session.answer();
var msg = "Hello, welcome to the FreeSWITCH demo application please enter some text into the chat box";

e = new Event("custom", "message");
e.addBody(msg);
session.sendEvent(e);
session.speak("cepstral", "david", msg);

while(session.ready()) {

    session.execute("sleep", "1000");
    event = session.getEvent();
    if (event) {
      //str = event.serialize();
	e = new Event("custom", "message");
	var txt = "you said: " + event.getBody();
	e.addBody(txt);
	session.sendEvent(e);
        console_log("debug", txt);
	session.speak("cepstral", "david", txt);
      event.destroy();
    }
}