[Asterisk-Users] change languages from an IVR

[Time Bandit]

> A customer of mine wants an IVR where the first 3 choices are
>
> 1 English
> 2 Spanish
> 3 French
>
> I can build the IVR but how do I get the system prompts to then speak
> the selected langauge. For example, a caller has selected Spanish and so
> is routed to the Spanish part of the IVR. At some point he breaks out of
> the IVR to leave a VM. How does the system know to continue offering him
> Spanish?
see http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+SetLanguage
and http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+multi-language

But, AFAIK, when they get to voicemail, the greeting is not based on
the language setting, so you have to record it in those 3 languages,
which makes a pretty long greeting

hth