[Asterisk-biz] text till answer

[Trevor G. Hammonds]

My suggestion is to background a short "please wait..." file, then dump them
into the Dial command with the m option.  Use a specifically-created MOH
class with a "please continue to hold..." message mixed into the music every
X seconds.  This way, they always hear the message before entering the hold
queue, and as long as the call is ringing, they continue to hear MOH
interspersed with your message.  

		Sincerely,
		Trevor Hammonds


ChB wrote on Monday, 29 August 2005 6:18 PM:

> well, problem is that the sound file contains the information "please
> hold the line, were right with you" so the called person should be
> able to pick up the call and stop the playback of the file, basically
> i want the m-feature, just for _every_ call, from the beginning.   
> 
> regards
> christian
> 
> 
> On Monday Aug 2005 11:45:21 -0400 "Tony Fontoura" <tony at fontoura.com>
> wrote: 
> 
>> Suggestion:
>> Use "play" to answer the call with your sound file and only then dial
>> the extension.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Benke 
>> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:36 AM
>> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: [Asterisk-biz] text till answer
>> 
>> hello!
>> 
>> i'm looking for a feature to play a sound-file containing a text
>> until the called party picks up the phone. i've already tried with
>> the 'special' musiconhold-feature by adding the m-option at the end
>> of DIAL but it 
>> is not exactly what i want. the proble m with the m-option is that
>> the file is played to a second caller at the same position as it was
>> played to the first caller, so when the second person calls, the text
>> is played somewhere in the middle of the track instead of the
>> beginning. i only works when the file has already been fully
>> played(e.g. when there was enough time between the first and the
>> second call). i want to play a text for every caller(that is played
>> from the beginning) until the called party picks up the phone, is
>> that possible? th ank you for all suggestions!
>> 
>> regards
>> chris