[Asterisk-Users] The sounds of silence: silent soundfiles available

[Martin Pycko]

You could use ResponseTimeout together with Background instead of playing
silence files.

Martin

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, John Todd wrote:

>
> As has been noted before on this list, the Wait() application does
> not listen for keystrokes from users.  Many of you, like me, have
> looping Background(), Wait(), and Goto() application priority chains
> that prompt users to enter some data, and then repeat the
> instructions if no keys are pressed.  The problem of course is if the
> user doesn't start pressing keys during the Background() call and
> delays until the Wait() application is called, those keys are lost.
>
> I had solved this some time back by creating a few random length
> files of silence, that would replace Wait() routines in some
> circumstances.  I have finally created a formal measured group of
> files, each with 1-10 seconds of silence, and put them in my sounds
> directory for public consumption.  Not a big deal for most of you to
> create these files yourselves, but perhaps a minor pain that
> hopefully I've removed for some people who don't have sound tools
> handy.
>
> http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/sounds/silence/
>
> JT
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