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Why did not one think to use espeak to read your new message with a long press of the camera button? Good idea bad idea?

Good idea but we need a sexy women speaking to us.

I'm fairly certain none of the Free/Open Source TTS systems will meet that specification. The most bearable female TTS voice I've seen that wasn't from a proprietary system was slt_arctic_hts, from Festival.

To the OP: Are you referring to new SMS/IM messages?

SMS/IM and possibly even email. It's not a bad idea.

I tried out espeak Time but I naturally press the button twice to unlock (habit) thus every time I was unlocking my phone it would spout off the time.

Thank you! I didnt know how to get espeaktime to say the time, its not written anywhere (I could find!)

Hi,
anything new on this topic?
I discovered espeak while using gtranslate.
is it possible to run espeakt from the terminal?

I would like to let read my new messages to me

dabozz

Here is a quick script to speak the time

You would need something that could read the database file in which phone records and IM/sms are kept. I know you can see them in glogarchive but I don't know how to get espeak to read a line in the database using the command line.

I wrote simple script in perl to speak sms IM messages and time
(like espeaktime).
You could try this (attached file).
czech muttation is here http://mymaemo.cz/forum/index.php/topic,1234.0.html

Download it and run in term.
perl espeakxen.pl.txt

Dependencies
espeak
zenity

by root run
apt-get install espeak
apt-get install zenity

break is CTRL+c

Without invalidating the Perl script above which reads the message, wouldn't it be simpler just to type in the command for reading the message? Just open the X Terminal window and type

sqlite3 -csv $( ls $HOME/.rtcom-eventlogger/el*db -1t | head -n1 ) "SELECT free_text FROM Events WHERE service_id='3' ORDER BY start_time DESC;" | head -n1 | espeak

You do have to make sure espeak is installed. You can do it from the usual App Manager or, if you know how to gain root, run as root: "apt-get install espeak". (You don't need espeakmsg or espeaktime or whatever.)

Of course, typing that 166-character line above is not that convenient, so you can stick it in a two-line shell script file that says:

#!/bin/sh
sqlite3 -csv $( ls $HOME/.rtcom-eventlogger/el*db -1t | head -n1 ) "SELECT free_text FROM Events WHERE service_id='3' ORDER BY start_time DESC;" | head -n1 | espeak


If you name the file "ss", for example, then you just type "ss"[Enter] which is 3 characters.

You can also stick it in a widget on your N900 "desk"top, so you can just tap the icon to read the most recent sms message.