OT: saytime program

[Steve Holmes]

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'.
> 
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> 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
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> > There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian?
> > Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.
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> > Thanks,
> > Lorenzo
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