News Whisperer

whisper.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'
puts "Let me read you a story..."
strings = []
url = 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml'
open(url) do |rss|
  feed = RSS::Parser.parse(rss)
  feed.items.each do |item|
    strings.push "#{item.title}"
  end
end
string = strings.join ' '
`say -r 20 -i -v Whisper \"#{string}\"`