SAYTIME(1) General Commands Manual SAYTIME(1)NAME
saytime - audio time check
SYNOPSIS
saytime [ -ch ] [ -d dir ] [ -f fmt ] [ -o dev ] [ -t output-type ]
DESCRIPTION
saytime speaks the current time through the computer's sound device.
OPTIONS -v factor
Increase volume level by factor. Directly passed on to sox.
-r sec Repeat at the specified interval in background mode.
-c Output to stdout.
-d dir Use sounds from alternate directory (default /usr/share/saytime).
-f fmt Specify format of time message. (see FORMAT STRING below).
-h Display simple help.
-o dev Output to alternate file. If -t is not specified with -o, -t defaults to ossdsp.
-t output-type
Specify the output type (oss, alsa, etc.); this is passed directly to sox. If neither -t nor -o is specified, saytime will pick a
default destination via sox -d.
FORMAT STRING
A format string can be specified to control the time message. Valid format characters are:
%k hour, 24-hour clock (00..23)
%l hour, 12-hour clock (01..12)
%M minutes
%P Introductory phrase ('The time is')
%S seconds
The default format string is %P%l%M%S.
BUGS
Likely a few. It doesn't handle errors gracefully.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jef Poskanzer (original author),
Patrick J. Edwards <pje120@mail.usask.ca>
Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
David C Dawson <beagle7@pacificcoast.net> (the -v and -r options)
14 Sep 2004 SAYTIME(1)
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play(1) General Commands Manual play(1)NAME
play - play any sound file to audio device
rec - record audio to any sound file format
SYNOPSIS
play [fopts] infile [effect]
rec [fopts] outfile [effect]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the play and rec commands.
play and rec are programs that allow you to play and record different types of sound files from the command line. They are front ends to
the more general sox(1) package. Normally, the play command will automatically detect the type and other parameters of the soundfile. If
it can't do so, the parameters can be changed through options.
OPTIONS
A summary of common options are included below. For a complete description of options and their values, see the sox(1) man page.
-c [channels], --channels=[channels]
Define the number of channels in the file.
-d [device], --device=[device]
Specify a different device to play the sound file to.
-f [format], --format=[format]
Specify bit format of the sample. One of s, u, U, A, a, or g.
-r [rate], --rate=[rate]
Specify the sample rate of the audio data (samples per second).
-s [size], --size=[size]
Specify the width of each sample. One of b, w, l, f, d, or D.
-t [type], --type=[type]
Specify audio file format to use. Useful if it can not be automatically determined.
-v [volume], --volume=[volume]
Change the audio volume
-x , --xinu
Reverse the byte order of the sample (only works with 16 and 32-bit data).
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version of play/rec.
Description of effects are described in the
sox(1) man page.
SEE ALSO sox(1)soxexam(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Guenter Geiger <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
Updates by Anonymous.
December 11, 2001 play(1)
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