twestival
a perl script which reads out your tweets for you, no reading involved!
- Files:
• twestival.p
- Screenshots:
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- What it does
This simple script will pull in your twitter stream and pipe the tweets through a speech synthesis tool. It runs under Mac with no additional software needed, on Linux you may need to install festival.
This is a read only script, there is no way to tweet from it.
- Instructions
• Mac
• save the file (on the left) somewhere on your computer
• open terminal (Applications | Utilities | Terminal)
• change to the directory you downloaded it to to where you have saved the file, eg "cd Downloads" will put you into your Downloads folder
• type: perl twestival.p
• it will ask for your twitter username and password
• Linux
• save the file (on the left) somewhere on your computer
• open terminal
• type: echo "test" | festival --tts
• if you do not have festival you will need to install it
• once installed, follow the instructions above