bv2iphone.sh
Well, the problem was that as part of the 1.0 release of the iPhone firmware, WAV files could only be played if they were in the proper format. The issues that I had was that Broadvoice would send a nicely compressed WAV file to me whenever someone left a voicemail. This is convenient and worked great in Gmail. However, on the iPhone, I wanted to be able to play the voicemail while on the go. This script (and the helpful open-source utilities it uses) was the solution. I know I stole most of this from elsewhere on the Internet but in this case I forgot to document.
#!/bin/bash if ! TEMPDIR="`mktemp /tmp/sendwav.XXXXXX`"; then echo "$0 is unable to create the temporary file." exit 1 fi # not perfect, but, we'll live rm $TEMPDIR mkdir $TEMPDIR mkdir -p $TEMPDIR/source touch $TEMPDIR/pre #absorbs stdin munpack -C $TEMPDIR/source touch $TEMPDIR/post #convert to GSM sox $TEMPDIR/source/*.[Ww][Aa][Vv] -r 8000 -c 1 -u $TEMPDIR/voicemail.wav cat $TEMPDIR/source/voice-message.desc | mutt -a $TEMPDIR/voicemail.wav -s "New Voicemail" andrew.flanagan+iphone@gmail.com rm -fr $TEMPDIR
