Andrew, On Monday 30 May 2005 01:01, Andrew Beames wrote:
On Monday 30 May 2005 01:07, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Andrew,
Alternatively, install festival and set up a filter to "tell" you who the mail is from: echo "new mail from mum" | festival --tts
No ... THANK ... _*YOU*_!!!
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By the way, I gave it a try. It's one of the poorer implementations of algorithmic text-to-speech I've heard.
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Randall Schulz
I agree the quality of the simple script I have is dubious. But its task is to notify me of emails from certain customers that require immediate attention - especially when I am working at another desk. And for that it is the perfect tool.
I have the same need, and I associate recognizable sounds with those email filters. I suppose if you had more than a few of these, it would be hard to come up with a meaningful and distinguishable set of sounds, but do you really need an audible indication of precisely which high-priority person sent you mail? You're just going to bring up the KMail main window and visually scan for the high-priority mailboxe(s) that have one or more unread messages, so you don't really need a distinctive sound for each one.
A.
Randall Schulz