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Created October 24, 2014 14:15
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Speaking through windows Voice API
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speak.rb
def speak sentence
sentence = sentence.gsub /'/, "''"
`powershell.exe -c $speaker = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice; $speaker.Speak('#{sentence}');`
end
speak "Hello."
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It only speaks the last 5 tweets of the user you put in, but I know somewhere in their api you can change how many it returns.

Also, I had to use the OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE hack to get it going because I don't have things setup right.

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