VOX based parrot to use with Baofeng UV-K5 or another radio with VOX support. Needs to be sox installed. Optionally, you can add DTMF code actions with multimon-ng dependency. Note: DTMF characters need to be spaced between in "case".

vox_parrot.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

trap exit INT

while true; do
    rec buffer.ogg silence 1 0.1 5% 1 1.0 5%

    DPATH="$(date +%Y/%m/%d/)"
    TIME="$(date +%H%M%S)"

    DSTDIR="./recordings/$DPATH"
    DSTFILE="$DSTDIR/$TIME.ogg"

    mkdir -p "$DSTDIR"

    sox buffer.ogg "$DSTFILE" gain -n -2
    
    play "$DSTFILE"
done

vox_parrot_dtmf.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

trap exit INT

while true; do
    rec buffer.ogg silence 1 0.1 5% 1 1.0 5%

    DPATH="$(date +%Y/%m/%d/)"
    TIME="$(date +%H%M%S)"

    DSTDIR="./recordings/$DPATH"
    DSTFILE="$DSTDIR/$TIME.ogg"

    mkdir -p "$DSTDIR"

    sox buffer.ogg "$DSTFILE" gain -n -2

    dtmf="$(multimon-ng -a DTMF -t ogg "$DSTFILE" -q | cut -d ' ' -f 2| xargs)"

    echo "DTMF: $dtmf"
    case $dtmf in
        "1 #")
            echo "HELP!!!111"
            ;;
        *)
            play "$DSTFILE"
            ;;
    esac
done