My Computer Talks To Me

Dave Jacoby

@JacobyDave

Purdue Perl Mongers

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Important, !Urgent:

Email

Net::SMTP::TLS?

• Has a bug relating to TLS versions in IO::Socket::SSL
• Net::Twitter wants IO::Socket::SSL as-is

Task::Kensho::Email
​Email::Simple

Task::Kensho::Email
​Email::MIME::Kit

• Very structured
• Uses Templates
• MIME types of attachments set in manifest

Urgent, !Important:

SMS

Pushover

Festival

XMPP/Jabber (not covered)

SMS

• Using WWW::Twilio::API
• Costs $0.0075 per SMS
• Must pre-register numbers to connect to; can't random spam

Pushover

• Messages to the phone over data
• WebService::Pushover
• I don't use it

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Festival/eSpeak

• Text-to-speech engines
• Under-supported Open Source research projects
• No speech recognition aspects
• No good modules, so I qx{} it

Important, Urgent:

Phone calls

Phone Calls

• Using WWW::Twilio::API
• Costs $0.015 per minute to call
• Must pre-register numbers to connect to; can't random spam
• Uses web server, XML to automate phone calls

Demonstration

Code Examples

github.com/jacoby/TalkToMe

Questions?

@jacobydave