If you're anything like me, you've probably missed appointments due to your bad memory. Well now there's now excuse, you can use your trusty basic phone to recieve reminders with reminder calls from Asterisk.
My new script, AsteriCal, will poll your Google Calendar's iCal URL and call you to remind you of upcoming events. Find out more here
You may have heard of the site Say No To 0870. It's a UK database of mappings of Company Names and their 0870/0844/0845 numbers to their geographic equivalents. Using the geographic equivlalents is a good idea - they're cheaper and included in a lot of plans' free minutes. Some companies can detect people calling their geographical numbers. Prefixing the number with 141 to withhold your number sometimes beats the system; sometimes it doesn't.
I thought it'd be a good idea to integrate the Say No To 0870 database with my Asterisk PBX, so that when I dial a number beginning with 08, Asterisk will actually call the geographical number with my Trunk provider. I achieved this using Asterisk AGI and Python. I screenscraped the Say No To 0870 website (theres no API, nor did they reply to my email) and untangled the HTML with Beautiful Soup.
How to setup Festival with Asterisk for arbitrary text-to-speech in your PBX.
Whilst playing with asterisk, I wanted the feature of text-to-speech, so the PBX can read things such as caller IDs.
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