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)