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Rebotcast Reads ´óÏó´«Ã½ Tv Anytime Listings

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| 17:52 UK time, Wednesday, 5 October 2005

From the guy who brought you "Rebotcast reads ´óÏó´«Ã½ News | World | UK Edition", I now bring you "Rebotcast Reads ´óÏó´«Ã½ Tv Anytime Listings". This is a speech-synthesized reading of the listings. For my prototype, I have limited my scope to the "Documentary" genre in the radio listings.

This code owes a sincere debt to Leon Brocard, who wrote a series of Perl modules to parse TV Anytime listings.

The podcast is updated every day by downloading the last listings, using a "cron" job. There are some obvious improvements to make, such as including the times of each radio program. I just wanted to get a placeholder up there before the deadline.

Another improvement, more long term, would be to give users the ability to design their own feeds, by inputting parameters in a web form.

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