Comments on: Talking Linux RSS Alarm Clock

By: 10 Things a Power User Will Love about Linux | Random Musings

10 Things a Power User Will Love about Linux | Random Musings — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:00:52 +0000

[...] read to me as I got ready. With Linux, setting this up was pretty basic. See my other blog post Talking Linux RSS Alarm Clock if you’re curious how I strung together several off-the-shelf components to create this app [...]

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:01:57 +0000

Rich,

It looks like you dont have ElementTree installed. There’s a link above — http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm#installation — this is some instructions on installing it. Its been a while for me, but I think its basically just putting some files in the correct location and running a few install commands.

If you run into any trouble, just Google for “installing python modules” or something like that.

Good luck!
AJ

By: rich

rich — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:17:47 +0000

What version of Python are you using? I am getting this error when running….

SyntaxError: invalid token
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “get_news.py”, line 10, in
from elementtree.ElementTree import parse
ImportError: No module named elementtree.ElementTree

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:35:14 +0000

@Sean: I haven’t tried this yet, but OSX has a ’say’ command in Terminal that works GREAT. To try it, just open Terminal and type: say “Hello World”

I’m sure you can set it up to read from a file, just like festival.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:58:34 +0000

Any ideas on how to get this kind of thing working for OS X? I have python and cron already, but the festival thing might be a little more tricky. Is there a way to set up the speech thing with Automator or another Mac speech thing?

Can’t wait to get cracking…

-S