espeakup(8) [debian man page]

ESPEAKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       ESPEAKUP(8)

NAME

       espeakup -- connect Speakup to the ESpeak TTS engine

SYNOPSIS

       espeakup [ --default-voice=voicename ] [ --debug ] [ --help ] [ --version ]

OPTIONS

       -V voicename, --default-voice=voicename
	      Set the espeak voice to be used by default.

       -d, --debug
	      run in the foreground, rather than becoming a daemon process.

       -h, --help
	      display a brief help message and exit.

       -v, --version
	      output version information and exit.

DESCRIPTION

       Espeakup  bridges  the  gap between two tools: the Speakup screen review system and the ESppeak text-to-speech engine.  Each of these tools
       performs a well-defined task.  Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader for the Linux console.  It extracts and processes the text  that	is
       displayed  on  the  foreground  virtual console.  It supports several hardware based speech synthesizers directly.  However, since it is in
       kernel space, it cannot support a software speech synthesizer directly since these are in user space.  ESpeak is a popular software  speech
       synthesizer.   It  is  small, light weight, very responsive, and supports multiple languages.  Espeakup is a connector which will read text
       sent to it by speakup and forward it to ESpeak.	This allows Speakup to use ESpeak as its speech synthesizer.

       Espeakup is a daemon.  Typically, it is started at boot time, and it terminates when the system	is  halted  or	rebooted.   It	should	be
       started by the system's init scripts.  This process varies among Linux distributions, but the details are usually managed by the person who
       packaged Espeakup for your distribution.  From the perspective of an average user, Espeakup's operation is invisible.

BUGS

       Espeakup is still classified as alpha software.	Bugs are periodically found and fixed.	If you find a bug, please  do  report  it  to  the
       author.	   You	  might    also    consider    mentioning    it   on   the   mailing   list   for   the   Speakup   screenreader.    Visit
       http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup to learn more about the mailing list.

SEE ALSO

       For more information about Speakup, visit its homepage: http://linux-speakup.org.  ESpeak's home page is http://espeak.sourceforge.net.

AUTHOR

       William Hubbs is the author and maintainer of Espeakup.	He may be reached via the email address <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>.	This  manual  page
       was written by Chris Brannon, and his email address is <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>.

0.60								    5 Nov 2008							       ESPEAKUP(8)

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SPD-SAY(1)							   User Commands							SPD-SAY(1)

NAME

       spd-say - send text-to-speech output request to speech-dispatcher

SYNOPSIS

       spd-say [options] "some text"

DESCRIPTION

       spd-say	sends text-to-speech output request to speech-dispatcher process which handles it and ideally outputs the result to the audio sys-
       tem.

OPTIONS

       -r, --rate
	      Set the rate of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0)

       -p, --pitch
	      Set the pitch of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0)

       -i, --volume
	      Set the volume (intensity) of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0)

       -o, --output-module
	      Set the output module

       -l, --language
	      Set the language (iso code)

       -t, --voice-type
	      Set the preferred voice type (male1, male2, male3, female1, female2, female3, child_male, child_female)

       -m, --punctuation-mode
	      Set the punctuation mode (none, some, all)

       -s, --spelling
	      Spell the message

       -x, --ssml
	      Set SSML mode on (default: off)

       -e, --pipe-mode
	      Pipe from stdin to stdout plus Speech Dispatcher

       -P, --priority
	      Set priority of the message (important, message, text, notification, progress; default: text)

       -N, --application-name
	      Set the application name used to establish the connection to specified string value (default: spd-say)

       -n, --connection-name
	      Set the connection name used to establish the connection to specified string value (default: main)

       -w, --wait
	      Wait till the message is spoken or discarded

       -S, --stop
	      Stop speaking the message being spoken in Speech Dispatcher

       -C, --cancel
	      Cancel all messages in Speech Dispatcher

       -v, --version
	      Print version and copyright info

       -h, --help
	      Print this info

ENVIRONMENT

       SPEECHD_ADDRESS
	      specifies TCP endpoint where speech-dispatcher is listening and to which spd-say should connect.	Has  form  of  <method>:<address>,
	      where  <method> is one of unix_socket and inet_socket.  The <address> is either path to Unix domain socket if method is unix_socket,
	      of IP address if method is inet_socket.

SEE ALSO

       speech-dispatcher(1)

       The full documentation for spd-say is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and spd-say programs	are  properly  installed  at  your
       site, the command

	      info spd-say

       should give you access to the complete manual.

spd-say 0.7.1							    March 2011								SPD-SAY(1)

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