zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) (04/15/90)
I am looking for an INIT program which will greet you in any kind of voice when you startup your machine, with the greeting corresponding to the time of day. For example, from 12 midnight to noon, it would say "Good Morning", from noon till 6 PM "Good Afternoon" and "Good Evening" from 6 PM till midnight. Does anyone know of an existing program like this? If not, anyone interested in making one? As a beginner in the Mac world, I don't have the expierience to make one myself, but would be willing to pay for someone to build one for me. With the Macs sound capabilities it seems to me that this shouldn't be too difficult to build. Just have the program read the clock, and send out one of the 3 sounds for that particular times. Any ideas? -- (Steve Kosloske) | ------------------------------------| "No man's knowledge here can go Internet: zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | beyond his experience." - UUCP: uunet!zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu | John Locke
wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli) (04/15/90)
In article <3434@uwm.edu> zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) writes: > >I am looking for an INIT program which will greet you in any kind of voice when >you startup your machine, with the greeting corresponding to the time of day. >For example, from 12 midnight to noon, it would say "Good Morning", from noon >till 6 PM "Good Afternoon" and "Good Evening" from 6 PM till midnight. Well, such a program exists. It is an INIT/CDEV called Lip Service, and it is available on Sumex. While it can only deliver a voice as good as MacInTalk can, it does to <daypart> (ie evening), <weekday>, <day>, <month>, <year>, and <time>. All of these can be combined in any way with regular text to be said each time the system is started up. -- ******************************************************************************* * Bill Taroli (WWTAROLI@RODAN.acs.syr.edu) | "You can and must understand * * Syracuse University, Syracuse NY | computers NOW!" -- Ted Nelson * *******************************************************************************