talkingclock

🕓 Command line application which says the time.

• Written in response to this /r/dailyprogrammer challenge.

Building from source

Prerequisites to build are:

• Rust tools (rustc, cargo, etc).
• Ruby, Rake, gems and OS gem (optional).
• UPX (optional).

Runtime dependencies:

• .NET Framework v4.5+ (Windows).
• Eli Fulkerson's voice.exe and sounder.exe utilities placed either in PATH or this program's root directory (Windows).
• say and ffplay (Unices: BSD/Linux/Mac OS X).

Building:

• > rake # or: cargo build --release
• > rake upx # if you want to compress resultant executable with UPX.
• > rake install # to install a global command (must have run rake upx first) to invoke the talking clock.

Usage

• talkingclock # say the current time.
• talkingclock --time 13:05 # say one oh five / thirteen oh five.
• talkingclock --help # see all options and exit.