speech-dispatcher(1) [centos man page]
SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1) User Commands SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1) NAME
speech-dispatcher - server process managing speech requests in Speech Dispatcher SYNOPSIS
speech-dispatcher [-{d|s}] [-l {1|2|3|4|5}] [-c com_method] [-S socket_path] [-p port] | [-v] | [-h] DESCRIPTION
speech-dispatcher is a server process that is responsible for transforming requests for text-to-speech output into actual speech hearable in the speakers. It arbitrates concurrent speech requests based on message priorities, and abstracts different speech synthesizers. Client programs, like screen readers or navigation software, send speech requests to speech-dispatcher using TCP protocol (with the help of client libraries). speech-dispatcher is usually started automatically by client libraries (i.e. autospawn), so you only need to run it manually if testing/debugging, or when in other explicit need for a special setup. OPTIONS
-d, --run-daemon Run as a daemon -s, --run-single Run as single application -a, --spawn Start only if autospawn is not disabled -l, --log-level Set log level (1..5) -c, --communication-method Communication method to use (unix_socket or inet_socket) -S, --socket-path Socket path to use for 'unix_socket' method (filesystem path or 'default') -p, --port Specify a port number for 'inet_socket' method -P, --pid-file Set path to pid file -C, --config-dir Set path to configuration -v, --version Report version of this program -D, --debug Output debugging information into /tmp/.speech-dispatcher -h, --help Print this info BUGS
Please report bugs to <speechd-bugs@freebsoft.org> SEE ALSO
spd-say(1) The full documentation for speech-dispatcher is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and speech-dispatcher programs are properly installed at your site, the command info speech-dispatcher should give you access to the complete manual. speech-dispatcher 0.7.1 March 2011 SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1)
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FESTIVAL(1) General Commands Manual FESTIVAL(1) NAME
festival - a text-to-speech system. SYNOPSIS
festival [options] [file0] [file1] ... DESCRIPTION
Festival is a general purpose text-to-speech system. As well as simply rendering text as speech it can be used in an interactive command mode for testing and developing various aspects of speech synthesis technology. Festival has two major modes, command and tts (text-to-speech). When in command mode input (from file or interactively) is interpreted by the command interpreter. When in tts mode input is rendered as speech. When in command mode filenames that start with a left paranthesis are treated as literal commands and evaluated. OPTIONS
-q Load no default setup files --libdir <string> Set library directory pathname -b Run in batch mode (no interaction) --batch Run in batch mode (no interaction) --tts Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default) -i Run in interactive mode (default) --interactive Run in interactive mode (default) --pipe Run in pipe mode, reading commands from stdin, but no prompt or return values are printed (default if stdin not a tty) --language <string> Run in named language, default is english, spanish and welsh are available --server Run in server mode waiting for clients of server_port (1314) --script <ifile> Used in #! scripts, runs in batch mode on file and passes all other args to Scheme --heap <int> {1000000} Set size of Lisp heap, should not normally need to be changed from its default -v Display version number and exit --version Display version number and exit BUGS
More than you can imagine. A manual with much detail (though not complete) is available in distributed as part of the system and is also accessible at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/ Although we cannot guarantee the time required to fix bugs, we would appreciated it if they were reported to festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk AUTHOR
Alan W Black, Richard Caley and Paul Taylor (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998 University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html 6th Apr 1998 FESTIVAL(1)