Comments on: Making Your Ubuntu System Read Out Loud http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/making-your-ubuntu-system-read-out-loud/ Resources, help, how to's and tutorials for Ubuntu Linux users! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steven http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/making-your-ubuntu-system-read-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-2998 Steven Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:07:37 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1643#comment-2998 It's cool that you can pipe output to it as well. You can do neat little things like: <code>grep "Jun 19" /var/log/messages | espeak</code> You can have your computer read your message log to you. Granted, this is kind of dorky but you could apply it to something more useful like creating a Perl script to parse your Thunderbird or Evolution mail file and reading back the email body text to you. It’s cool that you can pipe output to it as well. You can do neat little things like:

grep "Jun 19" /var/log/messages | espeak

You can have your computer read your message log to you. Granted, this is kind of dorky but you could apply it to something more useful like creating a Perl script to parse your Thunderbird or Evolution mail file and reading back the email body text to you.

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]]> By: UbuntuLinuxHelp http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/making-your-ubuntu-system-read-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-2980 UbuntuLinuxHelp Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:37:22 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1643#comment-2980 @Vadim P. Thanks - Very nice! http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Gespeaker and files here: http://www.box.net/shared/mva8ngq25l @Vadim P.

Thanks – Very nice!
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app....../Gespeaker and files here: http://www.box.net/shared/mva8.....ngq25l

]]> By: vadim p. http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/making-your-ubuntu-system-read-out-loud/comment-page-1/#comment-2965 vadim p. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:55:47 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1643#comment-2965 gespeak was posted on gnomefiles a few days ago too. graphical frontend for espeak gespeak was posted on gnomefiles a few days ago too. graphical frontend for espeak

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