EMACSPEAK(1)

💖 EMACSPEAK 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about emacspeak — the speech output interface to Emacs 🗣️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

emacspeak — speech output interface to Emacs

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

emacspeak [ options ] [ file... ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this script starts emacs(1) but with speech extensions turned on, and it's giving accessibility icon energy 👑

emacspeak comes with support for these speech synthesizers, no cap:

• DECtalk Express
• DECtalk MultiVoice
• software DECtalk on the DEC Alpha
• the software synthesizers eflite and espeakf

and if none of those are your vibe? separate speech servers exist to support other hardware and software synthesizers 💅

the way that it knows what to talk to: emacspeak reads the type of text to speech device and the port where it is connected from /etc/emacspeak.conf 📄

and for the runtime commands that emacspeak supplies, go check the Emacspeak-HOWTO, or consult the .info file:

info emacspeak

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -o — use the IBM ViaVoice Outloud speech server 🗣️
• -m — use multispeech(1) for speech output
• -e — use espeak(1) for speech output
• -d — use Software Dectalk(1) for speech output
• -q — do not process the startup file ~/.emacs 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

T. V. Raman, Google Incorporated <raman@users.sf.net>

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🍓 FILES 🍓

/etc/emacspeak.conf

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• emacspeakconfig(8)
• emacspeak.info
• ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/emacspeak/blinux.

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fr fr, this page is from July 17, 2008, source is EMACSPEAK(1), and it's the General Commands Manual — periodt 💜 🫶