The original AT&T speaking clock seems to be coming to an end. According to an article in the La Times, online at
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is ending the service because the equipment is outdated and time is available in so many other ways (how many of them are really correct?)
As shown in the article, lots of room for time-related puns.
(found via slashdot,
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Users of Asterisk, the open source computer-based pabx, can build their own speaking clock. I build one mimicking the Dutch speaking clock experience (002). The relevant source is in
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page is in Dutch, but anyone working on Asterisk should be able to deal with the relevant part to insert in extensions.conf and play with this).
Koos van den Hout