Announcement Bot
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CalendarAnnouncer
Github Page
https://github.com/pawl/CalendarAnnouncer/
Project Details
- A python project that announces events from Google Calendar over Dallas Makerspace's announcement system using Google's TTS webservice.
- Currently installed on the windows server at DMS.
IRC Version (Failed)
Project Goal
- Give the ability for people and programs to make announcements at DMS.
Project Details
- I'm using this program: https://github.com/eastein/announce
- Announce is a bot made by someone from another hackerspace called Pumping Station One for their Tardis replica.
- It will do text to speech when it is sent a command over IRC, and it can play sounds when you refer to an MP3 already on the system.
- Announce is installed on a Raspberry Pi sitting on top of the Will Call Machine, and it is attached to some speakers.
- It's using a wifi module to connect to the internet, this may be contributing to the instability.
- It uses linux's festival to do Text-To-Speech.
- Ask Paul Brown for the password to the raspberry pi if you want to mess with it.
Instructions for Installing Announce
http://paulsprogrammingnotes.blogspot.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-text-to-speech-irc-service.html
Progress
It will work, but it's not stable for more than about a day.
Problems
- The IRC bot disconnects sometimes and we need to add the ability to reconnect.
- The voices could use some improvement.
Improvement Ideas
- Allow it to play music by giving it a link to a grooveshark playlist.
