OT: saytime program

[John Heim]

I can provide some sound files.  The voice is not the greatest.  Plus, there 
is no "eleven" or "twelve" file, which  would be a problem for a saytime 
program. I got these files off a CD of public domain images and sound files. 
So if you want them, see
http://personalpages.tds.net/~johnheim/sounds/clock/

I don't actually have a saytime program but what I do with these files is 
set up cron jobs to remind me of things. For instance, I have to leave by 
5:10 or I'll miss my bus. So I have a cron job for 5:08 PM that plays 
05.wav, O.wav, and 08.wav.  So at 5:08 PM, my linux box says "five oh 
eight".

Of course, it doesn't work if I'm not in my office. :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Smith" <bdsmith at oralux.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: OT: saytime program


> What about this?  Why don't you make your own files.  You can make
> them yourself, or have someone who has a voice you really like, make
> them for you.
>
> All you need to do to make the files is use either the sox rec command
> or arocord, whichever gives you the best results.  When the files are
> made, you can simply do this, and I will be glad to help you find the
> logic to parse the results.
>
> Write a program or some kind of script that can do all of these:
>
> First of all, call the date command.  This can be done in a shell
> command with the exec "date" command or whatever it is, I would have
> to play around for acouple of minutes to find out the exact command
> structure.  This would have to go into a variable which would be
> parsed.
>
> The parsing logic is relatively simple, We can easily see, when we
> use the date command, how many characters are used for each part of
> the results.  So the program would then have to:
>
> look through the string for the first, second, third, etc parts of the
> results of the date command.  Then all we would have to do is this:
>
> decide which files to play.  We can do this by reading what the
> results of our new parsed data variables tell us.  You can have the
> program do all of this, if you want.
>
> If you don't like the standard military time read-outs of date, the
> program can simply subtract 12 from each hour starting at 1300 hours
> or 1:00 PM, and the files could say the time in 12-hour format.
>
> That's all a talking clock, talking digital watch, or any other
> talking time-telling device does.  With all this, use the sox play
> command or the aplay command, each of which will handle mp3 files, and
> you are good to go.  You have your own saytime program.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Doug Smith: C.S.F.C.
> Computer Scientist For CHRIST
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