On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan wrote
It's a bit of overkill, but Misterhouse will do that (and much more). It will respond to voice commands ("Mister House, what time is it?"), read your weather station, program your VCR, turn your lights on and off, etc. It is completely customizable and configurable. It's all written in perl, so it's fairly accessible. If all you want is the time announced, it probably wouldn't be too hard to cut that part of the code out and recast it as a stand-alone perl script. Actually, If I were doing it from scratch, I'd just activate the voice synthesis software in a script from a cron job. That would be *real* easy. If you have a set of wav's, try cat wavefile > /dev/audio and see if it plays. If so, then it just got real simple. If not, then there must be a way to reformat wav files into an audio file Linux would love. If you're interested, I have a piece of perl code at work I wrote 10 years ago that say "stop typing" every 15 minutes (if I'm typing). It just cat's an audio file into the audio device. This could be easy.
Hmm... I just tried a wave file and it worked! cat ./Office51/config/alarm.wav > /dev/audio gave me an alarm...
Very interesting. Thank you! I am going to experiment with this! [Note: if anyone is interested in looking at Misterhouse, it is on freshmeat.] *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************