Say a Text File to a AIF

[jay (support)]

This python script should work - I'm unclear why it's needed as an AIF file so I just have the Indigo Server say the article titles.

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import urllib2
import xml.dom.minidom

f = urllib2.urlopen("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20title%20from%20rss%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Frss%2Frss.php%3Fid%3D1001%22&diagnostics=true")
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(f)
f.close()
sayString = ""
for titleElem in dom.getElementsByTagName("title"):
   sayString += "%s\n" % titleElem.firstChild.data

# Unclear if you really need it spoken to a file
# so I'll just tell the server to speak the string
indigo.server.speak(sayString)

You'll probably want to run this as an external script so that if the network connection is slow the script won't get killed prematurely.

Nice! That's certainly more elegant than the gobbledygook sed stuff!

Very nice, thanks a bunch! I have my Squeezebox Radio do most my announcements etc.
hence the aif file.

Thanks,

Carl

[jay (support)]

This one does the same thing but saves it into the specified file - just change the path to the output file. If the path has spaces in it I think you'll need to precede them with a backslash.

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import urllib2
import xml.dom.minidom
import subprocess

f = urllib2.urlopen("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20title%20from%20rss%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Frss%2Frss.php%3Fid%3D1001%22&diagnostics=true")
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(f)
f.close()
sayString = ""
for titleElem in dom.getElementsByTagName("title"):
   sayString += "%s.\n" % titleElem.firstChild.data
   
# So we need to call the "say" command-line tool to
# record the string spoken into an .aif file
subprocess.call(["say", "-o", "/PATH/TO/RSS.aif", sayString])

Thanks. Curious about something... I've been getting the "rest query" to use in my scripts from this site http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=select%20title%20from%20rss%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A//www.jokesareawesome.com/rss/random/%22

Works fine for just titles but am not seeing how to have the body text included as well. Is that a different process?

Thanks,

Carl

[jay (support)]

No clue - I just used your URL, I know nothing about your data source...

Thanks Jay...it's always something. Trying to have Indigo read a random joke when prompted.

Carl