Giant Robot

This is a very silly Voice Synthesis Plugin for WordPress. It makes the webserver speak the viewed page title out loud. It's about six lines long and deserves to be. I hope it makes you laugh like it did me.

It uses OSX 10.3 (or later) 'say' command out of the box. If you aren't using OSX, simply alias 'say' to your favourite commandline voice synth (festival etc). Haha, if you've played with festival you already know just how easy that is.

Expect this to murder any busy webserver with voice synth overload. Has great potential for driving OSX hosting providers insane, but that's not why I coded it. You have all been warned.

Download (rename to xbsay.php and drop in plugins dir)

If you want this clientside, I would be happy to code a version of this that synthesises the blog entry as voice into an MP3 file that lets clients 'listen' to the posting entry, rather than having the voice on the webserver. Ask me: info@giantrobot.co.nz.