Talking breaking news application

Posted by on Apr 8, 2010 in AIR | 4 comments

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).

4 Comments

  1. Dhaya
    April 8, 2010

    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
    April 8, 2010

    Neat.

  3. Gilles Vandenoostende
    April 8, 2010

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

  4. flashopen
    April 8, 2010

    Yep, it is cool.

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