-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >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 > > - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (1% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQNDWfDVdG8M9x9tGAQKwQgP+IYJwJIR/blkQDz/yAwQb0MCz1+vIeBPj LGojNX5pYcmkYTE9JOwQXTkLJ/zkE7CMrPMnV5NfTRx8PZO1JlOtSmiWhH2fZUvy fWfuIjhoBcO3Yd/0N0P6FUwPSgU6yjMLtzUNwjG6hdu9aiMyi7liCQvkEfpH4eaD KErhXzoz9nM= =pdE+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----