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Trick: Making Your Server-box Talk Like in Those Old Movies |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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This is a silly
geek thing but you might like it. Why not let your penguin-server talk
to you when it needs updates or other interesting things happen? Code and config in these examples are tested on a debian box. What we need: A software for speech synthesis - espeak is good for this purpse, quiet configurable and the voice quality is OK.
A software that can trigger events, when certain log entries appear swatch is our friend here. it reads logs in realtime and triggers a command if a specific pattern is found. In our case it will just trigger espeak to say something. Read more at Neworder.box.sk
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