[Asterisk-Users] German voicemail prompts, anybody?

[John Harragin]

> It's not *very* simple to change the voicemail
> prompts. That's because the english grammar
> used by voicemail isn't the same as other
> languages ... I've translated all the prompts
> to italian, but the result is a bit ugly ;-)
> since some words in english are the same
> if used singular/plural , in italian are
> very different (don't know german well,
> but think is the same).

This is interesting.

> So some hacking into voicemail code is also
> needed in order to set the correct sequence
> of the prompts.

It would seem that a language specific table or database lookup would be
best to steer a caller though the appropriate decision tree - rather than
winding up with a different hack for each language.

John