Caller ID tools

Description

I thought it would be fun to have my computer say who was calling using the festival text-to-speech system. This system is by no means "public". I have just put up the files I made in case someone would like to use them as foundation on your own system. They are not likely to work "as is".

The basic idea is that cidd (caller ID daemon) listens to the modem and TCP port 5001. (I have the modem attached to a computer that is not my main workstation.) phoned takes the parsed messages from cidd on its standard input and maps phone numbers to names and finally synthesizes the speech to /dev/dsp.

Since the phoned program itself does no network connections, you need to provide the socket data on its stdin yourself. Depending on your system, there are a number of ways of doing that:

• If you use the GNU Bash shell, you can use its built-in network functionality and start phoned through this command line: phoned </dev/tcp/hostname/5001
• If you have netcat installed, you can use it like this: nc hostname 5001 | phoned
• If none of these methods are available to you and you cannot think of anything else, you can use the sockio program provided on this page. The sockio program (which is useful for other things, as well) works a bit like netcat, although it does not take symbolic hostnames. Use it to run phoned through this command line: sockio w in s ip-addr:5001 | phoned

Files

• cidd.c
• sockio.c
• phoned (perl script)

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