ITP Spring Show 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2-6pm & Monday, May 11, 5-9 pm
 

Sanjay Papinazath

Twitter Radio

A broadcast of the twitter public time line using text to speech.

http://www.sanjaypapinazath/twitter_radio.html

Classes
Programming from A to Z


Using Java the public time line is scraped from twitter and converted from text to speech and broadcast live online.

MC Kevin16 will be spittin out tweets live from the 4th floor for you listening pleasures.

Background
Java Free TTS library

Audience
People on twitter or as @THE_REAL_SHAQ would say the twitteronians.

User Scenario
Your at work and want to follow twitter, but don't feel like reading, turn to twitter radio for listening to the tweets by MC Kevin16 with a little background beat.

Implementation
- Eclipse to execute Java
- Java to scrape and convert from text to speech
- Nicecast to broadcast live

Conclusion
- Java is not easy
- text to speech is not easy
- there are way too many tweets every second