IRC bot that notifies via libnotify popups and festival text-to-speech converter

freenode.yml

conn_info:
    server: irc.freenode.net
    port: 6667
    channels:
        - '#foo'
        - '#bar'
    nick: foobot
    username: foobot
    name: defender of the universe
    ignore_list:
        - redbot
        - robot
        - srjk
    charset: utf-8
    #ssl: 1

ironbot.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl
package IronBot;
use base qw(Bot::BasicBot);
use strict;
use warnings;
use YAML::XS qw(LoadFile);

die "usage: $0 config.yml\n" unless @ARGV;

# Callback that gets called whenever something is said
sub said {
    my ($self, $params) = @_;
    my ($body, $who, $channel) = @$params{qw(body who channel)};
    open my $festival, '| festival --tts';
    print $festival "$body\n";
    system 'notify-send', "$channel - $who", $body;
    return;
}

my $bot = IronBot->new(%{LoadFile($ARGV[0])->{conn_info}});
$bot->run();

To install dependencies:
cpan Bot::BasicBot POE::Component::SSLify
aptitude install libnotify-bin festival

POE::Component::SSLify is only needed if you want to connect to an irc server via ssl.

Usage:
./ironbot freenode.yml