[Asterisk-Users] Suitable for Dynamic IVR Platform?

[Umar Sear]

All that and more ..

Welcome to the club. Check the wiki (www.voip-info.org) for a wealth of
knowledge.

Umar

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:06, Paul Dugas wrote:
> New to asterisk so please be gentle.  I'm guessing I'm among a number of
> recent additions to the list after the article in Linux Mag.  I gotta say
> I'm *very* intersted in the project and will be doing lots of reading
> shortly.  A couble quick questions first...
> 
> How suitable is Asterisk for use as an IVR providing callers with textual
> data out of a database?  Can it be combined easily with something like
> Festival (festvox.org) to read text to callers?  Anybody doing anything
> like this already?
> 
> Can Asterisk be used to create applications that initiate outbound calls
> based on timers or other events and use the IVR to play messages and
> collect responses?  Think automation of alert notifications.  i.e. "Hello.
> The equipment room is on fire.  Press 1 to acknowledge this message".
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Paul
> 
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