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By Abhishek Ghosh June 9, 2011 3:46 pm Updated on June 9, 2011

Talking clock in right click context menu without any software

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After reading this tutorial, you will get an option in the right click context menu, click which your computer will speak the current time by your clock.

The feature of this trick is:

 

  • The talking clock option is from right click menu with custom icon and position
  • On clicking it, your computer will speak the current time
  • No software installation is needed

Here is the right click menu:

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Talking clock in right click context menu without any software

 

Let us start to speak about the trick.

 

Creating the vbs script to let your computer speak the current time

 

Open Notepad. Write the following things for making your your computer speak and do the things:

 

Set Sapi = Wscript.CreateObject(“SAPI.SpVoice”)

Sapi.speak “The current time is”

if hour(time) > 12 then
Sapi.speak hour(time)-12
else
if hour(time) = 0 then
Sapi.speak “12”
else
Sapi.speak hour(time)
end if
end if

if minute(time) < 10 then
Sapi.speak “o”
if minute(time) < 1 then
Sapi.speak “clock”
else
Sapi.speak minute(time)
end if
else
Sapi.speak minute(time)
end if

if hour(time) > 12 then
Sapi.speak “P.M.”
else
if hour(time) = 0 then
if minute(time) = 0 then
Sapi.speak “Midnight”
else
Sapi.speak “A.M.”
end if
else
if hour(time) = 12 then
if minute(time) = 0 then
Sapi.speak “Noon”
else
Sapi.speak “P.M.”
end if
else
Sapi.speak “A.M.”
end if
end if
end if

 

Save the file as Talking Clock.vbs for the example above and do not forget to change the file type from text to All files from drop down menu in Notepad before saving it. Obviously, you can save with any name you like, but you have to change the name in registry file in second step as well.

 

The red texts are what the computer will speak. You can change as you like.

Do not change other things if you do not know programming.

Double click to test the file. It should bring the input window and make your computer speak the current time.

After this step, you can use it as a standalone program; for that follow the way we mentioned in other tutorials.

 

Registry file for adding the talking clock option in Windows 7 right click context menu

 

Place the vbs file created in the previous step at the root of C drive.

Open Notepad, copy paste the following and modify as per your need:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellTalking Clock]
“Icon”=”C:WindowsSystem32Narrator.exe”
“Position”=”Bottom”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellTalking Clockcommand]
@=”Wscript.exe “C:Talking Clock.vbs“”

 

The blue text is the name you want to see in your right click menu. You name it as you like.

The orange text determines the position of the menu. You can use Top, Middle instead of Bottom.

The red text dictates the name and location of the vbs file.

The green text is the location of the icon.

Save the file as Add Talking Clock.reg and do not forget to change the file type from text to All files from drop down menu in Notepad before saving it. Name does not matter here at all. You can save as you like.

Now, double click the reg file and accept the security warnings and you will see the option in right click context menu when clicked on a folder or any empty place inside folder or Windows 7 desktop.

 

Removal of talking clock option from the right click menu:

 

Add a minus sign before the H starts after the third bracket; like [-HKEY_CLASSES…. to all where there is HKEY and save it (with some good name) as reg file and run it.

Obviously, you might delete the bat files manually too.

 

It will work on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.

 

Downloads for this speak and shutdown from right click tutorial:

 

As usually all the required files are here for the talking clock option is for your download.

The rar file is password protected, type thecustomizewindows.com as the password.

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Comments

  1. AvatarAmit kumar says

    June 9, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Hi Abhishek ,Thanks for the tutorial

  2. AbhishekAbhishek says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    Hello Amit, welcome and I am glad that you liked it :)

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Talking clock in right click context menu without any software," in The Customize Windows, June 9, 2011, January 26, 2021, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/06/talking-clock-in-right-click-context-menu-without-any-software/.

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