Category:	PerlMonks Clients
Author/Contact Info	Joe Stewart aka httptech
Description:	Speech interface to chatterbox, using festival server for the text-to-speech processing. You need to have the festival daemon running and install the Speech::Festival module. Since it's based on ZZamboni's Chatterbox Client you will need to download his module as well.
#!/usr/bin/perl # monktalk.pl - Talking Perl Monks # By Joe Stewart # Mainly just a hack to the sample driver program for PerlMonksChat.pm # by Diego Zamboni, May 2000. # # Use: # monktalk.pl -l Username # Asks for your password. Stores cookies in ~/.pm-cookie. # This is only necessary the first time you use it. After that it + uses # the cookie automatically. # Type messages to send # Type /checkoff <number> to remove personal messages (this is the equ +ivalent # of checking on them in the web page). # use strict; use PerlMonksChat; use IO::Select; use Text::Wrap qw(wrap); use Speech::Festival; $| = 1; $SIG{'INT'} = \&endit; my $festival = new Speech::Festival; conn $festival || warn "Could not connect to festival: $!"; my $user; my $passwd; my $usecolor=1; my $color_username=""; my $color_personalmsg=""; my $color_sysmsg=""; my $color_normal=""; if ($ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] eq "-l") { shift @ARGV; $user=shift @ARGV or die "User expected as argument to -l\n"; print "Password? "; $passwd=<STDIN>; chomp $passwd; } my $period=shift @ARGV || 10; if ($usecolor) { eval "use Term::ANSIColor"; unless ($@) { $color_username=color('BOLD GREEN'); $color_personalmsg=color('YELLOW BOLD'); $color_sysmsg=color('RED'); $color_normal=color('reset'); } } my $p=PerlMonksChat->new(); $p->add_cookies; if ($user) { $p->login($user, $passwd); } my $s=IO::Select->new; $s->add(\*STDIN); while (1) { my @lines = map { s/^(<[^>]+>)/$color_username$1$color_normal/; s/^(\(\d+\)\s*\*.*)$/$color_personalmsg$1$color_normal +/; wrap("", "\t", "$_\n") } $p->getnewlines(1); for (@lines) { print; &speak_to_me($_); } my @ready=$s->can_read($period); if (@ready) { foreach (@ready) { my $line=<$_>; chomp $line; if ($line =~ /^\/?(checkoff|co)\s+/ && (my @ids=($line=~/(\d+) +/g))) { $p->checkoff(map { 'deletemsg_'.$_ } @ids); print $color_sysmsg, "* Done *", $color_normal,"\n"; } elsif ($line =~ /^\s*\/quit\s*$/) { exit; } else { $p->send($line); } } } } sub speak_to_me($) { my $text = shift; $text =~ s/^.*?\s+//; request $festival "(SayText \"$text\")"; } sub endit { print "Disconnecting from Festival: "; disconnect $festival; exit; }