Prerequisites

• Plivo endpoint for the bot
• Plivo account credentials for polling any ongoing conferences
• tmux
• linphonec
• pulseaudio
• espeak
• speech_recognition module for python
• (Optional) amazon polly

Getting Started

1. update botference.cfg with your plivo credentials
2. ensure tmux, linphonec are in path
3. create fifo pipe mkfifo virtmic && chmod 666 virtmic
4. update pulsesour.sh with your virtmic location
5. run sh pulsesour.sh there should be no errors/failures
6. run python main.py

Troubleshooting

Ensure that the pulseaudio sinks and sources are working correctly and examine if set_pacmd.sh works for your setup. You might need to refer online resources on pulseaudio custom sinks and sources.