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A few fun python lines for your deploy script if you're on a mac

37 points by bemmu 16y ago

Ramone 16y ago
I use something like this for notifying about broken builds in our continuous integration environment, but on linux with "festival". I don't know if this utility has voices or not, but it works pretty well: echo Joe Strummer broke the build | festival --tts
- samdk 16y ago
  This looks like a very old version of the manual (I'm off to install it and take a look at a newer one) but festival does appear to have voices: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_24.html#SEC97 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_2... edit That appears to be the newest version of the docs. You can select voices by calling the function (voice_voicename) in interactive mode. So something like this works: echo -e "(voice_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts)\n(SayText \"this is a sentence\")" | festival On Fedora, I had to install the festvox- packages to get other voices.
- slug 16y ago
  On my systems I do: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#can.27t_open_.2Fdev.2Fdsp http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#can.27t_open_.2... since Alsa in general works better (no flock) than OSS.
kljensen 16y ago
This idea is both cute and useful. I frequently run a deployment script and switch to another window (e.g. HN) only to forget about the deployment. I will definitely be using this.
fizzfur 16y ago
If you've got Growl installed (and if you've had your mac longer than a day - you probably do), then you can use growlnotify to dump messages on your screen. I use it in long running scripts (like deploys). growlnotify -t "Deploy" -m "Complete"
mhansen 16y ago
Any linux equivalent?
- deleted 16y ago
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- sandaru1 16y ago
  You can use espeak for voice. > espeak "Hello World"
  - slug 16y ago
    flite is also good (simple). I used it to find the sound card model that would properly work with my laptop: http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#test-hda-intel-models http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#test-hda-intel-mode...
wonginator1221 16y ago
Shell script version #!/bin/bash VOICES=("agnes" "kathy" "princess" "vicki" "victoria" "bruce" "fred" "junior" "ralph" "albert" "bad" "bahh" "bells" "boing" "bubbles" "cellos" "deranged" "good" "hysterical" "pipe" "trinoids" "whisper") MSGS=("deploy is now complete" "deploy complete" "deploy completed" "sir the deployment has finished" "hey the deploy is done" "look at this cool deploy" "deployment completeed") VOICE=$RANDOM%${#VOICES[@]} MSG=$RANDOM%${#MSGS[@]} say -v ${VOICES[VOICE]} ${MSGS[MSG]}
oxtopus 16y ago
You can always add && say Done to the end of long-running commands and it just works.

37 points by bemmu 16y ago

I use something like this for notifying about broken builds in our continuous integration environment, but on linux with "festival". I don't know if this utility has voices or not, but it works pretty well: echo Joe Strummer broke the build | festival --tts

samdk 16y ago
This looks like a very old version of the manual (I'm off to install it and take a look at a newer one) but festival does appear to have voices: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_24.html#SEC97 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_2... edit That appears to be the newest version of the docs. You can select voices by calling the function (voice_voicename) in interactive mode. So something like this works: echo -e "(voice_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts)\n(SayText \"this is a sentence\")" | festival On Fedora, I had to install the festvox- packages to get other voices.
slug 16y ago
On my systems I do: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#can.27t_open_.2Fdev.2Fdsp http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#can.27t_open_.2... since Alsa in general works better (no flock) than OSS.

kljensen 16y ago

This idea is both cute and useful. I frequently run a deployment script and switch to another window (e.g. HN) only to forget about the deployment. I will definitely be using this.

fizzfur 16y ago

If you've got Growl installed (and if you've had your mac longer than a day - you probably do), then you can use growlnotify to dump messages on your screen. I use it in long running scripts (like deploys). growlnotify -t "Deploy" -m "Complete"

mhansen 16y ago

Any linux equivalent?

deleted 16y ago
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sandaru1 16y ago
You can use espeak for voice. > espeak "Hello World"
- slug 16y ago
  flite is also good (simple). I used it to find the sound card model that would properly work with my laptop: http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#test-hda-intel-models http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#test-hda-intel-mode...

wonginator1221 16y ago

Shell script version #!/bin/bash VOICES=("agnes" "kathy" "princess" "vicki" "victoria" "bruce" "fred" "junior" "ralph" "albert" "bad" "bahh" "bells" "boing" "bubbles" "cellos" "deranged" "good" "hysterical" "pipe" "trinoids" "whisper") MSGS=("deploy is now complete" "deploy complete" "deploy completed" "sir the deployment has finished" "hey the deploy is done" "look at this cool deploy" "deployment completeed") VOICE=$RANDOM%${#VOICES[@]} MSG=$RANDOM%${#MSGS[@]} say -v ${VOICES[VOICE]} ${MSGS[MSG]}

oxtopus 16y ago

You can always add && say Done to the end of long-running commands and it just works.