[Asterisk-Users] Announcement to caller when called party has picked up - without initial Answer()?

[Remco Barende]

What you want is impossible!

How can you expect Asterisk to play a message to the caller without 
answering the phone?


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Stefan Gofferje wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> is there a chance to play an announcement to the calling party AFTER the 
> called party has picked up the receiver and WITHOUT asterisk answering the 
> call?
>
> I have a special line where conversations should be recorded on. German 
> federal laws forbid recording without consent, so the idea is to play an 
> announcement like "This line is been monitored, please hang up if you don't 
> agree".
> Trouble is, I don't want asterisk to answer the call and therefore produce 
> cost for the caller because it may be that there is nobody present to answer 
> the call.
> Asterisk should just send ring indications to the PSTN and play the 
> announcement when the call is picked up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
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