[Asterisk-Users] controlling recording

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 20:25 -0500, John Hammen wrote:
> Thanks for your quick replies - I had no idea this list was so responsive!
> 
> One more issue for you - we are trying to build a custom voicemail
> application and so far everything works great by using AGI to play
> prompts, get input and record files. However one of our customers has
> asked for some pretty advanced functionality, specifically the ability
> to:
> 
> * stop in the middle of recording (so far so good, escape character)
> * fast forward/rewind the recording as it is so far (!)
> * overdub (i.e. rerecord) starting from a desired point in the
> existing sound file (!!!)
> 
> So, it's pretty clear that AGI's "RECORD FILE" function as it stands
> is not going to cut it, so I'm assuming that do anything like this
> means writing a new custom app_something.c, does that sound right?
> Anybody have any tips or comments on how ridiculously difficult this
> might be?


Ahh so you have a client that wants to do some form of dictation. Yes
AGI as it stands can handle it. Look at the docs a bit closer. How do I
know it works, My company already has a dictation system written and n
production use using AGI.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>