talkwith(1)

talkwith1

Script to easily switch speakup speech synthesizer

Usage

talkwith synth daemon [options ...]

Overview

talkwith is a script which makes switching speech synthesizers in speakup very simple.

The options are as follows:

synth - any synthesizer supported by speakup

daemon - for the 'soft' synthesizer, this should be either spd for speechd-up, or espeakup to run espeakup. For the other synthesizers, this is ignored.

options - for a software synthesizer, the rest of the command line is passed on to the daemon; otherwise it is ignored.

Talkwith does not install or remove modules, so make sure any required driver modules are installed or built into the kernel before running talkwith.

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–Arch

Author

Charles Hallenbeck, [email protected]

This manual page was written by Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>, It is distributed under the GPLv2 or any other version.

From speakup-utils 3.1.6-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.