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It's conceivable that the combined effort of these two responders <br>
<pre>required less than ten minutes of time, yielding a theoretical pay rate
of $120/hour.
I wonder how much effort went into the other responses.
That will be $6 for my commentary, please.
Folks wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:51:15 -0500
> From: David Backeberg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dbackeberg@gmail.com"><dbackeberg@gmail.com></a>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] $20 Bounty
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> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:25 PM, David Backeberg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dbackeberg@gmail.com"><dbackeberg@gmail.com></a> wrote:
>
> exten => 123,s,1 Playback(enterzipcode)
> exten => 123,s,n Read(zip||5)
> exten => 123,s,n System(wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pathtoyahooservice$">http://pathtoyahooservice$</a>{zip} -o forecast.txt)
> exten => 123,s,n System(wget --post-file forecast.txt -o wav.url)
> exten => 123,s,n System(wget --input-file wav.url -o voice.wav)
> exten => 123,s,n Playback(voice)
>
> exten => 123,h,1 Hangup
>
>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Dean Collins <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Dean@cognation.net"><Dean@cognation.net></a> wrote:
>>
>>> I?ll pay anyone a $20 bounty for someone to replicate the USA Asterisk
>>> Weather App on Tropo.
>>>
>> All you have to do is violate the ToS on a few services:
>> wget the weather from yahoo, for instance:
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=06513">http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=06513</a>
>>
>> Conditions for New Haven, CT at 9:53 pm EST
>> Current Conditions:
>> Fair, 20 F
>> Forecast:
>> Tue - Clear. High: 25 Low: 13
>> Wed - Mostly Sunny. High: 34 Low: 19
>>
>> do a wget post of that output from the previous wget to
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php">http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php</a>
>>
>> do a wget on the wav file that demo generates.
>>
>> It would be nicer if you record a prompt before asking for the
>> zipcode, but it's not strictly necessary.
>>
>> You can paypal me the cash to my email. The legitimate license for
>> AT&T Natural Voices is more than $20, and nothing built into Asterisk
>> for free is going to give you free-form text-to-speech.
>>
>>
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