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NAME

       espeakup — connect Speakup to the ESpeak TTS engine

SYNOPSIS

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

OPTIONS

       -P path, --pid-path=path
              Set the full path for the pid file espeakup uses when in daemon mode.

       -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>.