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I used crontab to play a different wav file every hour, and had a
simulated cuckoo clock here. There are some marvelous "Big Ben"
sounds to use too. I finally traded them all in for the
flite_time program, which I run every 15 minutes from crontab.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
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