The software realises a text-to-speech application using the operating systems TTS features. The text is provided via a TCP/UDP interface.
In addition, the software reports is state depending on the hosts power state, e.g. "bye-bye" when the host is goind to suspend or "alive" after it resumed to indicate the availability of the service. Therefore, <ServerRunning>1</ServerRunning> resp. <ServerRunning>0</ServerRunning> is send while 1 represents service alive and 0 indicates a shutdown / bye-bye of the service.

Using MS Windows, the program can detect resume and suspend events on its own an reports the status. This feature is not implemented for linux os.
Following a StackOverFlow thread On linux you can put the following shell script in /etc/pm/sleep.d which executes a program with arguments. You can start a program and notify your main application in some way :

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
suspend)
    #suspending to RAM
    /Path/to/Program/remotetts --byebye
    ;;
resume)
    #resume from suspend
    sleep 3
    /Path/to/Program/remotetts --alive
    ;;
esac

The software provides a simple GUI for configuration.

A notification sound can be played prior to speak the submitted text (attention getter).

The project moved from SourceForge to GitHub end of February 2024.

remotetts [argument]

*No argument*   Start with GUI

--alive   Sending *resumed* messag and exit

--byebye   Sendimng *going to suspend* message and exit.

The software takes incoming ASCII strings, starting with a trigger word.

Some special characters can be submitted using the HTML-Unicode replacement codes:

[trigger][argument]

• Qt 6.5.3 and MinGw