Sound for countdown timer

[Brian Fahrlander]

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alex wrote:
> I'm trying to get sound working for a general purpose countdown timer
> that can be set for hours, minutes, and seconds.  It offers a variety of
> sounds that you can choose from to indicate the end of countdown.  The
> counter works in Windows or Linux.  I want to use it in UBUNTU.
> 
> 
> The counter works _online_ and you can access it directly without
> downloading at:
> 
>              http://timberfrog.com/countdown/
>        
> 
> In my case, the timer can be set and works counts down fine but that I don't have
> any sound  neither the test nor end of countdown, so I need help in setting up the sound.

    There are several, though I haven't looked lately to see which ones
are the easiest to use through Ubuntu; try this:

    aptitude search timer    or  aptitude search countdown

    You won't have to be root to try this.  Are you seeking a GUI kind
of thing?  There's a 'typing rest timer', for example, or if you're
comfortable with the command line, you can always pipe commands like this:

   echo /usr/local/bin/mytimer-program | at now +12 minutes

   ...and in 12 minutes the program will launch, though it won't be tied
to an X window, unless you make special arrangements.

   I use something like this:

   echo "$HOME/bin/wakeme Today we look for work" | at now + 1 day

   And the program will call 'wakeme' which uses festival to say the
words, after playing some claxon sounds, and making sure the music
players have all been stopped.  Yeah, it's an alarm clock.

   Lots of things are posisible, though...
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