“Most Annoying” Asterisk Application – Phone Parrot Released!

Lobster Technologies has just anounced the release of the most
annoying open source IVR application ever devised by lobsters called
"PhoneParrot". PhoneParrot is an app that uses silence detection to
repeat everything a person says in to the phone.

http://www.lobstertech.com/code/phoneparrot/

For example, you could have PhoneParrot call your mother in the middle
of the night. She will pick up the phone and say "moshi moshi", the
phone parrot will then say "moshi moshi". Your mother, confused will
then probably say, "who is you playa?" to which the phone parrot will
respond, "who is you playa?". I think you get the idea.

But phone parrot can do more than just repeat what a person says! Here
are some of the cool features:

- Apply voice change effect to repeated voice
(Only if libsoundtouch4c is installed and phone parrot is compiled from source)
- Play random sound clip if caller rambles on for too long
- Greet with random sound clip in response to first thing caller says
- ToDo: Repeat things previously said in conversation

Years of research has indicated that with proper deployment, most
humans are unable to tell that they are talking to a machine if the
voicechanger add-on is used.

PhoneParrot is intended for the age 16-25 mischievous Linux hacker
market; however, businesses deploying Asterisk may also find
PhoneParrot useful as a torture extension for telemarketers.

Please enjoy the new software, and remember: Keep it Open Source Pigs

Justin Alexander Roberts Tunney
Sanitation Engineer
Lobster Technologies, Corp.
Phone: (666) 700-1337

New release of Asterisk-Java

Asterisk-Java 0.3-m1, a Java library for Asterisk PBX integration,
has been released.

The Asterisk-Java package consists of a set of Java classes that allow
you to easily build Java applications that interact with an Asterisk
PBX Server. Asterisk-Java supports both interfaces that Asterisk
provides for this scenario: The FastAGI protocol and the Manager API.

The 0.3-m1 milestone release focuses on ease of use and provides the
new org.asteriskjava.live package that takes care of the lowlevel action
and event handling of the Manager API and offers an intuitive API for
Java developers. Asterisk-Java has been updated to take advantage of the
new features of Java 5.0 and therfore requires a Java Virtual Machine
of at least version 1.5.0.

Asterisk-Java is used in several commercial environments and by
the following Open Source projects:

- Asterisk-JTAPI
JTAPI implementation for Asterisk. http://asterisk-jtapi.sf.net/

- Asterisk-IM
A plugin for the Jive Messenger XMPP (jabber) server. It provides
integrated presence between your IM client and phone, notification
of incoming calls by IM and originate calls from supported IM
clients. http://www.jivesoftware.org/asterisk-im/

- Asterisk Desktop Manager (ADM)
A desktop application that will allow for automatic on-call volume
reduction, one click dial from clipboard, integrated phonebook
and more.http://adm.hamnett.org/

Asterisk-Java is available under Apache 2.0 license at http://asteriskjava.org

ohrwurm – an RTP fuzzer released

ohrwurm-0.1 - an RTP fuzzer

ohrwurm is a small and simple RTP fuzzer, I tested it on a small number of SIP phones, none of them did withstand.
Features:

- reads SIP messages to get information of the RTP port numbers
- reading SIP can be omitted by providing the RTP port numbers, sothat any RTP traffic can be fuzzed
- RTCP traffic can be suppressed to avoid that codecs learn about the "noisy line"
- special care is taken to break RTP handling itself
- the RTP payload is fuzzed with a constant BER
- the BER is configurable
- requires arpspoof from dsniff to do the MITM attack
- requires both phones to be in a switched LAN (GW operation only works partially)

full link here

Fuzzy Packet Released.

Fuzzy packet is a tool to manipulate messages through the injection, capturing, receiving or sending of packets generated over a network. Its architecture embeds a Plug-In system, providing the addition of new features easily. The way this tool manages the data is based in Meta-Language templates which are coded in XML.

Link to original release here

New Release of Asterisk Voice Changer Module

Hi again!

A new version 0.4 of my Voice Changer for Asterisk 1.2 was released 2006-08-23

http://www.lobstertech.com/code/voicechanger/

Yes I finally stopped being lazy and updated it! ^_^ Here are the main features:

- Simpler build system, no messy patching!
- CDR record handling should work correctly now
- Will set the DIALSTATUS variable
- Change pitch during conversation with * and #
- Voice effect can be applied to peer channel instead with 'p' option

The simpler build system is partially due to help from anthm for
wrapping my modifications to SoundTouch in to a separate library found
here: http://www.lobstertech.com/code/libsoundtouch4c/

Please note that this version is a total rewrite and I haven't had a
whole lot of time to valgrind and test it rigorously. If you have ANY
problems, even if you figure out how to work around them, please let
me know so I can fix it so others don't have the same problem. I
usually respond pretty quick to email (in the 5 minutes to one day
range)

Plans for 0.6:

- Change voice pitch via manager api and command line
- Open to suggestions

Have fun!

- Justin Tunney

-users: New Version of AstLinux

Hello everyone,

I have released AstLinux 0.4.3:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/astlinux/

For all of those that have been waiting to switch to 0.4.x, this is
your chance. The few remaining problems with uclibc have been fixed
(i.e. voicemail timezones and voicemail -> email via MSMTP).

Don't forget to peek around in SVN for all kinds of goodies.
Especially trunk - the Gumstix is now a direct target for builds.
That's right, build AstLinux for a Gumstix just as easily as a Soekris!

asterisk-* : new releases of zaptel, addons and asterisk

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce new releases of
three of our projects:

Asterisk 1.2.11 includes a number of bug fixes, along with an update to
the chan_misdn driver for mISDN devices, including Digium's new B410P
quad BRI interface card.

Asterisk-Addons 1.2.4 includes quite a number of bug fixes and
performance improvements in the H.323 channel driver maintained by
Objective Systems (chan_ooh323).

Zaptel 1.2.8 include a small number of bug fixes, an update to properly
licensed header files for the included Octasic API kit and a Makefile
target to make it easier for users to build the mISDN kernel and
userspace drivers for the B410P.

As always, the release files are available on the Digium FTP servers at
http://ftp.digium.com, in both tarball and patch file form. All of the
release files have been signed with our GPG keys and the signature files
are available in the same directories as the release files.

Thanks for using and supporting Asterisk!

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