[Asterisk-Users] Announcement to called party

[JP Carballo]

Steven Hall wrote:

> I am trying to send an announcement to the called party using the A(x) 
> parameter in Dial, however, the message is not being played. There is 
> a pause between the Dial command being executed and the call being 
> connected to the calling party of the same length as the announcement 
> .gsm file, but the message itself is not being played. (I have tried 
> this and timed it with different announcement files). The problem 
> occurs whatever the called party technology.
>
>  
>
> I am running Asterisk version 1.0.8. A typical exten line in 
> extensions.conf is
>
>  
>
> exten => s,1,Dial(MGCP/aaln/1 at Office,20,mA(${MES}))
>
>  
>
> where MES is a global variable containing the name of the .gsm file in 
> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds. Putting the actual name in makes no 
> difference and the same problem occurs with ZAP and SIP channels.
>
>  
>
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Is there possibly 
> something wrong with my configuration
>
> Steven Hall .
> *steven_hall at blueyonder.co.uk*
>
What does the CLI say?
Does it show Playing 'value-of-MES' (language 'en')?
I'm using 1.0.8 here and I have no problems using A(x) in my dial 
strings in either ZAP or SIP channels.

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