---
name: "talkwith"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "speakup-utils"
version: "3.1.6-7"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/talkwith"
---

# talkwith(1)

script to easily switch speakup speech synthesizer

## NAME

talkwith - script to easily switch speakup speech synthesizer

## SYNOPSIS

**talkwith** *synth* *daemon* \[options ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**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.

## AUTHOR

Charles Hallenbeck, chuckh@.ftml.net

This manual page was written by Samuel Thibault \<samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org\>, It is distributed under the GPLv2 or any other version.