RE: [Asterisk-Users] Driving direction sent to callers mobile phone viatext/sms ?

2005-06-23 Thread Dean Collins








Great idea but can I ask how you intend to do the location/destination
entry?



Did you see my other email a little while ago about potentially using
speech recognition for this process?



Ive copied the original email below.



Cheers,

Dean











From: Dean Collins 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:11
AM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: Asterisk Google API
applications - $4500 bounties available



In conjunction with my last post on Tellme I want to write
another suggestion for an application I had.



I dont know if you guys have come across Google Gas http://www.ahding.com/cheapgas




But basically it is an application that this guy has
developed using the Google API to search an online database on gas prices in
your area. 



One of my strong beliefs about how Asterisk is going to
leave the Commercial IP-PBX vendors behind is by leveraging the
open source community to write voice driven applications for Asterisk. The
weather app written for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is great example. (http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3004652
the WAF on this was worth setting up asterisk alone, she checks this every
morning for NY weather).



I was also hoping that the www.tellme.com and www.studio.tellme.com
tools would also stimulate this area. People should also check out www.angel.com
for other ideas on best of breed speech applications.



The suggestion I would like to make is that someone use the
Google api to write code for a directions application.



You could use Tellme to deliver the current address and the
destination address into the Google API and then use text to speech to read
back the directions. With enough finessing this could compete with any of the
current commercial direction solutions that are out there and because
its asterisk your cost base could be extremely minimal.



Hell you might even get paid for it http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html





Just a suggestion, any thoughts? Are there any other speech
driven apps being used today?



Cheers,

Dean







 -Original Message-

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Dent

 Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2005 3:46 PM

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 Non-Commercial Discussion

 Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Driving direction sent to callers mobile
phone

 viatext/sms ?

 

 Hi,

 I'm wondering firstly
if somebody already did this and what the best

 way might be to go about it.

 

 Basically I want to have a context in * which could just be a
regular

 extension that you can transfer an incoming caller to.

 

 This extension could then do several things, the one bit I need
advise

 on is sending a sms to the

 callers cell/mobile phone with driving directions.

 

 1) Firstly it should check the callers ID and see if they are on a

 cell phone, if so it could jump

 straight to the questions:

 

 would you like driving directions sent to your mobile phone
as a text

 message - press 1 for yes, 2 for no etc

 

 Depending on their input it sends the directions or not.

 

 

 2) If it does not detect they are on a cell phone (in the UK it could

 look for prefix 079* etc)

 then it asks the user if they want to enter their cell phone
number so

 that directions could

 be sent as a SMS, so it then reads the users DTMF codes in and
sends the

 text.

 

 I'm using the fastsms
agi etc from Bayham Systems:

 http://www.bayhamsystems.com/asterisk.html which works well for

 voicemail notifications etc, I figured I could use this to send
the

 directions.

 

 I guess I would need an AGI script to do most of this?

 

 Any pointers most welcome.

 

 thanks

 Mike

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Driving direction sent to callers mobile phone viatext/sms ?

2005-06-23 Thread Mike Dent
Hi Dean

On 6/23/05, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
 
 Great idea but can I ask how you intend to do the location/destination
 entry? 
 

Ahh, I dont think I explained my idea clearly. The directions which
would get sent to the mobile phone are just static/fixed directions.
ie you could call a car showroom and have the basic directions from
maybe the nearest city
texted back to you, nothing too fancy :)


   
 
 Did you see my other email a little while ago about potentially using speech
 recognition for this process? 

Yes I did see your post, very interesting and it got me thinking at
the time about some other similar ideas, most of which I dropped
because I dont have the coding skill.
Many possibilities huh! :)

Mike
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