Comments on: It’s TeleYapper 5.0: The Ultimate RoboDialer for Asterisk

By: Graham Wright

Graham Wright — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:40:10 +0000

Ward, what are the plans (if any) to replace Cepstral with GoogleTTS?

[WM: No time at the moment.]

By: Alfred Harding

Alfred Harding — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:54:18 +0000

Does this work with Incredible PBX 11?

By: Michael Babcock

Michael Babcock — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:52:07 +0000

ward, what’s the status on this project? Has any changes, for exampe the ability to record a message to be sent to the list been added yet? #pbxinaflash11 and #incrediblepbx11 on my end…

[WM: No plans for an upgrade at this juncture.]

By: Ramzi

Ramzi — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:42:28 +0000

Hi ward fantastic work
so i have an ubuntu system with asterix 1.8 and freepbx-2.9.0
plz advise if i can install it on my system
thanks

By: Brent Kennedy

Brent Kennedy — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:28:47 +0000

We recently added a SIP trunk to our setup and removed the old T1 to SIP device. This fixed any limit we had previously( as i mentioned last year above ). Must of been the device. Our reports are not kicking off, so we created a script that runs via crontab every 10 minutes to detect if calls were recently run:

#start
#Detect if any calls are running and create file called active
detect=`find /var/www/html/appt-reminders/calls/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -print| wc -l`
if [ $detect != 1 ]
then
touch /var/www/html/appt-reminders/active
fi
#Make sure no calls are running and verify active file exists
#submit call report generation request and delete active file
if [ $detect = 1 -a -f /var/www/html/appt-reminders/active ]
then
sleep 300
/var/www/html/appt-reminders/report.php
rm /var/www/html/appt-reminders/active
fi
#end

Name it with a .sh extension and set it so its executable, then add a cronjob to kick it off. No more manual report running.

By: albanyeye

albanyeye — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:00:20 +0000

We been using this for reminder for about a week. The Cepstral voice is not that great. Is there a way to append the appointment file to a pre-existing WAV file that can be played back. ?
Similar to what Jeff is asking I guess.

By: Jeff Phillips

Jeff Phillips — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:24:08 +0000

This is too complicated. Why don’t you have a simple step-by-step how-to guide for people who don’t want any text to speech, don’t need to generate a separate sound file for every call, and just want to play the exact same pre-recorded message to everyone on their list?

WM: That’s the beauty of open source code. You can modify it to meet your own requirements. 😉

By: Brent Kennedy

Brent Kennedy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:35:19 +0000

For those of you with an 127 limit issue, change the ID column type to INT in the reminders table. This will allow for more than 127 entries.

Course the next issue is figuring out how to get the process to last more than 2 hours. I did re-read the blog post though, seems we can run the gen-call.php script to restart the held calls though.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:25:42 +0000

Inspired by all the TeleYapper excellence, I wrote a few Perl scripts to do something similar, yet with a focus on self-managing lists through a double opt-in method. Just thought I'd share.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Can you use a recording .WAV file instead of text to speech on the $msg variable?

[WM: Not at this time. Sorry. But it’s on the Wish List. 🙂 ]

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:17:14 +0000

Is there a limit of 127 records for a .csv file? I’ve tried twice to upload a csv file with more then 127 records and it fails.

By: Gary Flores

Gary Flores — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:31:37 +0000

Quick question here: Is there a way to make the recording a mix of a previously recorded script with some swift/cepstral generated fields?
This way we can have a better quality recording with only the dynamic data being generated by the TTS engines.

By: ward

ward — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:14:59 +0000

The Deacon's terrific TeleYapper Phonebook add-on is now available for TeleYapper 5.0.

By: mits

mits — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:08:43 +0000

hello
i want to install teleyapper 5 at elastix 2, is this posible?

thanks
mits

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:40:41 +0000

Hi Ward, Great application!

For all those who are wondering whether TY 5.0 will work with Asterisk 1.8 the answer is yes! Or at least all seems to be working…..no problems yet! As long as you use the beta version of app_swift for Asterisk 1.8 (app_swift-2.0.1-ast1.8) which can be found here http://forge.asterisk.org/gf/project/app_swift/frs/ all should be fine.

A small question. I’ve been playing around trying to see if I can create reminders directly through the mysql database using the appropriate sql command…..with no joy. I guess this is because this is created along with the .call file and *.wav file associated with the reminder. Is there anyway you can suggest going about this without using the uploadcsv/uploadxml routine?

Many Thanks!

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:25:49 +0000

Hello Ward,
Great job here… I installed and it works fine as described.
But I have another question that may not be related to this solution.
I have been using the Incredible Pbx now for a month and it works great. The problem is that I can’t have a IAX extension registered with the Incredible Pbx.
I have looked over past articles and forums on how to solve the issue but nothing.
Can you pleas help me ?

[WM: You’ll need to add a line in the firewall with the IP address of the extension. See iptables in /etc/sysconfig and example below. Then restart firewall: service iptables restart.]

-A INPUT -p udp -m udp -s 66.54.140.47 –dport 4569 -j ACCEPT

By: ward

ward — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:25:09 +0000

There have been a few reported problems by users accessing TeleYapper 5.0 from Windows-based systems. Here’s the fix for those that downloaded TeleYapper 5.0 before now. Log into your server as root and issue the following commands:

cd /tmp
mkdir teleyapper50
cd teleyapper50
wget http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/applications/teleyapper5/teleyapper50.tgz
tar zxvf teleyapper50.tgz
cd var/www/html/appt-reminders
cp config.* /var/www/html/appt-reminders/.
cp reminders.csv /var/www/html/appt-reminders/.
cp reminders.xml /var/www/html/appt-reminders/.
cp upload_* /var/www/html/appt-reminders/.

By: Joshua Welch

Joshua Welch — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:28:41 +0000

Run ./gen-mysql.php to kick off TeleYapper 5.0

That file is not present on mine, is that correct for everyone, or is it just me?

[WM: Some of the early pioneers may not have it. Follow the instructions in my comment below to extract and grab the file. Then copy it into /var/www/html/appt-reminders folder.]

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:56:31 +0000

Thanks for the fast response! How seedy would we have to get? 🙂 Cost is always an issue in a .edu.

[WM: Just see what the boss will approve. We have a soft spot for edu’s. 😉 ]

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:32:39 +0000

Thanks for maintaining and sharing this app. A quick (and no doubt stupid) question: Is it possible to use this to make connections to a conference bridge? Ideally, we’d have a scheduled event that would call all of our opt-in participants and automatically join them to the conference in progress – they wouldn’t just get a reminder and have to call back in with a PIN.

Thanks again!

[WM: Great suggestion. No reason it couldn’t be integrated into the new platform. All it takes is a little seed money or some independent development at your institution. 🙂 ]

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:54:35 +0000

Ward - another great article. In addition to the legal issues you highlighted, people need to be aware of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act which has fairly severe per call penalties.