libboost-program-options.
See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.


  Copyright (C) 2008 Igor B. Poretsky

  Multispeech is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Comments are welcome.

	- Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>