OT: weather script

[Janina Sajka]

 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
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				Governmental Relations Group
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