Monthly Archives: July 2009

This is a small Bash script that downloads your friends statuses and reads them aloud using the Festival speech synth. You need to download some packages first. On Ubuntu do: sudo apt-get install curl xmlstarlet festival After installing the command is: curl -s -u twitterusername:twitterpassword 'http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=5' | xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//status' -v 'user/screen_name' -o [...]