Description:

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

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

This package is provided because it is needed by kttsd; however, the Ark
team believes it is a bad choice to use because of the glib dependency.
The package is therefore deprecated.