TALKWITH(1)

✨ TALKWITH(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the talkwith page from User Commands 💖 this is the little script that lets you swap your speakup speech synthesizer without losing your whole entire mind, and honestly? iconic.

🎀 NAME 🎀

talkwith — a script to easily switch speakup speech synthesizer 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

talkwith synth daemon [options ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: talkwith is a script which makes switching speech synthesizers in speakup very simple. like, that's the whole point. no cap. 🫶

The options are as follows:

• synth — any synthesizer supported by speakup ✨
• daemon — for the 'soft' synthesizer, this should be either spd for speechd-up, or espeakup to run espeakup. For the other synthesizers, this is ignored. 🙈
• options — for a software synthesizer, the rest of the command line is passed on to the daemon; otherwise it is ignored. 👑

lowkey important bestie: talkwith does not install or remove modules, so make sure any required driver modules are installed or built into the kernel before running talkwith. fr fr, do this first or it's giving sad. 😭

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Charles Hallenbeck, chuckh@.ftml.net 🌈

This manual page was written by Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>, It is distributed under the GPLv2 or any other version. 📜

and that's the whole thing bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this was Speakup Tools, dated March 2009 — vintage but still serving, mwah 🎀🦋💖