Re: Sound for countdown timer

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alex wrote:
I'm trying to get sound working for a general purpose countdown timer
that can be set for hours, minutes, and seconds. It offers a variety of
sounds that you can choose from to indicate the end of countdown. The
counter works in Windows or Linux. I want to use it in UBUNTU.


The counter works _online_ and you can access it directly without
downloading at:

http://timberfrog.com/countdown/


In my case, the timer can be set and works counts down fine but that I don't have
any sound neither the test nor end of countdown, so I need help in setting up the sound.

There are several, though I haven't looked lately to see which ones
are the easiest to use through Ubuntu; try this:

aptitude search timer or aptitude search countdown

You won't have to be root to try this. Are you seeking a GUI kind
of thing? There's a 'typing rest timer', for example, or if you're
comfortable with the command line, you can always pipe commands like this:

echo /usr/local/bin/mytimer-program | at now +12 minutes

...and in 12 minutes the program will launch, though it won't be tied
to an X window, unless you make special arrangements.

I use something like this:

echo "$HOME/bin/wakeme Today we look for work" | at now + 1 day

And the program will call 'wakeme' which uses festival to say the
words, after playing some claxon sounds, and making sure the music
players have all been stopped. Yeah, it's an alarm clock.

Lots of things are posisible, though...
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