Can we set up a voice for disconnetion?

[PM]

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> Paste the following into a file and make it executable with chmod +x
>>
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> ping -q -c 3 www.google.com > /dev/null
>> rc=$?
>> if [ ${rc} -ne  0 ]
>> then
>> espeak "Internet connection may be down" >/dev/null 2>&1
>> fi
>>
>
> Would save the file with the name *alert.sh* and I should make it
> executable like this:
> *
> sudo chmod +x alert.sh* (I googled it)
>
> Call this shell script in your crontab as frequently as you'd like to check
>> the connection.
>>
>
> I don't know how to call it in the crontab? (I am new...)
>
>
>> Adjust this ping command to suit your needs.
>>
>
> After learning something, I would try to do this.
>
>
>> Regardless of what happens with ping, we look at the return code and if
>> it's not equal to zero we call espeak with a suitable message. This is where
>> you'd pop your call to an mp3, an alarm noise, fire an email, log into the
>> router and request it to reset itself, etc.
>>
>
> How to set a mp3 song here (if possible)?
>
> This is, as you can see, a simplistic script - you could easily extend it
>> to have multiple attempts before deciding the link was down, or hit multiple
>> sites multiple times before alerting anyone and so forth. No error handling
>> in this thing right now - it's not something I'd deploy to a server at work
>> for example but it shows you the general idea.
>>
>
> Yeah thanks. If I don't open any browser, it would directly intimate me by
> the voice alert...?
>

I did but when I disconnected the INTERNET, this script doesn't run as no
voice came from the PC!
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