Announce the bloody time

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

• https://ioshacker.com/how-to/mac-announce-time-every-hour-guide

Inspired by this stack exchange question:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/686938/announce-the-time-on-the-hour

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

• https://github.com/festvox/festival

Ubuntu Installation

1. Install festival with apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install festival

2. Clone this repo to your home directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/librity/announce_the_time.git ~/.announce_the_time

3. Open/create your crontab:

$ EDITOR="nano" VISUAL="nano" crontab -e

4. Add this job to your crontab and save it:

@hourly ~/.announce_the_time/on_the_hour.sh

5. Verify that the job was added to your crontab:

$ crontab -l