talking clock

[Janina Sajka]

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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