Unix: audible notifications about noti HOT 9 CLOSED

Seems interesting, but for now I'm going to focus on a big refactor of the code, so it's easier to add different notification types. I'll come back to this in a few weeks. :)

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Sure, just food for thought. :)

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All right. With the code refactored, this is definitely something we'll go after.

I've been working under the dev branch. In OS X, all Macs come with say installed, which can synthesize speech. There is also an Objective-C library for that called NSSpeechSynthesizer.

Looks like the Linux and FreeBSD equivalent of that is eSpeak. Audibly needs the espeak binary to be installed. I was thinking of bringing in the eSpeak library so noti doesn't have to depend on espeak being installed.

On the OS X side, I think speech notifications are basically ready. However, for Linux and FreeBSD there's a little more work that needs to be done. I have a working proof of concept, but I need to add a function to list available voices on the OS.

https://github.com/variadico/noti/blob/dev/espeak/espeak.go

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Awesome! I'll try to give the dev branch a spin soon.

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I had to add these two lines but now it talks! :)

diff --git a/espeak/espeak.go b/espeak/espeak.go
index 8b71e40..6f9425f 100644
--- a/espeak/espeak.go
+++ b/espeak/espeak.go
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ package espeak

 /*
 #cgo LDFLAGS: -lespeak
+#cgo freebsd CFLAGS: -I/usr/local/include
+#cgo freebsd LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/lib

 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
``

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Woot! 👍

How'd you install libespeak on FreeBSD? I'm a total BSD n00b.

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All user packages are installed under /usr/local, binary and from source (ports).

Since I don't need compile-time changes to eSpeak, I installed it as a binary package: pkg install espeak

(Some ports also split the headers into -dev packages like Debian but this isn't the case here. pkg search ... will usually help figure this out.)

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We have speech notifications now in v2!
https://github.com/variadico/noti/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#added

$ go get -u github.com/variadico/noti
$ noti -speech -b=0 # trigger only speech notification
$ noti -speech # trigger speech and banner notifications
$ export NOTI_DEFAULT="speech" # make speech notifications default
$ noti # trigger only speech notification

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Also, I decided against bringing in the espeak library with cgo because that made it harder to compile noti. We'll just look for the binary and if the user doesn't have it, noti will print how to install it on Ubuntu or FreeBSD.

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