Since I wanted to "sit" on  some IRC channels here at Mashed and rather than flit channels or waste screen estate I decided to do a short hack to listen to the channel. As a hack for mashed, it does the following things:

• It's IRC bot
• It joins 3 channels - #kamtest, #kamaelia & #mashed
• It listens to the channel

Anything that anyone says is then spoken (via espeak) by the bot. ie speech synth.

You can find the code here:

• https://kamaelia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kamaelia/trunk/Sketches/MPS/IRCSpeakerBot.py