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talkfilters(1)

talkfilters1

Gnu talk filters

Usage

filter [--version --help]

Overview

The GNU Talkfilters are filter programs that convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect. Each program reads from standard input and writes to standard output.

Since the filters do word and substring substitution on the text they process, any word-wrap formatting of the original text will not be preserved. Use the wrap filter to word-wrap the output of a talk filter.

austro

Austrian accent (Ahhhnold)

b1ff

B1FF of USENET yore

brooklyn

Brooklyn accent

chef

Swedish Chef (from The Muppet Show)

cockney

Londoner accent

drawl

Southern drawl

dubya

George "Dubya" Bush

fudd

Elmer Fudd (from the Looney Tunes cartoons)

funetak

Thick Asian accent

jethro

Jethro from The Beverly Hillbillies

jive

1970s Jive

kraut

German accent

pansy

Effeminate male

pirate

Pirate talk

postmodern

Postmodernist talk ("Feminazi")

redneck

Country redneck

valspeak

Valley talk

warez

H4x0r code

Authors

Edward Betts, Clement Cole, John Hagerman, Brand Hilton, Adam Hudd, Ian Johnston, Daniel V. Klein, Mark Lindner, Stephen K. Mulrine, Duane Paulson, Samuel Stoddard, Matt Welsh, David Whitten, et al.

From talkfilters 2.3.8-8 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.