[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

[Simon Faulkner]

use festival to read the time to you...

try this in your crontab...

0-46/15 9-5 * * 1-5 /bin/date +%H:%M | /usr/bin/festival --tts

Gets on yout t**s after about 1 hour ;-)

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of David Damerell
Sent: 09 June 2003 16:02
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] How to schedule a sound


On Monday, 9 Jun 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:
>I need to set my crontab to create an audible alert every 20mins. to remind
>me to do a neck & shoulder exercise. Can't find any info on generating a
>system 'beep'. Any ideas?

If you are running X, try the extant xwrits package? It's pretty
useful for this kind of thing.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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