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.SH DESCRIPTION
Espeakup bridges the gap between two tools: the Speakup screen review
system and the ESppeak text-to-speech engine. Each of these tools
performs a well-defined task. Speakup is a kernel-based screenreader
performs a well-defined task. Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader
for the Linux console. It extracts and processes the text that is
displayed on the foreground virtual console, but it does not know how
to convert that text to synthesized speech. ESpeak transforms text into
artificial speech, but it knows nothing about the Linux console.
Enter Espeakup. Espeakup reads text from Speakup and transmits it to ESpeak.
displayed on the foreground virtual console. It supports several
hardware based speech synthesizers directly. However, since it is in
kernel space, it cannot support a software speech synthesizer directly
since these are in user space.
ESpeak is a popular software speech synthesizer. It is small, light
weight, very responsive, and supports multiple languages.
Espeakup is a connector which will read text sent to it by speakup and
forward it to ESpeak. This allows Speakup to use ESpeak as its speech
synthesizer.
.PP
Espeakup is a daemon. Typically, it is started at boot time, and it terminates
when the system is halted or rebooted. It should be started by the