I use the following procmail script to make festival speak the FROM and SUBJECT
headings of new email through my speakers:
SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \
| expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
SENDER=`formail -xFrom: \
| expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
:0c
| echo "New mail from " $SENDER ". the subject is " $SUBJECT | festival --tts
That works great. However I am often listening to my vorbis collection. When
my music is playing and a new email comes in, the festival output just gets
garbled with the music. I would like to set up a procmail script that says
if xmms is playing:
xmms -u #pause xmms
process new email
if xmms was playing:
xmms -p #start playing again
I just don't know how to test for a process, and the two books I have on the
subject are too basic, or I'm missing the page. Any help appreciated.
-Lang
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