But, you''re quite correct that this kind of thing is useful, particularly on telephone based information services. Christopher Moore writes: > From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net> > > When looking at the commercially available voices on cepstral.com, I came > across the demo weather voice. > > Before I re-invent the wheel, I was wondering whether a weather script > exits which would speak the weather conditions and/or forecast for a > particular city/zip code. I do this now by going into the > braille.wunderground.com site in lynx, punching in the zipcode, hitting the > submit button and reading the resulting screens. > > What I'm looking for is a shell script which would retrieve the weather and > send it to flite or some other software synth for spoken output. Once such > a script were developed, a similar thing could be done for, say, stock > quotes. > > I view this as a three step process: > 1. Retrieve the info from the net > 2. edit the results to strip out all the stuff you didn't want to hear, > 3. send the resulting text to festival, flite or a commercial voice. > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
