Prounced 'Monk Yack', not 'Monky Ack'...

If you'd like to hear the monkyack.pl script in action, you should be able to connect to www.tinymicros.com:8000. I'm on a pretty narrow pipe, so I can only serve 3 8K audio streams, and still have enough left over to do "real work".

This script demonstrate several things, such as taking the XML chatterbox text, running it through a text to speech converter, and streaming it via an MP3 server.

Because of several factors, the audio is at best, questionable. Running TTS on text like comes out of the chatterbox makes for some difficult pronounciation rules. Coupled with a 8K bit bandwidth, some pretty cruddy MP3 decoders, and it's like listening to bad AM radio.

WinAmp sounds best, but disconnects after about 3 minutes. No idea why, it doesn't give any indicators. XMMS sounds like hell, but stays connected through thick and thin.

This whole thing was really just an experiment, based on a random comment by ar0n. So blame him...

--Chris

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Re: monkyack.pl Notes
by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Apr 12, 2001 at 00:03 UTC
    Try sending your stream to Live365, which can do a repeater for you. That way, you can up it to 16kbps mono for better sound and not have the bandwidth die on you. BUT REMEMBER: It'll give you a server and a port number. Shout the the port number + 1 (aka if it gives you port 12222, shout to port 12223).

    A "Pure Perl" shouter can be built from my reshouter.

    --
    $Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";

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Re: monkyack.pl Notes
by a (Friar) on Apr 12, 2001 at 07:45 UTC
    Er, it should be pronounced "mon-key-yack" though ... I've spent some time on the CB too, ya' know. ;->

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      I really meant to call it 'Radio Free Perlmonks', but forgot when it came time to post it.

      --Chris

      e-mail jcwren
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        A better name (I think of radio clash); meant no offense but monkey-yak slips off the tongue so much more easily and seems ... oddly apt ... eerily accurate ... strangely fitting ... weirdly correct. ;->

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