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

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.

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

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

I stand corrected.

A cron job would not be a bad idea.

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.

Check out basht

Sure, it is a Potatomatic 4000, 2nd edition. No, not Alacrity. Thx though.

I have no idea. On an old potato laptop I tried it on it works ok, if I rush the keys, it is flickering a little.

This is a long list of terminal goodies: https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps/

Also, check the games that I have written, in the same spirit as this one:

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-sudoku

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/wordle

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/ladder

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/mneme

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-mines

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/spelion

Someone should come up with a new distro with the name potatOS, just for cases like this .