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BuildBunny - Nabaztag notifications for TeamCity

If you're like me, you might be looking for more ways to get feedback about your software's continuous integration build process.  Here's one of my favorites: the BuildBunny plug-in for TeamCity will send build status announcements to a Nabaztag rabbit. 

Version 0.3 has just been posted (look for it on the Downloads page).  This release include several little enhancements to the plug-in, including a patch I contributed that enables you to specify a different Text-To-Speech voice to use for the announcements.  To me, the U.S. voices are the lowest fidelity, while some of the U.K. voices are much easier to understand.  I like "UK-Leonard" and "UK-Penelope".

If you want to find a list of all the voices supported by your rabbit, you can send it a message using its API.  Check for action 9 - "Get a list of all supported languages/voices".

A few months ago I read that Violet, the Nabaztag creator, had filed for bankruptcy.  Anyone know what's going on with them?