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AppleScript to announce sender

AppleScriptGeorge Sudarkoff has written an AppleScript that will announce the name of an email’s sender on its arrival in Apple Mail.

As he says: “It pauses iTunes if it’s playing, speaks the name of the sender if the message is not marked as junk and then resumes the playback.”

The code and instructions for setting this up in Mail.app can be found on his blog, What I Write is What I See .

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10 Responses to “AppleScript to announce sender”

  1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » A bouncing Dock icon (or not) says:
    October 30th, 2005 at 9:49 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. [...]

  2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup says:
    October 30th, 2005 at 7:50 pm

    [...] This week saw more tips than plug-ins and helpful apps. Still, I’ve added Snail Mail and addressbook2pine to the new Address Book section and George Sudarkoff’s “Announce Sender” AppleScript to the Added Functionality section. [...]

  3. Tim says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 2:04 am

    The link to “What I write is what I see” blog for instructions on announcing the sender script thing comes back with “not found”

  4. Tim says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 2:13 am

    Ah, George has tweaked his site. Thanks for letting me know.

    Try it again now.

  5. loosegroove says:
    June 21st, 2006 at 9:15 am

    The link mentioned is still broken.

  6. Tim says:
    June 21st, 2006 at 9:26 am

    Sorry about that. George is shifting over to Movable Type and slowly transferring over posts from his old blog. When it reappears, I’ll fix the link.

  7. George says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 7:46 pm

    Sorry guys, my weblog was a total mess for quite some time. Here’s the working link.

  8. Tim says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    The blog looks nice now though. Thanks.

  9. Dennis Leavell says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    The Link for the email announcer is still not working. I still get an error.

    Thanks,
    Dennis

  10. George Sudarkoff says:
    November 30th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

    Yeah, after toying with various blogging platforms I caved in and moved my blog to TypePad. Unfortunately, I have no control over permalinks there, but I also don’t have to worry about uptime, updates and all that stuff. Here’s the latest (and hopefully final) link.

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