[Asterisk-Dev] Refined Voice CallerID Announce

[Tom Dickenson]

I'll pay anyone for thier time to develop this type of answering feature for
asterisk as long as it will be in the distrubution with asterisk it'self for
other people. We can come to a mean on a price after such a script or
whatever is needed to do this is done and will work for our needs here.

I personally do like Steve McMahon's Idea on this subject and would like it
to be optional depending on a flag set on IAX.conf or SIP.conf under each
client specified, now beeing that "technical" is there anyone with the means
to do this to help the blind?

-Tom Dickenson
Ear to Ear Communications
Seattle, Washington USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Goryachev" <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au>
To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Refined Voice CallerID Announce


> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 03:20 -0600, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:42 +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > > Originally, I thought this was a bull-shit waste of time, but after
> > > reading the above comment, my first thought was "Hey, this really
could
> > > be a very useful tool for the blind/near blind, which could include a
> > > large portion of the eldery, which will shortly be the biggest portion
> > > of most 'markets'.....
> > I don't think the elderly is a target, but the blind or nearly blind
> > still are in the workplace and need consideration. Of course how often
> > should a workplace person be screening calls? Not something for me to
> > answer, I have learned that my opinion of ethics in business doesn't
> > exactly match with what is practiced.
>
> *shrug*... consider an ... (looking for the 'right' word... dunno) old
> people's home where they install asterisk with a phone in every room?
> Not all asterisk boxes are installed in the workplace. I've lost count
> of the number of times people drop in and ask us to tell them
> step-by-step how to rollout a residential system for a block of units,
> or some other style....
>
> > Looks like you need to pass the details to festival and create a temp
> > file and use it with the current dial app as a pre-announcement file.
> >
> >       'A(x)' -- play an announcement to the called party, using x as
file
> >
> > Shouldn't be anything at all to call system or use AGI to make festival
> > output a nice temp file and then use the A(x) option of dial to play the
> > temp file. You could also run a garbage collection routine to cleanup
> > temp every now and again by deleting the everything but the last x
> > number of files and use touch to update any already created files. This
> > would possibly help reduce the number of times festival is needed to
> > deal with repeat callers.
>
> Hmmm, thats a much nicer method than my suggestion :)... Then again,
> I've not looked at all the million new arguments to dial... I'll
> probably do that shortly when I move the cvs-head soon...
>
> > See really simple. You don't have to make it any more difficult than it
> > needs to be.
>
> Even easier, delete the file in the h extension... :)
> Perhaps use the asterisk db to record the number of calls received from
> this callerid, if the value is > 2 (or some value you choose) then don't
> delete the file. ie, if someone calls you once every 3 months, then who
> cares.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
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