DJ is now available for download. I went ahead and made a Cygwin environment for it so you can run it directly on your Windows based playout system.
DJ is now available for download. I went ahead and made a Cygwin environment for it so you can run it directly on your Windows based playout system.
DJ is a script that generates dynamic text to speech reports from an unlimited domain of input text for part15 radio stations and other uses. No knowledge of Linux is required to use the basic features of this package, the base configuration is easily configured with a prompt-driven menu.
Current reports it can generate:
* Gas prices from gasbuddy.com
* Current weather from weather.com
* AP News from public RSS feeds
* News from Slashdot headlines
* News from Russia Today's English RSS feed
* USGS earthquake report by region
* Movie listings via Google by zip-code (based on theaters near a given zip-code)
Features:
* Generates spoken audio from text input sources and websites
* Mixes in randomly chosen background music if desired
* Outputs to either mp3 or wav formats (mp3 is prefered)
* Chooses random sentences from a phrase book file for dynamic reports
Ex: "And now the 1680AM gas prices from around town" and "What a fine $SEASON day for gas, prices that is"
* Garble protection - the script tries to detect errors in html processing and aborts gracefully
Ex: When a website changes their HTML the DJ will announce "Danger! Will Robinson" rather than treat your listeners to the sound of raw HTML being fed into a text2speech engine.
* Script, modules, and support files are self-documented for easy customization
* Modular design allows easy addition of new content
* Has easily updated dictionaries to assist the text-to-speech software pronounce words correctly
Ex: "St." becomes "street", "911" becomes "nine eleven" rather than "nine hundred eleven"
* Experimental support for CGI streaming output
* 12 English speaking voices plus 1 male voice for speaking Spanish
Download site: http://ibmgeek.shacknet.nu/ocho/dj
Demo reports: http://ibmgeek.shacknet.nu/ocho/demo
Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are all welcome, contact me via PM. Thanks!
-dosman