[PLUG] Tempest for Eliza - broadcast messages?

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Feb 14 17:56:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 15:36, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:

> Theoretically you could also do text to speech conversion and broadcast
> console messages to radio... has anyone experimented with this? I think it
> might be useful - for example your computer could send out a bulletin when
> your kernel was done compiling, or make periodic reports on network
> activity...

Yeah, my friend did this a few years ago--high level syslog messages
went out to a voice synth, which played over the PC speaker, IIRC.  Neat
hack; never got it packaged up enough to be generally useful and the
systems are all gone now anyway...

Wil
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