From 2b96dd2a026bb2220071699fc51cdf11b9412d82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Hubbs Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:02:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] updated man page This commit re-words the description of espeakup in the man page. --- espeakup.8 | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/espeakup.8 b/espeakup.8 index 18e3886..6002e8c 100644 --- a/espeakup.8 +++ b/espeakup.8 @@ -30,12 +30,17 @@ output version information and exit. .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