debian man page for espeakup

ESPEAKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       ESPEAKUP(8)

NAME
       espeakup -- connect Speakup to the ESpeak TTS engine

SYNOPSIS
       espeakup [ --default-voice=voicename ] [ --debug ] [ --help ] [ --version ]

OPTIONS
       -V voicename, --default-voice=voicename
	      Set the espeak voice to be used by default.

       -d, --debug
	      run in the foreground, rather than becoming a daemon process.

       -h, --help
	      display a brief help message and exit.

       -v, --version
	      output version information and exit.

DESCRIPTION
       Espeakup  bridges  the  gap between two tools: the Speakup screen review system and the ESppeak text-to-speech engine.  Each of these tools
       performs a well-defined task.  Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader for the Linux console.  It extracts and processes the text  that	is
       displayed  on  the  foreground  virtual console.  It supports several hardware based speech synthesizers directly.  However, since it is in
       kernel space, it cannot support a software speech synthesizer directly since these are in user space.  ESpeak is a popular software  speech
       synthesizer.   It  is  small, light weight, very responsive, and supports multiple languages.  Espeakup is a connector which will read text
       sent to it by speakup and forward it to ESpeak.	This allows Speakup to use ESpeak as its speech synthesizer.

       Espeakup is a daemon.  Typically, it is started at boot time, and it terminates when the system	is  halted  or	rebooted.   It	should	be
       started by the system's init scripts.  This process varies among Linux distributions, but the details are usually managed by the person who
       packaged Espeakup for your distribution.  From the perspective of an average user, Espeakup's operation is invisible.

BUGS
       Espeakup is still classified as alpha software.	Bugs are periodically found and fixed.	If you find a bug, please  do  report  it  to  the
       author.	   You	  might    also    consider    mentioning    it   on   the   mailing   list   for   the   Speakup   screenreader.    Visit
       http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup to learn more about the mailing list.

SEE ALSO
       For more information about Speakup, visit its homepage: http://linux-speakup.org.  ESpeak's home page is http://espeak.sourceforge.net.

AUTHOR
       William Hubbs is the author and maintainer of Espeakup.	He may be reached via the email address <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>.	This  manual  page
       was written by Chris Brannon, and his email address is <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>.

0.60								    5 Nov 2008							       ESPEAKUP(8)