Unlicensed project: PicoSpeaker

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Kyle

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Sep 3, 2011, 4:00:10 PM9/3/11
to The Unlicense
I am proud to announce the availability of PicoSpeaker
http://picospeaker.tk
as unlicensed code. Furthermore, the website itself has been dedicated
to the public domain and includes a link in the footer to download the
complete website source code.

PicoSpeaker is a control interface to the SVox Pico speech synthesis
engine written in Python. SVox Pico is the voice of Android phones,
but the code has been ported to Linux and Windows. PicoSpeaker is
designed to run on Linux or any other Unix-like OS that has access to
Sox and the pico2wave utility available with the SVox Pico
distribution. It provides volume, rate and pitch controls that are not
available in the sample command-line pico2wave utility and can speak
directly through the computer's sound device or save to a file. I
currently use this along with a Speech-dispatcher configuration file
to allow my computer to speak to me using this very nice voice and the
Orca screen reader.

As I am a firm believer in freedom of expression, and as I feel that
the best way to allow anyone the true freedom to use my work for any
purpose without restriction is to release it into the public domain, I
would very much appreciate a listing for PicoSpeaker on the
unlicense.org website in the Unlicensed Free Software section. Thanks
very much for the hard work and great contribution to the public
domain, and I hope that many more people learn of its benefits, both
for software and for many other works.
~Kyle
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