Transcription Voice Mail for FreePBX

Features

• Attaching a transcript to the email of what was said in the voicemail recording using Google Cloud Speech-to-text API

Installation

#!/bin/sh

sendmail-gcloud

Installation instructions

Copy the content of this file to /usr/sbin/sendmail-gcloud

Google Account

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Create a Google Cloud account if you don't have one yet. Free trial is available at https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial

Within console.cloud.google.com search for Cloud Speech-to-Text API and enable it

From the Linux command line on the FreePBX machine

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Follow steps 1 and 2 of the instructions on Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/downloads-yum

Run the following commands on FreePBX;

cd /usr/sbin/

chown asterisk:asterisk sendmail-gcloud

chmod 744 sendmail-gcloud

chmod 777 /usr/bin/dos2unix

Verify that you have the following (by simply running the command) and if not use yum install;

jq

sox

flac

dos2unix -V

Ensure dos2unix is executable by the asterisk user (chmod 777 /usr/bin/dos2unix)

Connect FreePBX to Google Cloud

su asterisk

gcloud auth login

CLI will provide you a url. Copy that and paste it into your browser. Google will give you a verification code to copy. Paste it into the cli waiting for a verification code.

Open FreePBX web interface

Go to Settings > Voicemail Admin > Settings > Email Config

Change Mail Command to: /usr/sbin/sendmail-gcloud

Submit and apply changes

Original source created by N. Bernaerts: https://github.com/NicolasBernaerts/debian-scripts/tree/master/asterisk

modified per: https://jrklein.com/2015/08/17/asterisk-voicemail-transcription-via-ibm-bluemix-speech-to-text-api/

modified per: https://gist.github.com/lgaetz/2cd9c54fb1714e0d509f5f8215b3f5e6

current version: https://gist.github.com/tony722/7c6d86be2e74fa10a1f344a4c2b093ea

Notes: This is a script modified from the original to work with FreePBX so that email notifications sent from

Asterisk voicemail contain a speech to text transcription provided by Google Cloud Speech API

License: There are no explicit license terms on the original script or on the blog post with modifications

I'm assumig GNU/GPL2+ unless notified otherwise by copyright holder(s)

Version History:

2021-05-06 Add fix by dcat127: trim flac file to 59 seconds

2020-08-27 Add fix by chrisduncansn

Minor edit in instruction wording

2020-05-27 Add instructions from sr10952

Add export fix by levishores

2019-02-27 Initial commit by tony722