Speaking of which... never give your friend who's aspiring to learn Linux command-line the commands for (1) raising the volume to 100% and (2) using flite. Slackware has no "audio" group--just one of many reasons why I don't use it anymore--and he had logged in while I was listening to BBC World Service. Long story short, he raised the volume to 100% and woke my parents. Explaining that someone else was, in fact, logged into my machine was interesting. On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:11:07PM -0600, John Heim wrote: > Yeah, I have a line in my crontab like this: > > 0 * * * * /bin/date +"\%l \%P" | /usr/local/bin/say -fi /dev/stdin > > Note that there is no %M in the date format string so every hour it just > says "2 P M" or whatever. IMO, this is a better approach than running > another daemon just to say the date once an hour. > > I deliberately did not have it stop saying the time at some reasonable hour > like 9 PM. This is for the benefit of the cleaning staff. :-) > > One last note... I have a linux box at home that i often access from my > office. I've played sounds just to see if I get an error message. So far, no > complaints from my wife about strange noises coming from my home office. I > was thinking of playing a practical joke this way though. "Hey hotstuff, how > about coming over here and tickling my keyboard." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:38 PM > Subject: Re: OT: saytime program > > > > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
