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Voice Clock
Description
A simple proof of concept, using X+V in a widget. To get the full use of this widget you will need to be using Opera 9+ on Windows 200 or XP with the voice add on installed:
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/voice/
Clicking on the top right icon will make the widget actually tell you what time it is with VoiceXML.
I did plan on giving this more features, such as text-to-speech reminders, but the Voice XML only works when the widget has focus; and I found no way of automatically giving it focus when it needed it, so the feature was pointless.
The widget background is SVG but can be modified using simple CSS. I've heavily commented the code, so feel free to poke around...
update: 1.01b, fixed error with 'quarter to' voice saying the wrong things...
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About this widget
| Downloads | 39,112 |
|---|---|
| Category | Time and Date |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Size | 6KB |
| Last update | August 15, 2006 |
| Devices | desktop |
| Original page | Internet Archive |
Very nice :-)
Cool! It's sad that voice can't work on background - text-to-speech reminder is a nice idea.
the time is a quarter to four... nice widget indeed!
X+V is pretty cool for widgets.
Quite nice..unfortunately,insists its PM when its AM. Clearly doesn't like Vic. lol
I tried downloading this widget twice. Both times my machine immediately became a target of multiple port scans. Seems fishy to me.
Looking good, thanks
Finally a clock with sound that does not require Flashplayer! Great. My only wish is that it had an alarm that will TELL YOU that the alarm is 'ringing'. Keep up the good work!
nyc one
It is a good idea. Unfortunately, Opera voice cannot speak in background. If we already click the clock widget to foreground, we would have read the time from its face. One way for it to be more useful will be that when we bring it to foreground by Alt-Tab or clicking from the task bar, it would anounce the time once. Then we do not need to read its face or care where the clock is.
Very cute, thanks
This is nice but why make a click to know the time when I can know it simply by taking a look at my start bar? It would more interesting if the voice could automatically tell the time evry ten minutes. Anyway it is cool.