In debian, there's a cowsay package you can use to make the computer speak. Also packages that produce different types of beeps are available. So far as I now know, they would need to be run as part of a bash script or the equivalent within emacs in order to work though.
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Martyn Jago wrote: > Hi > > Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanel...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm just starting to explore orgmode. I'm an experienced GTD-er (6 > > yrs) and have looked with interest at a few articles on using orgmode > > for this. The one area I can't seem to work out is how to set a > > reminder with an alarm and attach it to an entry. > > > > Suppose I have an entry like: > > > > ** My project > > *** My action 1 :home: > > *** My action 2 :follow up: > > > > I would like to be able to set a reminder that makes a visible (and > > maybe audible) alert - in say 4 hrs, 2 days, at 1530 next wednesday > > etc. I see that I can set schedules for when to start work, but I've > > been unable to get it to remind me at all. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > S. > > I use the growl notification system (on MAC) along with todochiku.el for > simple timer notification out of Emacs. Growl can be set to 'speak' the > notification (not sure about other sounds). > > todochiku also works with (snarl/libnotify) on other OSs. > > The command todochiku-message allows you to add a notification to a hook > such as org-timer-done-hook (in your init file)... > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun mj-notify-timer-done () > (todochiku-message "Title here" "Further text here" > (todochiku-icon 'bell))) > (add-hook 'org-timer-done-hook 'mj-notify-timer-done)) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Regards > > Martyn > > > Jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." ~ Bill Hicks