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+
+README for PD external distribution 'pd-flite'
+
+Last updated for version 0.01
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+The 'pd-flite' distribution contains a single PD external ("flite"),
+which provides a high-level text-to-speech interface for English based on
+the 'libflite' library by Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo.
+
+Currently tested only under linux.
+
+
+=head1 REQUIREMENTS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * libflite >= v1.1
+
+The 'libflite' library by Alan W Black and Keven A. Lenzo
+is required to build the PD 'flite' external.
+It is available from http://cmuflite.org.
+
+You may want to apply the patch 'libflite-noaudio.patch'
+which comes with this distribution to the 'libflite'
+sources before compiling them (the '--with-audio=none'
+configure flag did not work for me on its own).
+
+=back
+
+
+=head1 INSTALLATION
+
+First, build and install the libflite distribution.
+
+Then, issue the following commands to the shell:
+
+   cd PACKAGENAME-X.YY  (or wherever you extracted this distribution)
+   ./configure
+   make
+   make install
+
+
+=head1 BUILD OPTIONS
+
+The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * --with-flite-dir=DIR
+
+Specify the base directory of the libflite distribution.
+
+=item * --with-pd-dir=DIR
+
+Specify PD base directory.
+
+=item * --enable-debug , --disable-debug
+
+Whether to enable verbose debugging messages.
+Default=no.
+
+=back
+
+See the output of './configure --help' for more options.
+
+
+=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+PD by Miller Puckette and others.
+
+Flite run-time speech synthesis library by Alan W Black
+and Kevin A. Lenzo.
+
+Ideas, black magic, and other nuggets of information drawn
+from code by Guenter Geiger, Larry Troxler, and iohannes m zmoelnig.
+
+=head1 KNOWN BUGS
+
+It gobbles memory, and also processor time on synthesis operations.
+
+No support for alternative voices or lexica, and no
+mid- or low-level interface to the libflite functions.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE<gt>