Spoken notification of new mail
Todd Ditchendorf has written an AppleScript which, when attached to a rule in Apple Mail, will speak the name and sender’s email address. By default “Victoria” does the talking, but you can set it to any of OS X’s voices by editing the script.
Todd provides instructions on his blog for setting up the rule to launch the script. I’ve been running it for fifteen minutes without problems. Very clever. Personally, there are two things that I would change:
- I would open up the script in Script editor and change the default text of the alert.
- I would restrict the rule to match - say - only someone important like my wife. You can have too much of a good thing (the script, not the wife).
The code and instructions are available on Todd’s blog, Ditchnet.org.
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October 30th, 2005 at 10:17 am
[...] So many notification options exists for Apple Mail — “loud” ones like iAlert or MailAppetizer, discreet ones like MailUnreadStatusBar, spoken ones like the Announce Mail or Spoken Sender Applescripts — that it is possible to overlook Mail’s built-in notification features. [...]