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-
- NAME
- talk - speak text from the command line or a file
-
- SYNOPSIS
- talk [ -v ] [ - ] [ -f file ] [ string... ]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Talk uses speak.tos to speak text from the command line. Text
- files may also be spoken though the results may be somewhat
- unpredictable unless the file is written as it would be spoken
- (i.e. without much punctuation, special marks, headings, and
- phonetically).
-
- The -v option sets verbose mode and must be the first argument
- if present. In verbose mode, all spoken text is echoed to
- stdout. Since talk does some limited filtering of the input
- data, it can be useful to collect the interpreted text.
-
- Any number of files can be read via the -f option. However you
- must specify a file name for each occurance of -f.
-
- A single - means read from stdin (at that position in the file
- list. You must include the - to read stdin. No arguments will
- cause talk to exit.
-
- Any remaining arguments on the command lines are concatenated
- into a single line (hence single sentence) and "spoken" after
- any files or stdin is read.
-
- Talk tries to find speak.tos by first looking for it in the
- current directory, then via the environment variable SPEAK
- (which must contain the full path, name, and extension), and
- finally by searching the PATH for "speak.tos". If it fails, it
- quits.
-
- AUTHOR
- Developed in Alcyon, then ported to GNU C by Bill Rosenkranz
- (rosenkra@convex.com). I got the details from somewhere, but I
- don't recall where at this point.
-
-