Asterisk + The National Weather Service = Free Weather Reports For 1,000 Cities From Any Touchtone Phone
Whether it’s a quick weather update or a seven-day forecast, you’ll now be able to listen to it from any touchtone phone by dialing 611 and then a three-digit airport code for any of 1,000 cities you’re interested in. All you’ll need is a free Asterisk@Home or TrixBox server, the free Flite speech synthesis engine, our free MySQL database of airport codes and cities in the United States, and, of course, version 2 of our free Asterisk text-to-speech weather application. Here’s how …