Classic Simpsons

4 June, 2008 (23:26) | Asterisk, Personal, UNIX

Setting up my Asterisk box I was tired of hitting the voicemail button to test the server, so I thought i’d find something a little more comical to test with.

Ah ha! I thought, as I remember back to the classic episode ‘King Size Homer‘; where Homer’s goal was to weight more than 300lbs so he could work from home. The classic line where he attempts to operate a touch tone phone, however the operator says ‘The fingers you have used to dial, are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, mash the keypad with your palm, now’ would be perfect :D

A quick google later, and it’s located on here. It’s in Wav format; so you’ll need to convert it for use with Asterisk.

Download the .wav’s you want, and run:

for i in *.wav; do sox $i -r 8000 -c 1 $(basename $i .wav).gsm resample -ql; done

Move the .gsm files into /var/lib/asterisk/sounds and they’re ready to use :)

I’ve got a line setup with the special Stonecutters REAL emergency number: 912

exten => 912,1,Playback(toofat)

Even after the 10th time, I’m still laughing at that clip :D