Hello, who speaks to me?
11-27-2021
The computer speaks understandable Dutch.
The best is
spd-say
: it speaks Dutch and is easy to understand.You can use
spd-say
in shell scripts, even if they are running in the background. Handy to keep yourself informed of everything from cron jobs that you have running. Ideas: - When a certain person tweets, he pronounces that tweet.
- When a Whats App message comes in, he pronounces who it is from.
- Timers that go off when you have to do your shopping (to-do list).
- If it starts to rain while you have to exercise outside, your computer will notify you.
- When the 3d printer is ready he says so. Or he tells you how far he is every half hour.
- If you receive an email from your boss (or your wife), he will tell you to open your email program.
- NS API: if there is a problem on the track and you have to go to work, your computer will tell you to check the NS app.
sudo apt install speech-dispatcher
Example of speaking in Dutch with a volume 40% lower than normal:
spd-say -l en -i -40 "Hello lovely people"
Script to say the number of files in a folder:
COUNT=$(ls | wc -l)
spd-say -l en -i 40 $COUNT
Type man
spd-say
for nice handy command line options.
Scripts are super useful because they take little time to create - they are often short - and they make life a lot easier.
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