.Dd July 13, 2017
.Dt com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd
.Nd Centralized text-to-speech process for generating speech output. 
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm 
is a user or system launch daemon that handles multiple text-to-speech requests from clients. The process loads synthesizer bundles from /System/Library/Speech/Synthesizers/ or /Library/Speech/Synthesizers/, in addition to voices from /System/Library/Speech/Voices/, /Library/Speech/Voices/ and ~/Library/Speech/Voices/.
.Nm
This daemon supports the public Carbon and Cocoa (NSSpeechSynthesizer) APIs. Major Apple clients include VoiceOver, Siri and various built-in speech features.