[Asterisk-Users] festival text for weather report

[Steve Prior]

dean collins wrote:

> Hi Ernie,
> Man I hope you didn't write all of that for me, I feel really bad now, someone posted to the list about 15 mins after I posted with the solution lol- I've already been playing with it for hours working out what other sites I can get it to read from as well.
> 
> Thanks anyway - good practive I guess.
> 
> I'm modifying the festival wikki page once I work out how.

Please add what you ended up with sooner rather than later.  I'm interested in
the same weather forecast as you (in fact I'm in the same forecast region as you),
but I've also been wondering what's around in terms of traffic information.

http://www.hudsonvalleytraveler.com/perl/IncidentCongestionRpt.pl

Might be of interest to you as well, but unfortunatly they only provide the
data in HTML format - I've already emailed them about how easy and useful it
would be to provide XML as well...

My future hope is that I'd set up a DID that I could call from my cell phone
headset using the voice dialing built into the phone, and then get a traffic
report read to me without pressing any phone buttons.  That either means using
a dedicated phone number or getting even a very primitive speech recognition going
to chose between a very limited number of options.

The speech recognition part seems like it's going to be a while (I'd love it
if someone else figures this part out before I get there...)

Steve