talking-clock is a highly configurable clock written in bash with soundpack and voice options.
talking-clock can chime and/or announce the time when called usually by cron.
This is free and open soruce software.
Key Features
- Chime every hour, quarter, hour, or half hour.
- Option to disable chimes.
- Can modify cron for you.
- Choose the voice. By default, the program uses eSpeak for the voice options. It can also use cepstral, Festival, gama_tts, rhvoice-(voicename), sam, and speech-dispatcher. There’s also a custom option.
Website: git.stormux.org/storm/talking-clock
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Developer: Storm Dragon
License: WTFPL
talking-clock is written in Bash. Learn Bash with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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