Comments on: Shell scripts that talk back (and make you millions)

By: Jon Chase

Jon Chase — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:04:28 +0000

@jay – nice! I didn’t even think about Growl. I might have to work that in as well, just in case I have my speakers turned off.

@rusty – I didn’t realize how easy it’d be to play sounds on Linux. I love apt-get.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:33:08 +0000

Great tip and timely too. Just today I was working on a python script to monitor our svn repository and pop up Growl notifications when it was out of date. It uses the “growlnotify” command line client to actually generate the notices: http://growl.info/documentation/growlnotify.php Useful in case the voices freak you or if you want to push notices to an iPhone (http://prowl.weks.net/)

By: Rusty Weneck

Rusty Weneck — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:42:07 +0000

For you Linux users out there, I reccommend sox, http://sox.sourceforge.net/ (sudo apt-get install sox). Then you can use

~#play myMp3.mp3

As well as many others.

By: Jon Chase

Jon Chase — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:41:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Jeff. I didn’t realize that was built into .NET. I wonder if Java has that capability…

By: Jeff Lewis

Jeff Lewis — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:37:51 +0000

I didn’t know about the say command in OSX. Here is a C#/.NET 3.5 version in a few lines:

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string words = string.Join(” “, args);
var s = new SpeechSynthesizer();
s.Speak(words);
}
}