speakWeather.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
define("type","BBC");
#define("type","DMI");
//define("PLACE",35); //copenhagen
define("PLACE",52); //frankfurt


ob_start();

if (type == "DMI") {
  $str_xml = file_get_contents("http://www.dmi.dk/eng/denmark_forecast.rss");
} elseif (type == "BBC") {
  $str_xml = file_get_contents("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/" . PLACE . "/Next3DaysRSS.xml");
}

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($str_xml);

if (type != "DMI") echo $xml->channel->title . "\n";

foreach($xml->channel->item as $item) {

echo $item->title . "\n";

if (type != "BBC") echo $item->description . "\n";

}

$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$newcon = array();

foreach (explode("\n",$contents) as $line) {
  if (type == "BBC") {
    $line = str_replace("°C",  " degrees Celcius"   ,$line);
    $line = str_replace("°F",  " degrees Fahrenheit",$line);
    $line = str_replace("Min", "Minimum",            $line);
    $line = str_replace("Max", "Maximum",            $line);
    $line = str_replace("Temp","temperature",        $line);
    $line = str_replace(","   ,";",                  $line);
    $line = trim(shell_exec("echo " . escapeshellarg($line) . " | sed -re 's/\(.*\)//'"));
  }
  if ($line != "") $newcon[] = trim($line) . ".";
}

$contents = implode("\n",$newcon);

echo $contents;
$b = "";

for ($i=0; $i<strlen($contents); $i++) {
  $b .= "\\0" . sprintf("%03d",decoct(ord($contents[$i])));
}

shell_exec("echo -ne " . escapeshellarg($b) . " | aoss ~janus/festival/bin/festival --tts");
?>