My choice for this task is festival. The voice-quality is nearly
retro synthetic, and it will get me up for a fifteen-second stretch
break.
my shell script, which is named nag:
#!/bin/bash
echo "please get oop" | festival --tts
sleep 3
# blank the screen to be really obnoxious
#xset dpms force standby
echo "stretch backward" | festival --tts
sleep 3
echo "stretch left" | festival --tts
sleep 3
echo "stretch right" | festival --tts
sleep 3
echo "thanks"|festival --tts
On 12/20/05, Tom Metro <pm-5a1Jt6qxUNc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Phil Mitchell wrote:
> > ...all I want to do is play a soundfile.
> > Am I missing an easy solution?
>
> Isn't audio playback on your typical Linux box as trivial as copying an
> audio file to the appropriate audio device? Google turned up examples
> such as:
>
> cat crash.au >/dev/audio
> cat door_open.au > /dev/audio
> cat door_open.au > /dev/dsp
>
>
> And "The Linux Sound HOWTO":
>
> http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/Sound-HOWTO-6.html
>
> which details the various audio devices.
>
>
> You should be able to use system() to invoke 'cat' from Perl, if you
> want to be lazy, or open()/syswrite().
>
> -Tom
>
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