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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    I like that. I wish I had a camcorder....

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    You can also use espeak or festival to synthetize voice.

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    heard of espeak but what's festival?

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    festival "Hello"
    makes your computer say 'hello'.

    Would do this but I already have an huge reputation as a nerd and it could get annoying in lectures

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    ...

    Code:
    niko@home:~$ festival "hello"
    
    WARNING
    No default voice found in ("/usr/share/festival/voices/")
    either no voices unpacked or voice-path is wrong
    Scheme interpreter will work, but there is no voice to speak with.
    WARNING
    
    SIOD ERROR: could not open file hello
    niko@home:~$

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    It works on lid close for me, but not open. I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux in general, but not to programming, so is there a way for me to see what value is returned when lid state is open? More curiosity than anything. Thanks for the idea though. I found all kinds of files in that directory to play with.

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    Just read the contents of the file "/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state":
    Code:
    cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
    I don't know why it doesn't work on lid open for you though. :/

    @nikoPSK and simplyw00x:
    Code:
    espeak "hello"
    works, but for festival, the syntax is different:
    From the man page:
    --tts Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default)
    So you can use:
    Code:
    echo "hello" | festival --tts
    or:
    Code:
    festival --tts speak.txt
    where "speak.txt" is a text file containing the text you wish to hear. (very practical )

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    Quote Originally Posted by KIAaze View Post
    Just read the contents of the file "/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state":
    Code:
    cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
    I don't know why it doesn't work on lid open for you though. :/
    The state seems to show correctly. I have seen posts throughout the forum where laptop lid detection for suspend/hibernate doesn't always work for certain laptops. Mine probably doesn't throw the event (is that what it's called in Linuxspeak?) when the lid opens for some reason, or I need to delay the sound from playing long enough for the screen to re-illuminate. Something to play with in my spare time. The close by itself is still fun. I let my coworker shut the lid. When the computer asked him "Hey! Who turned out the lights?", he was quite startled. There is also fun to be had with power.sh...

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    does anyone know how i can make this work when i plug a usb device in?

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    Re: How to make your laptop play sounds on lid open/close :)

    HEY!
    I just got some voices from Red Alert 2 to use as my system sounds! It's so cool!
    When I close the lid, I hear Sophia saying "On hold", and when I open it, a conscript says: "Good to see you, Sir. What are our orders?". As I was with this, I also put the "Low power" message for when my laptop's battery gets to 10%.
    I love it! Thanks for the idea!

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