playing sounds remotely was Re: OT: saytime program

[Garrett Klein]

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
> >>
> >>
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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.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Lorenzo
> >> > - -- 
> >> > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> >> > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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