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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for talking greeting INIT
Message-ID: <2936@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 90 03:12:17 GMT
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In article <3434@uwm.edu> zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske) writes:
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>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.


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