Comments on: Multitasking using OS X’s speech service http://wysz.com/wyszdom/2009/06/multitasking-using-os-xs-speech-service/ More than cats. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:46:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Troy http://wysz.com/wyszdom/2009/06/multitasking-using-os-xs-speech-service/comment-page-1/#comment-5880 Troy Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:04:07 +0000 http://wysz.com/wyszdom/?p=1225#comment-5880 I have to chime in here. In College, I set up an awesome alarm clock that would wake me up. First, it would curl a weather website that I knew had an english description of the weather for my location. I parsed through the html to find the section with the weather report and used the "say" commandline utility to speak it aloud. Then I'd use apple script to start a loud playlist on iTunes so that if I missed the weather, at least I wouldn't stay asleep. Too bad I fried my hard disk when I tried to transfer the guts of my iMac into a cardboard box and make it a headless iMac. It would be fun to see if that script still worked. I have to chime in here. In College, I set up an awesome alarm clock that would wake me up. First, it would curl a weather website that I knew had an english description of the weather for my location. I parsed through the html to find the section with the weather report and used the “say” commandline utility to speak it aloud. Then I’d use apple script to start a loud playlist on iTunes so that if I missed the weather, at least I wouldn’t stay asleep.

Too bad I fried my hard disk when I tried to transfer the guts of my iMac into a cardboard box and make it a headless iMac. It would be fun to see if that script still worked.

]]> By: Mike http://wysz.com/wyszdom/2009/06/multitasking-using-os-xs-speech-service/comment-page-1/#comment-5868 Mike Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:40:34 +0000 http://wysz.com/wyszdom/?p=1225#comment-5868 That's exactly how I read your blog. Although I like hearing your voice as "Victoria" in the system preferences. Is that weird? That’s exactly how I read your blog. Although I like hearing your voice as “Victoria” in the system preferences. Is that weird?

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