I thought it could be fun to make the clock able to speak the current time by using the say-command available from the command line in OS X:
NAME say - Convert text to audible speech SYNOPSIS say [-v voice] [-r rate] [-o outfile [audio format options] | -n name:port | -a device] [-f file | string ...] DESCRIPTION This tool uses the Speech Synthesis manager to convert input text to audible speech and either play it through the sound output device chosen in System Preferences or save it to an AIFF fil
I made a shell script to produce audio files with spoken numbers from 0 to 59 and converted them to AD4.
Using this small routine, the clock speaks the current time when the play/pause-button on the Apple remote is pressed:
/*
* Speak current HH and MM using voice files from 0 to 59 starting at position 400
*/
void say_clock()
{
// hours
wtv020_cmd(400 + lcl_time->tm_hour);
_delay_ms(1000);
// extend delay for long hour numbers
if (lcl_time->tm_hour > 20)
_delay_ms(500);
// leading zero when single digit minutes
if (lcl_time->tm_min < 10)
{
wtv020_cmd(400);
_delay_ms(600);
}
// minutes
wtv020_cmd(400 + lcl_time->tm_min);
_delay_ms(1500);
// silence
wtv020_cmd(0xffff);
}
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