eathquake.gem plugin to speech tweets

say.rb

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

require 'shellwords'
require 'uri'

Earthquake.init do
  output_filter do |item|
    text = item["text"]

    if text
      screen_name = item['user']['screen_name']
      text = text.
        dup.
        force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT").
        gsub(URI.regexp(['http', 'https']), '')

      system("say -v alex #{screen_name} >/dev/null 2>&1")

      text.split(/\s+/).each do |str|
        system("say -r 200 -v #{str =~ /^[\w\d]+$/ ? 'Kathy' : 'kyoko' } #{Shellwords.escape(str)} 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>&1")
      end
    end

    true
  end
end