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SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1)		  User Commands 	    SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1)

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 'de-
	    fault')

     -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 (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.

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.

speech-dispatcher 0.12.1	    July 2026		    SPEECH-DISPATCHER(1)

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