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test-speech

test-speech(1)							   User Commands						    test-speech(1)

NAME

       test-speech - a test application provided by gnome-speech

DESCRIPTION

       test-speech  is a simple test application provided by gnome-speech. It is used to verify the driver for a speech engine, e.g., freetts-syn-
       thesis-driver, is funcioning properly, in order to make sure users can activate and interact with the gnome-speech driver successfully.

       GNOME Speech aims to be a general interface to various text-to-speech engines for the GNOME desktop. It allows the simple speaking of text,
       as well as control over various speech parameters such as speech pitch, rate, and volume.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/test-speech    a test application provided by gnome-speech

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-a11y-speech	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libgnomespeech(3), attributes(5)

NOTES

       gnome-speech is written by Marc Mulcahy and Michael Meeks.

SunOS 5.11							    3 Dec 2006							    test-speech(1)

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