Incase you ever had the weird inclination to sound like a chipmunk, or Jabber the Hut, now you can!

all you need is the Asterisk Voice Changer and you’re a chipmunk.

This apllication will disguise your voice (not change it into another persons voice but make it unrecognisable) in real-time conversations. I read about this on Tom Keatings blog, where he includes the instructions for installation:

On your functioning Linux machine running Asterisk with the header files installed to /usr/include/asterisk, run the following commands to install the voice changer as well as its two dependencies:

# install SoundTouch 1.3.1
# you can also install it through your package manager
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/soundtouch-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar xvzf soundtouch-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd soundtouch-1.3.1/
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install

# install libsoundtouch4c
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.lobstertech.com/code/libsoundtouch4c/releases/libsoundtouch4c-0.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libsoundtouch4c-0.4.tar.gz
cd libsoundtouch4c-0.4
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
make install

# install the voice changer
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.lobstertech.com/code/voicechanger/releases/voicechanger-0.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf voicechanger-0.6.tar.gz
cd voicechanger-0.6
make
make install

# load it in to asterisk
make start

Be sure to check out this link on Lobstertech.com for the full list of options for this application.

Now run off and play kids!

Tom Keating is was excited about the release of the D2 Technologies release of their Mobile Handset Solution Powered by a Google android.

apparently it is the ultimate solution for all your handset needs. He writes all about it here saying

“mCUE revolutionizes mobile communications by tying together the best aspects of PC-based communications, such as VoIP, instant messaging and presence support, with the roaming benefits of mobile cellular and connection speed and quality of in-building wireless,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing at D2 Technologies. “It is a complete turnkey solution for multi-mode mobile communication devices.”

mCUE is interoperable with enterprise IP-PBXs and unified communications systems. Looking at the GUI and the feature-specs, this definitely seems like a pretty cool product that I need to get my hands on and test.

I wonder whether he ever did get his “hands on it” and what he thinks of it now?