1.3 Higher Level API

SSIP is the basic interface protocol that is being used in the communication of a client with the central Speech Server on a system. However, in many cases it may more convenient for application programmers not to use SSIP directly (having to care about open socket connections etc.) but rather use an interface wrapper written in the specific programming language they use. There is no obstacle in SSIP for this option, and in fact, this approach is highly encouraged.

This way, application programmers should finally be able to use such simple functions as speech_open(), speech_printf() and speech_set_rate() in their programs.

We believe this can make writing new speech enabled applications a lot easier and allow programmers to make more of them.

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