Comments on: A Linux Talking Clock

By: Tonny N

Tonny N — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:18:14 +0000

This is very good information works great

Everything is explained in details

Thank you

By: csocci

csocci — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:27:15 +0000

Excellent

By: init0

init0 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:26:16 +0000

Hey, i did something similar here : http://www.h3manth.com/content/speaking-clock-gnulinux

By: csocci

csocci — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:24 +0000

Hi Percy -

The script works by playing any wav file of your choosing. The wav file could be anything you want – an audio sample of Big Ben, whatever. You can also use espeak to give a synthesized speech version of any text you can type. All we are doing is using a cron job to schedule the playing of a wav file (chosen by passing variables returned from the BASH date command) – you can schedule it to do whatever you like.

By: Percy McManus

Percy McManus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:53:52 +0000

Hi,

Your name came up after I typed in talking clock. What if a person wanted a clock to announce something other than the time or date? Would that be easy to do? I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

Thanks,

Percy

By: Paul Richardson

Paul Richardson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:32:31 +0000

Thank you so much for the basic theme, I have modified it to suit my own needs, and I love it.
a small note, in your script you show “” around the dir/file instructions, that isn’t required on my system, other than that I added some simple clock chimes on the hour and half. It works great. Thnx again, great help.

> Sure thing! I’m glad you were able to make something with it!