Tweet-to-Speech script, reading out your timeline. Moved to https://github.com/orithena/tweet-to-speech

tweet-to-speech.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import alsaaudio
from subprocess import call
import twython
import guess_language
from twython import TwythonStreamer
import config
import thread
import uuid
import os
""" config is just a file named config.py next to this script, containing:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = 'your apps consumer key'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'your apps consumer secret'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'your apps oauth access token'
TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET = 'your apps oauth access token secret'
PLAYVOLUME = 75
TTSDEFAULTLANG = 'de-DE'
MIXERID = 'PCM'

You can generate the keys and register your app on apps.twitter.com
"""

speechlock = thread.allocate_lock() 

def say(text, lang=config.TTSDEFAULTLANG):
  fname = "/tmp/picotts-%s.wav" % uuid.uuid1()
  if call(["pico2wave", "-w", fname, "-l", lang, text]) == 0:
    speechlock.acquire()
    mixer = alsaaudio.Mixer(config.MIXERID)
    oldvolume = mixer.getvolume()[0]
    mixer.setvolume(config.PLAYVOLUME)

    call(["aplay", fname])

    mixer.setvolume(oldvolume)
    mixer.close()
    speechlock.release()
    os.unlink(fname)
    

class MyStreamer(TwythonStreamer):
  def on_success(self, data):
    if 'text' in data:
      text = ("%s: %s" % (data['user']['screen_name'], data['text']))

      l = guess_language.guessLanguage(data['text'])
      lang = 'de-DE'
      try:
        lang = {'en': 'en-GB', 'de': 'de-DE', 'es': 'es-ES', 'fr': 'fr-FR'}[l]
      except KeyError:
        pass

      print "%s (%s)" % (text, lang)
      thread.start_new_thread(say, (text, lang))
    else:
      print("unknown notification received:")
      print(data)

  def on_error(self, status_code, data):
    print status_code


twitter = twython.Twython(
            app_key=config.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
            app_secret=config.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
            oauth_token=config.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN,  
            oauth_token_secret=config.TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET)
creds = twitter.verify_credentials()
userid = creds['id_str']

stream = MyStreamer(
            config.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
            config.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
            config.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN,   
            config.TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET)
stream.twitter = twitter
stream.creds = creds

stream.user()