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saydate

Description:
  • A Linux shell program that talks the date and system uptime.
  • saydate was adapted from saytime.sh (shell version of saytime, by david@eng.sun)

Author: Anthony Tekatch

Download: saydate-0.3.0.tar.gz source code

Download: saydate_0.3.0-1_i386.deb Debian package maintained by Dr. Guenter Bechly

Download: saydate_0.3.0-5 and saydate_0.3.0-5 Debian package maintained by Oohara Yuuma

Screenshot:

Sound recording is not necessary for running saydate but it is useful if you want to record your own voice in place of mine.
Check to see if your system supports sounds by running the folowing code snippet:

# record 4 seconds of audio from microphone

dd bs=8k count=4 </dev/audio >sample.au

# play back sound

cat sample.au >/dev/audio

Requirements:
  • Linux (also possible any Unix)
  • /dev/audio sound device

Tested with:
  • Linux Redhat 6.2
  • Linux Debian
  • Soundblaster PnP16 soundcard
  • Crystal audio soundcard
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