Birthday Reminder is a simple Automator program, inteded to be run at startup, that will remind you of important birthdays coming up every week.

When run, It will speak the greeting, “Good Morning! The following people in your address book have birthdays this week.”, then it will speak the names of those people, and the dates of their birthdays.

The included Birthday Reminder workflow allows you to change voice, volume or to adapt this workflow for other purposes.