spd-say: 0.8.3 Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Brailcom, o.p.s. spd-say comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

Usage: spd-say [options] "some text" Speech Dispatcher Say -- a simple client for speech synthesis (GNU GPL) -r, --rate Set the rate of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0) -p, --pitch Set the pitch of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0) -i, --volume Set the volume (intensity) of the speech (between -100 and +100, default: 0) -o, --output-module Set the output module -O, --list-output-modules Get the list of output modules -I, --sound-icon Play the sound icon -l, --language Set the language (ISO code) -t, --voice-type Set the preferred voice type (male1, male2, male3, female1, female2 female3, child_male, child_female) -L, --list-synthesis-voices Get the list of synthesis voices -y, --synthesis-voice Set the synthesis voice -m, --punctuation-mode Set the punctuation mode (none, some, all) -s, --spelling Spell the message -x, --ssml Set SSML mode on (default: off) -e, --pipe-mode Pipe from stdin to stdout plus Speech Dispatcher -P, --priority Set priority of the message (important, message, text, notification, progress;default: text) -N, --application-name Set the application name used to establish the connection to specified string value (default: spd-say) -n, --connection-name Set the connection name used to establish the connection to specified string value (default: main) -w, --wait Wait till the message is spoken or discarded -S, --stop Stop speaking the message being spoken -C, --cancel Cancel all messages -v, --version Print version and copyright info -h, --help Print this info Copyright (C) 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. Please report bugs to speechd@lists.freebsoft.org