https://github.com/tejasbubane/newsreader

Reads out news for you
https://github.com/tejasbubane/newsreader

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Reads out news for you

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tejasbubane/newsreader
• Owner: tejasbubane
• Created: 2012-12-27T16:46:08.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-08-09T06:28:19.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-25T09:51:26.029Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 54.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
## What is newsreader? ##

Newsreader is a python script that fetches the RSS feeds from

IndianExpress for the latest news, uses espeak to read out loud that news feed.

    Voice used: mbrola-en1

    News courtesy: RSS feeds by IndianExpress

## Requirements ##

    espeak, mbrola and mbrola-en1 voice, pyttsx

## TODO ##

Run the install.sh file once before running the script to meet all

requirements. (this is a onetime run)

Finally run read_news.py each time you want to listen to the news or

follow the tip below.

## Tip ##

You can use crontab to schedule the newsreader to read news every hour.

First make the read_news.py executable by:

    chmod +x read_news.py

Then run the following command:

    EDITOR="gedit" crontab -e

And add the following line to that file and save.

     */60 * * * * /home/tejas/espeak.py

60 is for the news to be read every 60minutes.

Check if the crontab is successfully added by

    crontab -l

You will get to hear news every hour.

## Created By ##

Tejas Bubane ( tejasbubane@gmail.com )

Any suggestions/bugs feel free to mail me or tweet @tejas_bubane.

## Licence ##

    Covered under GNU-GPL v3.0.

    NO WARRANTY IS PROVIDED.

More info at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt