Talking breaking news application

by Serge Jespers on 08. Apr, 2010 in AIR

Hi… My name is Serge and I am a news junkie… While there are a lot of breaking news services on Twitter, you can’t always leave your Twitter client running to get the latest breaking news updates (for instance at work or while presenting). In some cases you may still want to stay up to date on any breaking news which is why I started creating this little app last night…

It’s not quite finished yet but almost. I’ll release this when we release AIR2 and will also try to build a Windows version of it (although I am not sure if Windows also has a command line tool for their speech synthesizer).

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14 Responses to “Talking breaking news application”

  1. Dhaya 08. Apr, 2010 at 11:35 am #

    Nice integration with Growl !

    For the voice synthesis, you can try this, it handles text-to-speech in Windows by using an embedded executable : http://nativespeech.googlecode.com/ It also allows you to choose the speaking voice on Mac OS X.

  2. Scott Janousek 08. Apr, 2010 at 3:25 pm #

    Neat.

  3. Gilles Vandenoostende 08. Apr, 2010 at 3:30 pm #

    Cool! What’s your desktop wallpaper? Looks nice.

  4. flashopen 08. Apr, 2010 at 3:57 pm #

    Yep, it is cool.

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  1. Leo van Hamond - 08. Apr, 2010

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  2. Rob McMichael - 08. Apr, 2010

    RT @sjespers: Blogged: Talking breaking news application sneak peek #air http://bit.ly/9buDP1
  3. topsy_top20k_en - 08. Apr, 2010

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  4. George Iosif - 08. Apr, 2010

    RT @sjespers: Blogged: Talking breaking news application sneak peek #air http://bit.ly/9buDP1 – Cool idea :)
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    RT @sjespers: Blogged: Talking breaking news application sneak peek #air http://bit.ly/9buDP1
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  8. Georges Jentgen - 08. Apr, 2010

    RT @sjespers: Talking breaking news application http://bit.ly/d7Gz4S
  9. Joseph Labrecque - 08. Apr, 2010

    This is cool. AIR2 is going to bring down the house. RT @sjespers: Using talking breaking news app all day. I love it! http://bit.ly/d7Gz4S
  10. johncblandii - 08. Apr, 2010

    Talking Talking breaking news application: http://tr.im/UY2G. #clever #adobeair

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