Hi all, Now that I have four of them consistently working, I feel ready to share what I've been working on for the last couple days. I am putting together a series of Apple scripts that will speak information, using VO if it is on or the default system speech if it is not. The ones I have so far are CPU, ram, wifi, and date/time. The really cool bit, though, is that each starts out by setting up a template. You can change this template, using keywords to define what is spoken where.
Let's look at the time script as an example, since everyone likes to have the date and time spoken differently. Right now, I have my template set to: $24hours:$minutes, $weekday, $month $dayOfMonth, $year which yields, right now: 22:55, Friday, May 24, 2013 Don't like 24 hour time? All you need to do is change your template: $12hours:$minutes $ampm, $month $dayOfMonth, $year and you'd hear something like: 10:56 PM, Friday, May 24, 2013 My other scripts do the same thing - one keystroke, for instance, and I know which wifi network I'm on and at what signal strength. Again, all of these have templates with certain keywords, so you can change how the script's information is spoken to exactly how you want it. So, my question: what else would you all like to see? I plan one for the space on the startup disk, and probably all other attached volumes, plus one for battery, but what else would be handy? These scripts are really meant to focus on quick bits of information that sighted people can use the status menus or dashboard to quickly look at - they have immediate access, and now we do too, plus we can fully customize the output. I make no promises that all the ideas I receive will make it, but if enough people ask for a certain feature, I'll try to add it in. I've thought about weather, but I really want to just distribute the scripts and not have any additional libraries or anything that you'd have to install. I'll look more into weather at some point. So, any small pieces of information you'd like to have one-key access to, let me know. thanks. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
