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I've only recently heard of Lenny (late to the party), but think some of the videos I've heard are hilarious.

I know "he's" been around for a while, and runs on a purely manual random delay system, but I wonder if Lenny could be updated with modern technology, to do a bit of rudimentary voice recognition for better interaction with the scam caller?

I know that his existing script is very cleverly generic and timed to work in with most telemarketing scripts, but I think if it was improved just a bit more, we could end up with quite a convincing respondee that would burn up more scammer time, and hopefully make a small dent in the enthusiasm of these con artists...



I believe it (or some other bot) detects silence on the other end of the line to trigger playing samples.

So it can insert "u-huh" whenever the salesman is done talking.


from what I've read, it is meant to wait for a pause (It uses Asterisk, which in turn has some basic detection for pauses and the such, which the script uses)




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