multispeech - Multilingual speech server
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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.
Files
/etc/multispeech.conf
provides system-wide configuration.
~/.multispeechrc
provides user configuration.
Name
multispeech - Multilingual speech server
Options
Multispeech accepts the following options:
-c,--configfile
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.
See Also
espeak(1),freephone(1),mbrola(1),multispeech.conf(5),ru_tts(1),syslog.conf(5).
Synopsis
multispeech [options]
