NAME

speech-dispatcher - speech synthesis daemon

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Speech Dispatcher -- Common interface for Speech Synthesis (GNU GPL)

OPTIONS

-d, --run-daemon

Run as a daemon

-s, --run-single

Run as single application

-a, --spawn

Start only if autospawn is not disabled

-l, --log-level

Set log level (between 1 and 5)

-L, --log-dir

Set path to logging

-c, --communication-method

Communication method to use ('unix_socket' or 'inet_socket')

-S, --socket-path

Socket path to use for 'unix_socket' method (filesystem path or 'default')

-p, --port

Specify a port number for 'inet_socket' method

-t, --timeout

Set time in seconds for the server to wait before it shuts down, if it has no clients connected. Setting to 0 disables such shutdown

-P, --pid-file

Set path to pid file

-C, --config-dir

Set path to configuration

-m, --module-dir

Set path to modules

-v, --version

Report 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

Please report bugs to speechd-discuss@nongnu.org

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.

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.