CowPhone

Call a phone number, say something, get an email with your words in a cowsay

This was a demo used for the 2012 Cluecon presentation Stupid Things You Can Do With VoIP.

Installation

Install Jester

Symlink your cowphone checkout to the Jester profile directory as cowphone, something like:

ln -s /path/to/cowphone/checkout /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/jester/profiles/cowphone

Add the phrase file to your language config (probably conf/lang/en/en.xml):

<X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="include" data="$${base_dir}/scripts/jester/profiles/cowphone/phrases.xml"/>

Note: this assumes you're using the default sounds, otherwise adjust accordingly.

Add this extension to your dialplan, replacing EMAIL with a valid email address:

<!-- Internal extension for CowPhone -->
<extension name="cowphone">
  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^cowphone$" break="on-true">
    <action application="answer"/>  
    <action application="sleep" data="1000"/>
    <action application="lua" data="jester/jester.lua cowphone cowphone EMAIL"/>
    <action application="hangup"/>  
  </condition>
</extension>

Set up a transfer to that extension.

For the speech to text portion of the demo to work, you must configure an application at the AT & T Developer Portal. Be sure to enable the 'Speech To Text' API when creating the app, and note the app key and secret. Then, Edit conf.lua, adding values for att_app_key and att_app_secret.

Usage

Call the number you configured. Say something. Hang up. Enjoy your cowsay.

Bugs

No bugs, only marmots.