Get Ubuntu to tell you the time

Every day more people with disabilities are trying to enter the digital world. This means that more and more functions and programs are appearing aimed at adapt the Ubuntu desktop to your needs. Such is the case of Orca, a screen reader that allows certain disabled people to know what is represented on the screen in an audible way and without depending on the resolution of the screen.

Similar functions does Talking Clock, a console script that will allow us to know the system time audibly as if it were a bell clock, informing us of the time, the half hours, the time every five minutes or every "x" minutes that we indicate.

Talking Clock and SayTime are two options to know the time audibly in Ubuntu

Talking Clock is a script that can be obtained through this link. Once downloaded, we give the user permissions and run it, all in this way:

sudo talking-clock -f[n] ( donde "n" marcaremos el tiempo en minuto que queramos)

To finish its operation we write the following:

sudo talking-clock -s

There is another more standardized option but consumes more resources than the previous program. This application is called saytime. To install it, we open the terminal and write the following:

sudo apt-get install saytime

To run the program we just have to run the program followed by the seconds we want the time signal to give us. In general, the number 3.600 is applied, which are the seconds that an hour contains. So to execute it we write the following in a terminal:

saytime -r 3600

Gnome Calendar also allows this hourly announcementWe only have to activate it, however, in all the options, for them to work properly they must have the sound configured correctly, otherwise the alarm programs will not be able to work either. Something that must be taken into account when using this type of program.