SPD-CONF(1)

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version 0.12.1 · 11 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 SPD-CONF(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to spd-conf — she lives in section 1 of the manual (User Commands), and she is literally your new favorite person for setting up Speech Dispatcher and figuring out why it's being dramatic. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

spd-conf — configure Speech Dispatcher and diagnose problems 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically here's how you summon her:

usage: spd-conf [-h] [-u] [-c] [-C] [-d] [-s] [--test-festival]

       [--test-espeak] [--test-alsa] [--test-pulse] [-e] [-n] [-D]
       [--version]

A simple tool for basic configuration of Speech Dispatcher and problem diagnostics 🦋

🎀 options: 🎀

  • -h, --help — shows this help message and dips. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨
  • -u, --create-user-conf — makes a Speech Dispatcher config for the given user 💖
  • -c, --config-basic-settings-user — tunes up the basic settings inside your user configuration 🫶
  • -C, --config-basic-settings-system — same energy but for the system-wide configuration 👑
  • -d, --diagnostics — diagnoses what's actually wrong with your current setup 🔍
  • -s, --test-spd-say — tests the connection to Speech Dispatcher using spd-say 😭
  • --test-festival — tests whether Festival works as a server 🌈
  • --test-espeak — tests whether Espeak works as a standalone binary ⭐
  • --test-alsa — tests ALSA audio output 🔊
  • --test-pulse — tests Pulse Audio output 💜
  • -e, --espeak — uses espeak to synthesize messages 🗣️
  • -n, --dont-ask — no questions asked, she just uses default values every single time 🙈
  • -D, --debug — debugs a problem and generates a report 📝
  • --version — prints version and copyright info 🧚

Copyright © 2002-2012 Brailcom, o.p.s.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Please see COPYING for more details. 📜

no cap, that's literally the whole page bestie. go configure something iconic 💅✨

and that's a wrap, fr fr — this was spd-conf 0.12.1, dated June 2026, and she ate. periodt 🎀💖

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