stream-engadget-apple-speech

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

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

messages = {}
first_run = true

loop do
  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/'))
  
  doc.xpath('//div[@class="live_update"]').reverse.each do |live|
    timestamp = live['timestamp']
    if !timestamp.nil?
      if !messages.has_key?(timestamp)
        message = live.content.gsub(/'/,"").gsub(/"/,"")
        messages[timestamp] = message
        puts "Message: #{message}"
        unless first_run
          `say -v Vicki "#{message}"`
        end
      end
    end
  end
  first_run = false
  sleep 20
end