2. Basic Terminology

• Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol or SSIP is the device-independent protocol described in this document through which client application can send their requests for speech synthesis to the Speech Server.
• Speech Server is the server application that implements Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol, as described in this document, and provides an interface for client applications.
• Client or client application is every application that connects to Speech Server and talks to it through the Speech Synthesis Interface Protocol. In other words, this is the application that "wants to speak".
• Message is a chunk of text that a client sends to Speech Server to request saying something or play some sound.
• To cancel a message means to stop saying it and/or remove it from the queue of messages waiting to be said. However, it is not removed from the history, where it was stored after being received by Speech Server.

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