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I’d never thought I would get a tuxdroid but I guess my girlfriend couldn’t have given me a better gift :)

So at start I was trying to make a rpm from the software but it will take me some more work because the actual installation script is quite ugly. I’ll try to clean this up.

Still I couldn’t resist to show how it looks like and I must say I’m really impressed !

This is just a small video of the tuxdroid reading planetmandriva’s rss feed, the last item being a post of Adam Williamson’s blog

I’m amazed by how nice it is when the tuxdroid speaks ! The voice is really understandable and expressive, though it’s a bit strange sometimes to hear it say “slash” or “dash”. However I guess I could hack it a bit, because not everything works so well.
Firstly, it doesn’t handle atom feeds contrary to my regular feed reader, canto but that might not be hard to add support to it since both are written in python, maybe it just lacks bindings to python-feedparser. I also have to make it mark feeds as read, cause at the moment it reads the same entry at each alert.
Secondly, it seems like it doesn’t like my mail server, probably because it has a self-signed certificate, but it works with free’s imap and pop server, I might have a look at it too :)

It also speaks french quite nice, gives the weather forecasts and some other nice things like twitter’s messages.