speakcid is hosted on Savannah. Here is the link to speakcid's project page.

• Required Components
• Configuration
• Web Interface
• Download
• Basic Caller ID script
• Contact info

Perl

Perl Modules
• DBI
  Currently speakcid supports mysql without modification. Other DBs could be added.
  • Mysql DBD
• Time::Period

Festival

The options of speakcid are grouped at the top of the perl script. Here is a list of configuration items that are listed in speakcid:

$run_festival	Flag to determine if the number should be spoken
$festival_server	Name of the festival server
$festival_port	Port number of the festival server
%name_translation	Hash used to change from one name to another. This is useful for rommates
%number_translation	Hash used to map a number to a name. This is useful for work numbers or cell phone numbers
%name_trans	Hash used to change names to phonetic names. These values are not logged to the database they are just used for the TTS
$PERIOD	The times that TTS will run. You can setup speakcid to only announce the caller name during certain times. See the Time::Period perl module for more details.

Speackcid will try and connect to the running festival server using a TCP/IP socket. To get the TTS to work properly just make sure that the festival server is up and running. You can test the festival server using the festival_client application that comes with festival. Just run festival_server and then type (SayText "Testing 1 2 3") and then ctrl-c. If everything is working properly you should hear the festival say back Testing 1 2 3.

Once festival is up and running all you need to do is to invoke speakcid. A log file will be created in /var/log/callerid.log. Because of this the user that runs speakcid will need write acces to /var/log.

speakcid comes with a web interface that allows you to query your caller id database. cid.pl is perl script that can be setup in a cgi area. Here is what the query interface looks like and here is an example of the search results.

You can download the latest version speakcid here.

Speakcid was forked from the basic_callerid_logger script. Hopefully one day speakcid will be merged into basic_callerid_logger. Specifically speakcid was forked from version 1.0.12 version of the basic_callerid_logger.

If you have any comments/bugs/suggestions feel free to send them to troy@smith.net