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>.

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