TimeAnnounceOjisan

A ShellScript for Mac-like Time Announcement

Quickstart

1. Satisfy the requirements. ( See Requirements )
2. Just download the script and put it anywhere you want.
3. Edit variables. ( See Variables )
4. Schedule a cron job for the script.
5. Now, forget about it and have a cup of coffee! Time will tell.

Requirements

Notification OSD

• Gnome 3, dbus
• On the other environments, modify pid variable
• libnotify

Announcement

• Festival, a speech synthesis system
• If you use Google Translate TTS API, this is not required.
• wget
• mpg123
• these two are required, if you use Google Translate TTS API.

Optional Requirement for Scheduled Jobs

• cron

Variables

There are a few variables you need to edit.

• uname
• your username: ( e.g., Taro )
• notify
• yes / no
• whether you want the notification OSD or not
• engine
• festival / google
• which speech engine you use
• Google's one is unofficial. Use it at your own risk.

Open the script, and edit these values. You will find them at the top.

Detailed Installation

First, place the script into any folder you want to. In this instruction, it is /home/Taro/.

Then, open it and edit like this:

uname=Taro      # your username
notify=yes      # do you want a notification OSD? ( yes / no )
engine=festival # which speech engine you use     ( festival / google )

Finally, set up a scheduled job using crontab. If you want announcement once every hour, it would be:

0 * * * * /home/Taro/announce.sh

Done! Enjoy!