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Anonradio IRC Streaming Show of Awesome | |
March 13th, 2018 | |
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IRC chat comes to life as an anonradio show! | |
(Credit to cat for giving me the idea [0]) | |
[0] cat's thread on Mastodon | |
How it could work: | |
1. An IRC bot sits in #anonradio on sdf. (Theoretically it could | |
be done on com, where there is more talky traffic for | |
anonradio, but I have no idea how to interface with it) | |
2. When the show goes live, anonbot takes the text each user | |
says and pipes it into "say" using a different unique voice | |
styling for each user. Here it would be nice to assign some | |
voices to more regular speakers. I'm not sure how many voices | |
say has available. | |
3. Vocal streams are sent up to anonradio's stream via | |
liquidsoap or whatever other client can handle it. | |
4. We all laugh and type silly things at each other for an hour | |
and let the robots speak for us. | |
Now for the challenges: | |
1. I have no idea how to program an IRC bot. I think I just saw | |
a post about it on Lobste.rs though, so I can go fishing for | |
that. | |
2. I don't have an anonradio show. SNOWDUSK, PLAES HALP [1] | |
3. I barely have any understanding or capability with liquidsoap | |
or any other streaming software. It seems like it should be | |
trivial to have an empty stream going that just waits to pipe | |
in "say" stuff, but I've got no idea where to start. Anyone | |
out there know any better? | |
4. No one talks in #anonradio. Maybe that would change if there | |
were a bot that made you sound silly on the internet? | |
[1] PLAES HALP | |
The challenges aren't insurmountable but I'd welcome help. Hell, | |
I'd welcome someone else swooping in and building the whole thing. | |
I really just want to participate. ;) | |
What say you, Gophers? Is this worth making a thing? |