saydate

Langue: en

Version: 254858 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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NAME

saydate 0.3.0 - audio date/uptime check

SYNOPSIS

saydate [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the saydate command.

saydate is a Linux shell program that talks the current date through the computer's sound device. It is adapted from the shell version of saytime.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.
-dow
Say weekday name (Sunday..Saturday).
-month
Say month name (January..December).
-day
Say day of month (the 1st..31st).
-year
Say year (1970...).
-uptime
Say the system uptime (uptime is 7 days 3 hours 47 minutes).
-the_date_is
Say the phrase the date is.
-the
Say the word the.
-and
Say the word and.
--help
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version of program.

FILES

/usr/share/saydate/*
sound files needed to say the date.
/usr/bin/au2raw
skript to convert files from au to raw for own recordings of saydate's voice.

BUGS

Only English files are supported. Probably a few more.

SEE ALSO:

au2raw(1), saytime(1).

Word-Wide-Web:

http://webhome.idirect.com/~tekatch/anthony/saydate

AUTHOR

Anthony Tekatch <tekatch@idirect.com>

This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <GBechly@gmx.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is distributed under the GPL just like saydate itself.