This project will expose you to the Bash shell scripting language. You will build a talking clock that tells the time every minute using an executable and an Internet-based web service. Once the clock is up and running, you will use an automation tool called Cron to schedule and run tasks at a particular time or at regular intervals.
The talking clock will have the following features and functions:
Automatically start every minute and run in the background without any visible interface to the desktop user
Read the system time to get the local time on your Pi
Produce a correctly formatted time string to announce the time, for example, you might say "The time is now nine fifteen AM"
Convert the time string to audio and play it
Exit the script