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Talking twitter

This is for Mac OS X only, sorry folks.

I saw the funny command line interface to speech at Nerdlogger. Try this to play some tunes:


say -v Cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"

If you are brave enough, copy’n'paste the snippet below, replace USER and PASSWORD with your twitter account and it will read out loud the latest tweets of your friends.


curl -s -u user:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml | grep "<text>\|<screen_name>" | sed -e 's/&#228;/ä/' -e 's/&#246;/ö/' -e 's/&#252;/ü/' -e 's/<text>\(.*\)<\/text>/\1 from /' -e 's/<screen_name>\(.*\)<\/screen_name>/\1. . . . /' | say

Still a one liner ;)

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4 Responses to “Talking twitter”

  1. sma Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 19:26

    cool… my favorite is the “silly song” ;)

  2. Dave Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 04:49

    Why MAC only? Isn’t there a a curl pgm clone for windows too?

  3. Alex Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 07:21

    Hi Dave,
    yes, there is a curl for Windows, but there is no ’say’ for windows. At least not built-in. What do you mean with ‘pgm’?
    Cheers,
    Alex

  4. Dave Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 08:19

    Oh I see. I don’t use curl much so thanks for the information.

    Sorry, pgm = program.

    I hope to get a MC soon so will try this idea out.

    Thanks..Dave

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