![]() I'm going to go into Finder here and then go to the Computer level and in the Hard drive, System, Library, I can look for the Sounds folder. To get a sound to play we can find a sound we have on our hard drive or we can use one of the system sounds. To do that we're going to use the command afplay. What we're going to do is we're going to use something called Crontab which is the way commands run on a regular schedule. But if you want it to play a sound or wanted to do it every ten minutes or twenty minutes or something then you're going to have to create your own. That's fine if you want it to actually speak the time and you want to do it at one of those intervals. So in System Preferences, under Date & Time, Clock, you have the ability to set Announce the time and have it speak the time on the hour and half hour or quarter hour. Join us and get exclusive content at /patreon. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a community of supporters. ![]() Let's use the Terminal to create a custom chime for a Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Creating A Custom Chime On Your Mac With Crontab at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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