Voicemail Remote

Voicemail remote is a complete system to continuously update your voicemail outgoing message with relevant details about your whereabouts:

• Thank you for calling Will, he is in a meeting titled "Lunch with Bob" right now, please leave a message
• Thanks for your call, I'll be back in the office 9am tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th
• Will is in a private meeting until 4pm, please leave a message
• Sorry I missed your call, please leave a message, I'm now in Philadelphia
• Please press one to leave a message or continue listening for my latest Tweets...

It is compatible with EVERY voicemail system and works by generating a sound file, dialing into your voicemail system as you, and playing this file which reprograms your outgoing message.

How it works

First a call script is generated, then this is processed into a single audio file, then this file is played on a phone call to your voicemail system.

Prerequisites include:

• text2wave for *NIX OR say for Mac
• sox command (brew install sox)
• sipcmp (please help with install instructions!)
• php, perl and other script interpreters (needed to run all the examples)

Call script

A speech script is used to customize text which will be read by a synthesized voice on your outgoing message. You can use scripts in any language to generate this file. Some examples are included, please share your own scripts with a pull request!

A dialing script is used to access voicemail system, enter your PIN, and navigate to the "change outgoing message" menu.

Audio processing

This stitches together DTMF tones and synthesized speech as specified by your call script. The output is a single audio file.

Playback

The single audio file above is played into a phone call for your voicemail system. After playback, your outgoing voice message is updated. This process should be run using a cron job on your computer so as to continuously update your outgoing message.