UPDATE: I have just added another animation option (hop), you can check it out here.

Watch the video.

cmatrix has it’s own features, and has most certainly been an inspiration. At first I made a project as a matrix-clone, in c.

Later on I added an extra feature in another project, rendering ascii-art in the foreground. In this step I tried taking a step further on.

oh boy, everything means something, all the names are taken.

Cheers!

I am a linux user, this is a FOSS project that I created.

This is a project that makes my linux experience more pleasant.

Is this a project that might interest other linux users, or might make their experience better?

Judging from the 49 upvotes so far, yes.

Do you share the same opinion? I don’t know.

If not, feel free to downvote, and/or move on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqlEQBE-bY

This script was inspired by this bash script:

https://github.com/pipeseroni/pipes.sh

It also is a variation of another project of mine:

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/c-pipes

lolwtf

A cron job would not be a bad idea.

But if others take the chance and it sticks around a bit, I’ll come around ;-)

Hey, like many bash scripts, this one is just a glorifief one-liner. But I use it everyday, I am biased, of course, but it is rather convenient, and prevents me from getting lost in rabbit holes.

given the number of stories I’ve heard (and experienced) about Bash’s tricky syntax leading to Bad Things,

Been there, done that!

Fair enough, you do you.

For the record, no rm -r in the script.

The only rm command, line 394: rm "${UEBERZUG_FIFO_MAGIC_TAPE}"

Thanks, any feedback is appreciated.

piper

Indeed piper performs very well. Thank you for the input, I will most certainly consider adding the option to select tts engine in the near future, piper sounds totally worth it.

speech-dispatcher

If you are referring to locally generated speech synthesis, the respecting outcome as far as I am concerned generally sounds generally poorer, and is more difficult to manage. However you can check out the original project https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sapo, where the audio files are generated locally.

Do you mean an option to choose between various tts methods?

And, as far as

send-your-text-to-Microsoft bit

goes, well, if MS wants a copy of Brothers Karamazov, they can save themselves the trouble and get it here , it is free https://www.gutenberg.org/

I totally undersand what you are saying. Initially, the original project used local text-to-speech, but was less than perfect, slower and cpu-costly.

You can check it out here https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sapo

Once a FOSS solution gets better and more usable, swapping the tts conversion is not a great deal.