SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1)

💖 SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1) 💖

okay bestie so this is the manual page for speech-dispatcher, a User Commands girlie, and she is literally the speech synthesis daemon. yes, THE one. sit down, hydrate, and let's get into it 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

speech-dispatcher — speech synthesis daemon 🗣️✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

speech-dispatcher [-{d|s}] [-l {1|2|3|4|5}] [-c com_method] [-S
socket_path] [-p port] [-t timeout] | [-v] | [-h]

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Speech Dispatcher — Common interface for Speech Synthesis (GNU GPL). that's the whole vibe. it's the common interface bestie, the middle girl between you and the speech synthesis, and honestly? iconic. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d, --run-daemon — run her as a daemon 💅
• -s, --run-single — run her as a single application
• -a, --spawn — only start if autospawn is not disabled. she's not gonna barge in uninvited, periodt.
• -l, --log-level — set the log level (between 1 and 5)
• -L, --log-dir — set the path to logging
• -c, --communication-method — which communication method to use: 'unix_socket' or 'inet_socket' 🫶
• -S, --socket-path — the socket path to use for the 'unix_socket' method (either a filesystem path or 'default')
• -p, --port — specify a port number for the 'inet_socket' method
• -t, --timeout — set the time in seconds for the server to wait before she shuts down, if she has no clients connected. setting it to 0 disables that shutdown entirely. she'll wait forever. committed. 💀
• -P, --pid-file — set the path to the pid file
• -C, --config-dir — set the path to configuration
• -m, --module-dir — set the path to modules
• -v, --version — report the version of this program
• -D, --debug — output debugging information into $TMPDIR/speechd-debug if TMPDIR is exported, otherwise to /tmp/speechd-debug
• -h, --help — print this info

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💌 please report bugs to speechd-discuss@nongnu.org — she wants the feedback, no cap.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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. 📜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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. iykyk 📖✨

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs — this was speech-dispatcher 0.12.1, from June 2026, mwah 💋🦋