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Steven Hasty  
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 More options May 7 2009, 9:15 am
From: Steven Hasty <steven.ha...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:15:40 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, May 7 2009 9:15 am
Subject: Re: twitter radio, another sneak peak
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Our twitter radio "host" could also solicit calls-in via http://www.tweetcall.com/
and read aloud the ones in @reply.

On May 1, 11:36 am, "Matt L. Hackett" <mlhack...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm definitely a supporter of open source, but at this point it's not enough
> of a well-polished piece of software that I'd feel comfortable having the
> source out there with my name on it. It may get there as I finish up, we'll
> have to see.

> I'll be writing up both a technical and a prose blurb about the project for
> the site, the former explaining how it works. The very simple version is
> that there are three components (one of which is not yet done):
> 1. A service that collects tweets, filters, scrubs, reformats them, and
> saves to a database. Google's Language APIs are used to pick out only
> coherent English tweets, amongst other text things.
> 2. A second service pulls tweets from the database and puts them together
> into a speech-ready form of mark-up (essentially HTML-for-speech-synthesis),
> then feeds this to an open source speech synthesis engine called Festival
> 3. A specially configured web server that serves up processed sound files

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Bradley Hope <bradleyh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > This is very cool. I think we should make it open source --- how
> > exactly does it work, anyway?

> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Zack Sultan <zcsul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > THIS IS SOOOO FUCKING COOL.

> > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Matt L. Hackett <mlhack...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:

> > >> HI all-

> > >> As the new Moon approaches, I wanted to give you all another taste of
> > >> TweetRadio, now more audible, more in English, and with lots of
> > >> complicated nerdy behind-the-scenes improvements that I won't get
> > >> into.

> > >>http://mhackett.net/tweetradio/twradio_beta_slt_sable2.mp3[links to an MP3]

> > >> Feedback is appreciated. Also, if you have any more ideas for the
> > >> "stock phrases" that are used to make the feed more radio-call-in-
> > >> like, that would be helpful. (For example, right now these are things
> > >> like "___ issued a statement that ___" and "Here we have a shout out
> > >> from ___ in ____ to ____, ____.").

> > >> Cheers,
> > >> -- Matt


 
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