tldr; Podcast of well-spoken robots reading recent news, here's how to listen in iTunes: http://i.imgur.com/67VFszI.png<p>Here's the podcast link you see in that pic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8948326/podcast/index.rss<p>FADE FROM BLACK - COMMERCIAL GUY SPEAKS<p>Is this you?<p>(Imagine a frumpy looking fellow sitting at a computer screen, trying desperately to type in CNN.com or FoxNews.com or NPR.org or RealUltimatePower.net into his browser, but accidentally spilling a can of paint all over himself instead. [cue sad sounding trumpet] )<p>Reading the news is hard! Wouldn't it be better if robots read the news to you?<p>Now they can!<p>Introducing "Robots Reading The News"! The podcast that has my mom saying:<p>"Boy, my son is lazy!"<p>And my dad saying:<p>"Who would ever want to listen to a robot read the news?"<p>With reviews like that, you've gotta try it. Just follow the instructions at the top of the post.<p>ORDER NOW - ROBOTS ARE STANDING BY!!!!<p>I built it using Node with: request, cheerio, unfluff (parsing out articles) and say libraries. Python's sumy for NLP summarization plus some text thesaurus spinning, and Ruby's dropcaster for RSS creation in Dropbox.<p>request
https://www.npmjs.com/package/request<p>cheerio
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio<p>unfluff
https://www.npmjs.com/package/unfluff<p>say
https://www.npmjs.com/package/say<p>sumy
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sumy<p>dropcaster
https://github.com/nerab/dropcaster
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