Hey thanks for the date suggestions. I've had something similar around here for a long time but it just writes to the screen and I review it. This might be fun to pipe into Cepstral Callie as she has a fine sounding voice!:) I think this saytime program Cheryl and others are talking about would automatically say the time at selected intervals if I remember correctly. If not, well, your alias/script idea could be coupled to cron and auto speak at designated intervals. So many ways to skin a cat with Linux applications. On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:35:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote: > I do this: > > alias tm='date +"\%l \%M \%P" | say -fi /dev/stdin' > > Then all you have to do is type 'tm' and it will say the current time. For > example, "ten fourty one P M". That uses the DECtalk speech engine but you > could also use espeak. > > alias tm='date +"\l \%M \%P" | speak > > Or you could have it speak through whatever synth you're using for speakup > by just saying > > date +"%l %M %P" > > For that matter, you can just say 'date'. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: OT: saytime program > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian? > > Hm. If anyone has that I would like it as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Lorenzo > > - -- > > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFF5vOeG9IpekrhBfIRAiryAJ0WGeJvEFpqbQzoiqH+Y7Glv8r9HACgruK1 > > CG9M/fg7dpLgjhnxcagb7oY= > > =2Mgp > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/
