TALK (1)                         LOCAL                          TALK (1)




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.  

















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