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Announce the bloody time

Simple bash script that annouces the time every hour, much like in macos:

Inspired by this stack exchange question:

It uses festival as its text-to-speech engine:

Ubuntu Installation

  1. Install festival with apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install festival
  1. Clone this repo to your home directory:
$ git clone https://github.com/librity/announce_the_time.git ~/.announce_the_time
  1. Open/create your crontab:
$ EDITOR="nano" VISUAL="nano" crontab -e
  1. Add this job to your crontab and save it:
@hourly ~/.announce_the_time/on_the_hour.sh
  1. Verify that the job was added to your crontab:
$ crontab -l

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