asterisk users - Jun 2005 - Driving direction sent to callers mobile phone viatext/sms ?

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?

 

I've 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 don't 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 asterisk@home 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 <http://www.tellme.com/>  and
www.studio.tellme.com <http://www.studio.tellme.com/>  tools would also
stimulate this area. People should also check out www.angel.com
<http://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
it's 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-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike Dent
> Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2005 3:46 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - 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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Hi Dean

On 6/23/05, Dean Collins <Dean@collins.net.pr>
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