[asterisk-users] Automatic Dial, Play message

[Matt Florell]

On 2/8/07, Forrest Beck <jonforrest.beck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have some method, or AGI scripts that will automatically
> call a list of numbers from a database and play a pre-recorded
> message?
>
> Just for example, you have a database of
>
> FirstName, LastName, PhoneNumber
> Jon, Beck, 9194713175
>
> So it would pull each record with phone number, dial the number, when
> answered play a pre-recorded message.
>
> It could be used to notify parents at a school that a after school
> game is canceled.
>
> I appreciate any direction you can point me in.

I'm sure it's more than you are looking for, but VICIDIAL can do what
you want to do. It's GPL and is in use doing auto-messaging campaigns
right now for several businesses and governmental organizations:
http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/vicidial.html

MATT---