[Gloucs] Topic for next meeting? "Cool hacky scripts"
Paul Broadhead
lug at twinmoons.clara.co.uk
Wed Oct 15 22:53:45 UTC 2008
Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Which reminds me of another hacky-script wot I also wrote, which
> pipes xclip to aspell to zenity. Add a launcher to the Gnome panel,
> it tells you whether there's any spelling mistakes in your clipboard
> text. Instant spellcheck anywhere!
Which reminds me, of my one line bash script to do text-to-speach on
your clipboard contents, linked to a panel icon, instant text-to-speech
from any application.
xsel | festival --tts
Blast, that could have a a 60 second talk.
Regards,
Paul
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