sound.rb

require 'open3'
require 'open-uri'
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

search = 'rocket science'
results = open "http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?q=#{URI.escape(search)}&per_page=2"

Open3.popen3('say -v Vicki') do |stdin, stdout, stderr|
  stdin << "Virgo results for #{search}..."
  Nokogiri::XML(results).search('.document').each_with_index do |d,i|
    stdin << "Item #{i+1},"
    stdin << "Catalog key, #{d['id'].gsub(/^Doc/,'')},"
    stdin << "Title, #{d.at('.titleField a').text},"
  end
  stdin.close
end