VoiceClock REXX Program v0.02 Chris Boyd email: cboyd@ksu.ksu.edu 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� VoiceClock/REXX v0.02 by Chris Boyd August 26, 1996 OS/2 freeware 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� Please, if you use this program, let me know that you use it, and if you could, what you think about it. Since it's freeware, I hope I'm not asking too much. email Chris Boyd or catch me on IRC at #os/2, look for Soma0. --------------------- WHAT IS THIS PROGRAM? --------------------- VoiceClock/REXX is a OS/2 REXX program that will announce the current time and date on your WAVEAUDIO device, such as a SoundBlaster, etc. You can type "VoiceClock" at the command line to hear just time time and day once, or you can add command line switches to keep VoiceClock running in the background constantly and remind you of the time at whatever intervals you choose. Since this program is a REXX program, flexibility comes naturally, and you can include a hook to this program in many other places in OS/2. ---------------------------------------------- WHAT DO I NEED TO RUN VOICECLOCK SUCCESSFULLY? ---------------------------------------------- * A computer running OS/2 with REXX support installed * Free space on an HPFS drive * A WAVEAUDIO device, such as a Soundblaster, PAS16, etc --------------------------------- HOW DO I INSTALL VOICECLOCK/REXX? --------------------------------- Create a directory on any HPFS disk you want, call it anything you want. I suggest something like "D:\VoiceClock". Unzip the ZIP file. It will extract all the needed files. After that, you are ready. (If you are reading this, you're probably done already) ----------------- WHAT DO I DO NOW? ----------------- You can interact with VoiceClock, of course, from the command line. Type in "VoiceClock" and it will run in SINGLE announce mode. You will hear the time and date, and it will quit. To find out what else you can do, type in "VoiceClock -?" and you will see a list of command line switches. You can use up to 3 switches at once. Switches: /Cx = CONTINUOUS announce mode This places VoiceClock in CONTINUOUS mode, which is where VoiceClock announces the time/date once and keeps running, waits for x minutes, and announces again. x = minutes between announcements set x = 0 to announce on the half hour and hour set x = Q to announce on quarter, half hour, and hour If you just put "/C", it will default to announcing on the half hour and hour. You must press CTRL-C to quit CONTINUOUS mode. /T = Announce TIME only Obviously, it only announces the TIME, leaving out the DATE. /D = Announce DATE only Same as above, but vice versa. /N = Disables screen output For those times you can't have VoiceClock making a bunch of screen noise. :) /? = Displays help screen Duh. :) --------- NOW WHAT? --------- Now you implement VoiceClock where ever you need it. Look at the code. Learn REXX. Place hooks to VoiceClock in places where it is handy and/or practical. It's freeware, have fun. Oh, BTW, you can replace the WAV files included with your own. Just make sure the WAV files you make are the same name as the ones you see now: 01.WAV through 59.WAV - Used for minutes of the hour, and days of the week O01.WAV through O09.WAV - Used for minutes 01 through 09 "Oh-one" etc. The01 through The31.WAV - Days of the month "The first" etc. Sunday.WAV through Saturday.WAV - Days of the week. January.WAV through December.WAV - The months. TheTimeIs.WAV - Starts the time announcement ("The Time Is:") TodayDate.WAV - Starts the date announcement ("The Date Is:") am.wav and pm.wav - as in "3 am" and "9 pm" ----------------------------- WHAT'LL BE IN LATER VERSIONS? ----------------------------- Well, I once was going to use rsynth, a text to speech digitizer, but I found out rsynth is just too huge and sounds too nasty to justify including in VoiceClock. Maybe some other time. Future versions will include the features UNIX people find in cron. You will be able to schedule VoiceClock/REXX to automatically run any command/program at a certain time. Naturally, I'm open to suggestions. :) ------- HISTORY ------- 0.02 (Aug 26 1996) * Decreased the size of ALL the default WAV files in VoiceClock/REXX. This made the size of the whole program shrink from 3.6 megs to about 600k at once! * Fixed the annoying "garble" after pressing CTRL-C to quit CONTINUOUS mode. 0.01� (Aug 24 1996) * First public beta test, quick and short too. ----------------------------------------------------------- COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, MOANS, WHINING, COMPLAINTS, THANK YOUS ----------------------------------------------------------- Send 'em all to: cboyd@ksu.ksu.edu BTW, please write, I'd like to hear from you if you actually use this program. (hris Boyd August 26, 1996