OT: saytime program

OT: saytime program

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi all.

In the last few weeks I had both linux machines' hard drives die. both 
are up and running again, but I had a wonderful program called 
"saytime" which I apparently did not back up and can not find on the 
Internet. I think it was a .tgz or tar.gz file with the executable and 
sound files. The only version I can now find online is very old and has 
a Makefile and won't compile--no surprise since the date on it is 1996. 
Debian has a saytime program but it's pitiful compared to the one I've 
lost; the voice was so nice and the rate was relatively clear. If 
anybody knows what I am talking about and still has this program and 
would send it to me, I would be deeply indebted to you.

Thanks.

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Re: OT: saytime program

[Gene Collins]

Hi Sheryl.  Yes I know what you are talking about, and have the program
in a bz2 file, no source, no manpage, just binary.  You'll have to untar
it as root at the slash level of your directory tree.  I'm pretty sure
it's what you are looking for.  I also had a friend of mine record new
voice files, so I have a nice femine voice for the time instead of the
male synthesized voice.  If you'd rather have that version, just let me
know.  You can let me know which you'd like, and I'll mail it to you
directly, the tar ball is only 86k for the original, or 120k for the
nicer human voice.

Gene

Re: OT: saytime program

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian?
Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Re: OT: saytime program

[John Heim]

I do this:

alias tm='date +"\%l \%M \%P" | say -fi /dev/stdin'

Then all you have to do is type 'tm' and it will say the current time. For 
example, "ten fourty one P M". That uses the DECtalk speech engine but you 
could also use espeak.

alias tm='date +"\l \%M \%P" | speak

Or you could have it speak through whatever synth you're using for speakup 
by just saying

date +"%l %M %P"

For that matter, you can just say 'date'.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@taylor.homelinux.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: OT: saytime program


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> Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
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Re: OT: saytime program

[Steve Holmes]

Hey thanks for the date suggestions.  I've had something similar around
here for a long time but it just writes to the screen and I review it.
This might be fun to pipe into Cepstral Callie as she has a fine
sounding voice!:) 

I think this saytime program Cheryl and others are talking about would
automatically say the time at selected intervals if I remember
correctly.  If not, well, your alias/script idea could be coupled to
cron and auto speak at designated intervals.  So many ways to skin a cat
with Linux applications.

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:35:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> I do this:
> 
> alias tm='date +"\%l \%M \%P" | say -fi /dev/stdin'
> 
> Then all you have to do is type 'tm' and it will say the current time. For 
> example, "ten fourty one P M". That uses the DECtalk speech engine but you 
> could also use espeak.
> 
> alias tm='date +"\l \%M \%P" | speak
> 
> Or you could have it speak through whatever synth you're using for speakup 
> by just saying
> 
> date +"%l %M %P"
> 
> For that matter, you can just say 'date'.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@taylor.homelinux.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: saytime program
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> > There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian?
> > Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lorenzo
> > - -- 
> > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
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Re: OT: saytime program

[John Heim]

Yeah, I have a line in my crontab like this:

0 * * * * /bin/date +"\%l \%P" | /usr/local/bin/say -fi /dev/stdin

Note that there is no %M in the date format string so every hour it just 
says "2 P M" or whatever.  IMO, this is a better approach than running 
another daemon just to say the date once an hour.

I deliberately did not have it stop saying the time at some reasonable hour 
like 9 PM. This is for the benefit of the cleaning staff. :-)

One last note... I have a linux box at home that i often access from my 
office. I've played sounds just to see if I get an error message. So far, no 
complaints from my wife about strange noises coming from my home office. I 
was thinking of playing a practical joke this way though. "Hey hotstuff, how 
about coming over here and tickling my keyboard."

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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: OT: saytime program


> Hey thanks for the date suggestions.  I've had something similar around
> here for a long time but it just writes to the screen and I review it.
> This might be fun to pipe into Cepstral Callie as she has a fine
> sounding voice!:)
>
> I think this saytime program Cheryl and others are talking about would
> automatically say the time at selected intervals if I remember
> correctly.  If not, well, your alias/script idea could be coupled to
> cron and auto speak at designated intervals.  So many ways to skin a cat
> with Linux applications.
>
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:35:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
>> I do this:
>>
>> alias tm='date +"\%l \%M \%P" | say -fi /dev/stdin'
>>
>> Then all you have to do is type 'tm' and it will say the current time. 
>> For
>> example, "ten fourty one P M". That uses the DECtalk speech engine but 
>> you
>> could also use espeak.
>>
>> alias tm='date +"\l \%M \%P" | speak
>>
>> Or you could have it speak through whatever synth you're using for 
>> speakup
>> by just saying
>>
>> date +"%l %M %P"
>>
>> For that matter, you can just say 'date'.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@taylor.homelinux.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: OT: saytime program
>>
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>> > There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian?
>> > Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Lorenzo
>> > - -- 
>> > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
>> > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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playing sounds remotely was Re: OT: saytime program

[Garrett Klein]

Speaking of which... never give your friend who's aspiring to learn
Linux command-line the commands for (1) raising the volume to 100% and
(2) using flite. Slackware has no "audio" group--just one of many
reasons why I don't use it anymore--and he had logged in while 	I was
listening to BBC World Service. Long story short, he raised the volume
to 100% and woke my parents. Explaining that someone else was, in fact,
logged into my machine was interesting.

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:11:07PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> Yeah, I have a line in my crontab like this:
> 
> 0 * * * * /bin/date +"\%l \%P" | /usr/local/bin/say -fi /dev/stdin
> 
> Note that there is no %M in the date format string so every hour it just 
> says "2 P M" or whatever.  IMO, this is a better approach than running 
> another daemon just to say the date once an hour.
> 
> I deliberately did not have it stop saying the time at some reasonable hour 
> like 9 PM. This is for the benefit of the cleaning staff. :-)
> 
> One last note... I have a linux box at home that i often access from my 
> office. I've played sounds just to see if I get an error message. So far, no 
> complaints from my wife about strange noises coming from my home office. I 
> was thinking of playing a practical joke this way though. "Hey hotstuff, how 
> about coming over here and tickling my keyboard."
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: saytime program
> 
> 
> > Hey thanks for the date suggestions.  I've had something similar around
> > here for a long time but it just writes to the screen and I review it.
> > This might be fun to pipe into Cepstral Callie as she has a fine
> > sounding voice!:)
> >
> > I think this saytime program Cheryl and others are talking about would
> > automatically say the time at selected intervals if I remember
> > correctly.  If not, well, your alias/script idea could be coupled to
> > cron and auto speak at designated intervals.  So many ways to skin a cat
> > with Linux applications.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:35:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> >> I do this:
> >>
> >> alias tm='date +"\%l \%M \%P" | say -fi /dev/stdin'
> >>
> >> Then all you have to do is type 'tm' and it will say the current time. 
> >> For
> >> example, "ten fourty one P M". That uses the DECtalk speech engine but 
> >> you
> >> could also use espeak.
> >>
> >> alias tm='date +"\l \%M \%P" | speak
> >>
> >> Or you could have it speak through whatever synth you're using for 
> >> speakup
> >> by just saying
> >>
> >> date +"%l %M %P"
> >>
> >> For that matter, you can just say 'date'.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@taylor.homelinux.net>
> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> >> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM
> >> Subject: Re: OT: saytime program
> >>
> >>
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> >> > There is a saytime program that sounds better than the one in Debian?
> >> > Hm.  If anyone has that I would like it as well.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Lorenzo
> >> > - -- 
> >> > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> >> > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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Re: playing sounds remotely was Re: OT: saytime program

[Doug Sutherland]

Slackware does have audio group in recent versions

Garrett Klein wrote:
Slackware has no "audio" group

Re: playing sounds remotely was Re: OT: saytime program

[Steve Holmes]

Besides, you could simply add one.  I added a devel group for
development and made that the owner of /usr/src so I could build the
kernel as a "Normal user." 

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:27:22AM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote:
> Slackware does have audio group in recent versions
> 
> Garrett Klein wrote:
> Slackware has no "audio" group
> 
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Re: OT: saytime program

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Gene,
Sorry I lost your message so have to post to the list.

Would you mind sending me both versions of your saytime program?

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Re: OT: saytime program

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks to everybody for the replies.

Gene has the program and sent it to me, for which I am extremely grateful!!1

Yes, lorenzo, it is MUcH better than the debian program!!!

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Re: OT: saytime program

[tony seth]

Hi there:  If twouldn't be too much ta ask, could ya send me that 
program too please?  Just the original would be fine... thanks much...
I thought that was only available for winblows...

Cheereo!

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Re: OT: saytime program

[Cheryl Homiak]

Gene sent me the program and it sounds good but isn't really the one i 
was looking for. The one i had used mp3 files and needed mpg123. By 
typing saytime-1.0.tar.gz in google I found an article on the cli that 
has people download that file--unfortunately the link now comes up dry. 
I suspect that it may have been removed due to the use of mpg123, just 
as I noticed in my reinstall of debian that mp3 encoding support now 
has to be done from source. anyway, I'm really mad at myself; with all 
the stuff I backed up, I don't know why that got left out. Just glad to 
at least have the program with .au files from Gene.

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Re: OT: saytime program

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Cheryl,

I use a program which came once as part of the flite package, called
flite_time. It actually sounds pretty good in spite of its family of
origin. The voice is drawn from a library of fixed utterances for
better quality. Let me know if you would like a copy. I drive mine from
a crontab to tell me the time every 15 minutes.

Chuck


On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Gene sent me the program and it sounds good but isn't really the one i 
> was looking for. The one i had used mp3 files and needed mpg123. By 
> typing saytime-1.0.tar.gz in google I found an article on the cli that 
> has people download that file--unfortunately the link now comes up dry. 
> I suspect that it may have been removed due to the use of mpg123, just 
> as I noticed in my reinstall of debian that mp3 encoding support now 
> has to be done from source. anyway, I'm really mad at myself; with all 
> the stuff I backed up, I don't know why that got left out. Just glad to 
> at least have the program with .au files from Gene.
> 
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Re: OT: saytime program

[Steve Holmes]

Hi Chuck,  Yeah, that Flite say_time command is cool.  I like that brit
accent with the terms like "half past" and "quarter to" and such.  It
gives it that sort of human element instead of just hearing numbers or
dry dates.

Cheryl, For playing MP3's or at least playing simple files like mpg123
used to do, mpg321 is an alternative or at least Slackware offers it.  I
just looked at my system though and the Slackware package is dated back
in 2003; wonder if Slackware still has it or if it is something left
over from prior versions of Slack.:) In any case, I can think of several
ways to play mp3's with programs other than mpg123.  Even Lame could be
told to play mp3 files by decoding the output to aplay for ALSA users.

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:43:16PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Cheryl,
> 
> I use a program which came once as part of the flite package, called
> flite_time. It actually sounds pretty good in spite of its family of
> origin. The voice is drawn from a library of fixed utterances for
> better quality. Let me know if you would like a copy. I drive mine from
> a crontab to tell me the time every 15 minutes.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Gene sent me the program and it sounds good but isn't really the one i 
> > was looking for. The one i had used mp3 files and needed mpg123. By 
> > typing saytime-1.0.tar.gz in google I found an article on the cli that 
> > has people download that file--unfortunately the link now comes up dry. 
> > I suspect that it may have been removed due to the use of mpg123, just 
> > as I noticed in my reinstall of debian that mp3 encoding support now 
> > has to be done from source. anyway, I'm really mad at myself; with all 
> > the stuff I backed up, I don't know why that got left out. Just glad to 
> > at least have the program with .au files from Gene.
> > 
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Re: OT: saytime program

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

Yes, I like that voice too. My favorite mp3 player is madplay, but
there are lots of others around. I think Cheryl was talking about
encoders though, such as lame, available as a Debian package from a
supplementary archive source.

Chuck

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Re: OT: saytime program

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi.

The issue wasn't that I didn't know a way to play mp3s; the issue is 
that the only version of saytime now anywhere online uses .au files, 
where for a while there was one that used mp3 files. Certainly you 
could rewrite it for another mp3 player; the problem is that the script 
and those particular files are apparently long gone. Glad there are 
other things to substitute though.

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Re: OT: saytime program

[Doug Smith]

What about this?  Why don't you make your own files.  You can make
them yourself, or have someone who has a voice you really like, make
them for you.  

All you need to do to make the files is use either the sox rec command
or arocord, whichever gives you the best results.  When the files are
made, you can simply do this, and I will be glad to help you find the
logic to parse the results.  

Write a program or some kind of script that can do all of these: 

First of all, call the date command.  This can be done in a shell
command with the exec "date" command or whatever it is, I would have
to play around for acouple of minutes to find out the exact command
structure.  This would have to go into a variable which would be
parsed.  

The parsing logic is relatively simple, We can easily see, when we
use the date command, how many characters are used for each part of
the results.  So the program would then have to: 

look through the string for the first, second, third, etc parts of the
results of the date command.  Then all we would have to do is this: 

decide which files to play.  We can do this by reading what the
results of our new parsed data variables tell us.  You can have the
program do all of this, if you want.  

If you don't like the standard military time read-outs of date, the
program can simply subtract 12 from each hour starting at 1300 hours
or 1:00 PM, and the files could say the time in 12-hour format.  

That's all a talking clock, talking digital watch, or any other
talking time-telling device does.  With all this, use the sox play
command or the aplay command, each of which will handle mp3 files, and
you are good to go.  You have your own saytime program.  



Hope this helps. 




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Computer Scientist For CHRIST

Re: OT: saytime program

[John Heim]

I can provide some sound files.  The voice is not the greatest.  Plus, there 
is no "eleven" or "twelve" file, which  would be a problem for a saytime 
program. I got these files off a CD of public domain images and sound files. 
So if you want them, see
http://personalpages.tds.net/~johnheim/sounds/clock/

I don't actually have a saytime program but what I do with these files is 
set up cron jobs to remind me of things. For instance, I have to leave by 
5:10 or I'll miss my bus. So I have a cron job for 5:08 PM that plays 
05.wav, O.wav, and 08.wav.  So at 5:08 PM, my linux box says "five oh 
eight".

Of course, it doesn't work if I'm not in my office. :-)

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To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: OT: saytime program


> What about this?  Why don't you make your own files.  You can make
> them yourself, or have someone who has a voice you really like, make
> them for you.
>
> All you need to do to make the files is use either the sox rec command
> or arocord, whichever gives you the best results.  When the files are
> made, you can simply do this, and I will be glad to help you find the
> logic to parse the results.
>
> Write a program or some kind of script that can do all of these:
>
> First of all, call the date command.  This can be done in a shell
> command with the exec "date" command or whatever it is, I would have
> to play around for acouple of minutes to find out the exact command
> structure.  This would have to go into a variable which would be
> parsed.
>
> The parsing logic is relatively simple, We can easily see, when we
> use the date command, how many characters are used for each part of
> the results.  So the program would then have to:
>
> look through the string for the first, second, third, etc parts of the
> results of the date command.  Then all we would have to do is this:
>
> decide which files to play.  We can do this by reading what the
> results of our new parsed data variables tell us.  You can have the
> program do all of this, if you want.
>
> If you don't like the standard military time read-outs of date, the
> program can simply subtract 12 from each hour starting at 1300 hours
> or 1:00 PM, and the files could say the time in 12-hour format.
>
> That's all a talking clock, talking digital watch, or any other
> talking time-telling device does.  With all this, use the sox play
> command or the aplay command, each of which will handle mp3 files, and
> you are good to go.  You have your own saytime program.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Doug Smith: C.S.F.C.
> Computer Scientist For CHRIST
>
>
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