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Article #13694Re: Speaking clock
From: Jef Poskanzer
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:02
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:02
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In the referenced message, astroatc!ttl@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Tony Laundrie) wrote:
}Does anybody have a program to annouce the time every hour or half hour in
}a human voice using the SparcStation audio port?
Good idea. I just whipped up a talking clock program. It is available
for FTP as ftp.ee.lbl.gov:saytime.tar.Z. Getting it to run every half
hour is left as an exercise.
Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef
The only problem with being a man of leisure is that you can never stop
and take a rest.
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