[asterisk-users] read digits during recording / DTMF in conference?

[virendra bhati]

You may used even capturing in the case... when call  is recoding in
conference

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Kingsley Tart <kingsley at skymarket.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create a system for incoming calls where, under some
> circumstances, callers get routed straight to voicemail (or some other
> means of recording a message) but if they enter a valid extension number
> then the recorded message would be abandoned and they'd be diverted to
> the extension number they entered.
>
> I realise this can be done with the voicemail app with operator=yes but
> the problem with this is that the caller has to press 0 while the
> announcement is being played. If they're too slow and recording has
> started, they've missed the opportunity.
>
> So I played around with ConfBridge and a couple of call files, just to
> see if I could get it to work. It's a bit convoluted but the idea is
> that the caller gets silently put into a conference, then two call files
> make asterisk silently connect to other calls into the same conference,
> with one doing the recording and the other using Read() to collect
> digits.
>
> If I just had the caller and one of the other calls in the conference
> (the one doing Read()) then this worked - Read() managed to read the
> DTMF digits and assign them to a variable.
>
> However, when the 'recording' call is also in the conference, the 'read'
> call can no longer recognise the DTMF digits. To test, I made the 'read'
> call play a sound before calling Read() and I could hear this being
> played so the call was definitely there. However, regardless of the
> number of digits I pressed, Read() didn't notice any of them, even if I
> introduced a delay so that the other channels were quiet before the call
> to Read().
>
> I realise this might seem a bit like a mad solution but can anyone else
> think of a way to get Asterisk to read (and react to) DTMF digits during
> a recording?
>
> This is with Asterisk 1.8.7.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kingsley.
>
>
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Thanks and regards

 Virendra Bhati
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Software Engineer
E-mail-: virbhati at gmail.com
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