I am not getting the command pipe to work for say and spd-say. Specifically, I want to pipe the output of fortune to spd-say, which seems more advanced than say. I tried the usual pipe construction
fortune | spd-say
Other commands do work, like
fortune | wc
Apparently, the speech dispatcher commands treat the piped input different from the ordinary arguments. I would like to fix this and understand what is going on.
Use option -e / --pipe-mode to read the text from stdin and process it. This also outputs the text to stdout.
$ fortune | spd-say -e
Don't feed the bats tonight.
Please read the info manual (info spd-say) which contains a few examples.
echo $PRE_COLLECTED_INFO_MESSAGE make sure to put that variable in double quotes like: echo "$PRE_COLLECTED_INFO_MESSAGE" especially if it potentially has newlines or punctuation in it. Otherwise some of the content may get "lost" before it makes it into spd-say. Also: if content is long, include the --wait parameter. Otherwise it might just quit in the middle of the sentence.