Re: [CentOS] Audio Output Timer Utility

Thanks for the information on festival.I think that this will work for at leastsome of our applications.

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:43 PM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:34:32 +0000 (UTC) Chris Olson wrote:

One of our test directors suggested that we use a digital count- down timer with audio outputs to prompt test operators for their inputs or responses at appropriate times.  We have not found such a utility on our CentOS 6 distribution.

Use the sleep command and festival.

#!/bin/bash echo "one " | festival --tts sleep 5 echo "two" | festival --tts sleep 4 echo "ten thousand three hundred twelve " | festival --tts sleep 50 echo "operation complete" | festival --tts