The flite package includes a little demo app for announcing the time. You feed it in as a variable from the command line, so you could certainly also do that in a script via your crontab. Luke Davis writes: > Announce it where? By printing it one one of the terminals? By sending > it through the sound card? What did you have in mind? > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote: > > >Hi, > >while I am talking about little programs I like is there a program for > >linux that will announce the time every hour? > >Roy > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175