[Xastir] A challenge

[Kurt Freiberger]

Curse you!  Now that I know about the say command, it's going to make me use it in various nefarious ways.

73/Kurt

On Mar 30, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of the rocket launching guys has written an application that narrates his rocket flights in real time. For a sample of what it sounds like go here;
>> 
>>  http://www.vernk.com/PhotosOfAngelfire.htm
>> 
>> What I'd like to do is have Xastir feed a script that will do the same thing to track an object, in my case a balloon flight.
>> 
>> Anyone have any idea where I could start to make this happen?
> 
> I have a bit o' perl that connects to xastir's server port, calculates
> the ascent rate, and says "balloon burst at XYZ feet" when it detects
> the altitude start dropping.  It simply uses the mac OS "say" command
> for text to speech.  I think festival has something similar for linux?
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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Kurt A. Freiberger     Austin, TX	kurt at badgers-hill.net
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