Stuck on hold? Zork is the new soft jazz

by Christopher Grant { Jun 6th 2006 at 9:35AM }

Forget Michael Bolton, Zork is the best hold music ever! From Zasterisk:

"I was tinkering with Asterisk and the Festival text-to-speech engine, and wrote some short Asterisk::AGI scripts to read back live weather reports. After that, I thought I needed something more interactive to work with...

"Now Zork is back! Listen as the eerie voice of Festival takes you into the Underground Empire, and marvel as you explore this world with your dial pad, unlocking the secrets within!"

You'll need to install the Asterisk open source phone-switcher (*NIX only, that includes you Mac users), the Festival text-to-speech application, and then let Zasterisk work its special brand of magic, turning that boring phone tree into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

Too much work, you say? Good news! On March 13th the project's creator, simon, announced "over the next few weeks I'll be putting a public beta online for you to call in to." A few weeks is, like, right now! We're officially on the lookout.

[Via Boing Boing]

Tags: IF, Infocom, Interactive Fiction, InteractiveFiction, Telephone, Text, Text Adventures, TextAdventures, Zork