talking clock for ubuntu?

[asnd16]

has anyone been able to find a talking clock for ubuntu? Like talking as in speaking on every hour. . ?

[Onyros]

has anyone been able to find a talking clock for ubuntu? Like talking as in speaking on every hour. . ?

Hahaha, that would be... errm... actually, I'd be afraid of throwing my laptop against the wall.

I hate time.

[tennisplaya05]

well, here's what i could find:
http://www.jumpstation.co.uk/scripts/talkingclock/

It seems to utilize alsa and bash, so i'd assume it should work in ubuntu.
all you need now are the wav files of the numbers themselves. I guess you could download those from somewhere. Or if you have a nice microphone, you could do them yourself, or find someone with a sexy voice to record them for you

[reclusivemonkey]

well, here's what i could find:
http://www.jumpstation.co.uk/scripts/talkingclock/

It seems to utilize alsa and bash, so i'd assume it should work in ubuntu.
all you need now are the wav files of the numbers themselves. I guess you could download those from somewhere. Or if you have a nice microphone, you could do them yourself, or find someone with a sexy voice to record them for you

There's a much easier way. Just install festival, and use the script I've attached (save it as clock.sh, make it executable). Run it via cron at whatever frequency you require.

[init1]

There is something in the repos called saytime

sudo apt-get install saytime
watch -n 360 saytime

[bicchi]

I really like the idea of doing this from a cron job that runs on the hour.
I also noticed that if I am playing music in the background festival does not work.
A workaround is to use the aoss command before festival. You might need to install: alsa-oss

echo "Its" `date "+%l oclock"` | aoss festival --tts

[ways]

my script for this, partly inspired by posts above

#!/bin/bash
#
# call out the hour. run in crontab

HOUR=`date "+%k"`
FIRST=8
LAST=18
#SPEAK="espeak"
SPEAK="aoss espeak" #for multiple access to soundcard

#shh! its night time
[ $HOUR -lt $FIRST ] || [ $HOUR -gt $LAST ] && exit 1

#english
echo "Its $HOUR oclock" | $SPEAK

[Tomosaur]

Simple command will do it:

date +"%A, %B %e %Y, %l:%M %p" | espeak

I have it bound to an alias called 'speaktime' in my ~/.bashrc file:

alias speaktime='date +"%A, %B %e %Y, %l:%M %p" | espeak'

[qwill]

flite_time does the job too...

[snova]

There was an entry to the IOCCC that did this.