NAME

       multispeech - Multilingual speech server

SYNOPSIS

       multispeech [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Multispeech  was  primarily designed as a multilingual speech server for emacspeak, but it
       can be useful in some other circumstances as well, when multilingual  speech  feedback  is
       needed.   Multispeech  produces  audible  speech, sounds and tone signals according to the
       commands passed by it's client. It utilizes  third  party  speech  synthesis  software  to
       perform actual TTS transformation.

       All  aspects  of  multispeech  behaviour  are  highly customizable via configuration files
       /etc/multispeech.conf and ~/.multispeechrc.  See  the  multispeech.conf(5)  man  page  for
       syntax  information. The user settings provided by ~/.multispeechrc always take precedence
       over the system-wide ones from /etc/multispeech.conf. And all these settings in  turn  can
       be  overridden  by  an  extra  configuration  file  specified  via  the command line. Some
       configuration options are mandatory, so at least one of these files must exist.

       In case of errors or other important situations multispeech sends messages to syslog using
       facility user.

OPTIONS

       Multispeech accepts the following options:

       -c, --config file
              Read configuration from specified file.

       -v, --verbose
              Print  diagnostic  messages  on  stderr.  All  diagnostic  is logged via syslog and
              nothing is output on stderr or stdout by default.

       -d, --debug
              Allow some extra diagnostic info to be logged.

       -l, --list-devices
              Print list of all available audio output devices and exit.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options and exit.

       -V, --version
              Show program version and exit.

FILES

       /etc/multispeech.conf
              provides system-wide configuration.

       ~/.multispeechrc
              provides user configuration.

SEE ALSO

       espeak(1), freephone(1), mbrola(1), multispeech.conf(5), ru_tts(1), syslog.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>.

                                         January 6, 2009                           MULTISPEECH(1)