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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am trying to send an announcement to the called party
using the A(x) parameter in Dial, however, the message is not being played. There
is a pause between the Dial command being executed and the call being connected
to the calling party of the same length as the announcement .gsm file, but the
message itself is not being played. (I have tried this and timed it with
different announcement files). The problem occurs whatever the called party technology.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am running Asterisk version 1.0.8. A typical exten line in
extensions.conf is</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>exten => s,1,Dial(MGCP/aaln/1@Office,20,mA(${MES}))</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>where MES is a global variable containing the name of the .gsm
file in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds. Putting the actual name in makes no
difference and the same problem occurs with ZAP and SIP channels.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Is there
possibly something wrong with my configuration</span></font></p>
<p><font size=6 color=maroon face="Freestyle Script"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script";color:maroon'>Steven
Hall</span></font><span lang=EN-US> </span>.<br>
<b><font size=2 color=maroon face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>steven_hall@blueyonder.co.uk</span></font></b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></p>
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