Re: [asterisk-biz] [asterisk-users] $20 Bounty

It's conceivable that the combined effort of these two responders

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: > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:51:15 -0500 > From: David Backeberg <dbackeberg@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] $20 Bounty > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > 	<asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Message-ID: > 	<3de056a30903031951o60d6b94u3ebd87205ac64c54@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:25 PM, David Backeberg <dbackeberg@gmail.com> wrote: > > exten => 123,s,1 Playback(enterzipcode) > exten => 123,s,n Read(zip||5) > exten => 123,s,n System(wget http://pathtoyahooservice${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 <Dean@cognation.net> 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: >> http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=06513 >> >> 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 >> http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php >> >> 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. >> >>