---
name: "kmouth"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kmouth"
version: "26.08.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kmouth"
---

# kmouth(1)

A type-and-say front end for speech synthesizers

## NAME

kmouth - A type-and-say front end for speech synthesizers

## SYNOPSIS

**kmouth** \[*filename*\]

## DESCRIPTION

KMouth is an application that enables persons that cannot speak to let their computers speak. It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken.

Note that KMouth does not include speech synthesizer. Instead it requires a speech synthesizer installed in the system.

## OPTIONS

*filename*

The history file to open.

## SEE ALSO

[espeak(1)](/espeak/1.md), [festival(1)](/festival/1.md), [mbrola(1)](/mbrola/1.md), freetts(1)

More detailed user documentation is available from **help:/kmouth** (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run **khelpcenter** *help:/kmouth*).

There is also further information available at the **KDE Accessibility project web site**\[1\].

## AUTHORS

KMouth was written by Gunnar Schmi Dt \<kmouth@schmi-dt.de\>.

## AUTHOR

**Lauri Watts** \<lauri@kde.org\>

KMouth man page.

## NOTES

- 1\.

  KDE Accessibility project web site

  https://community.kde.org/Accessibility