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   Todd on February 4, 2016 at 4:16 pm

   Is he open source can others help host?

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   marf on February 4, 2016 at 4:30 pm

   I bet I’m not the only one who found out about the bot from the Yahoo article/link. You’re probably getting crushed with requests.

   I improvised. I called a number that has been spamming me daily with “google listing” requests and just acted like the bot when I had 10 minutes to kill. LOL. The best part is when he finally asked “Is this an automated system?….Oh man…..” AND THEN I KEPT HIM ON FOR ANOTHER 2 MINUTES BY SAYING ‘NO’ ONCE HAHAHAHAHAHA

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     captain on February 4, 2016 at 4:40 pm

     Wait, I built a robot to sound like a person. But it wasn’t available so you then *pretended* to be the robot pretending to be a fake person and the caller thought you were a robot? My head hurts.

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   MichaelL on February 4, 2016 at 4:35 pm

   I imagine if I use the long-distance version of your phone number, a call to your nice robot from Canada will be fine – yes? If so, I’ll be happy to donate.

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     captain on February 4, 2016 at 4:38 pm

     Yes, Canada should be fine. It’ll be a long distance call to Texas though.

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       MichaelL on February 4, 2016 at 7:45 pm

       Thanks, captain. No worries on charges. I have a cheap unlimited long distance covering all of Canada and the US. Brilliant idea! Many thanks.

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   LarryH on February 5, 2016 at 4:05 am

   Brilliant! Are you using, say, a Dialogic board connected to a POTS line? Or something like Asterisk with VoIP?

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     captain on February 5, 2016 at 4:52 am

     Thank you! Funny you mention Dialogic – in 1995 I won a Dialogic card at a trade show and I WAS SO EXCITED! It was the reason I switched to Windows 95. Alas, I never did get that particular card to work…

     But this robot is on Asterisk with unlimited SIP trunks – and boy have I needed those trunks this week. Unfortunately they don’t come with unlimited usage, hence the kickstarter…

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   ACE on February 5, 2016 at 2:15 pm

   If you want to switch to cheaper more flexible hosting, I’d personally recommend nearlyfreespeech.net’s pay-as-you-go hosting. I’m not sure if they would allow you to host your bot there, but you can try…

   I’m currently playing $.60 per month for my home-coded site…

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     captain on February 5, 2016 at 2:49 pm

     Thanks for the tip! I’ll check it out…

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