[Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

[Carl Youngblood]

>Just a warning that you will not know when the line is picked up with a
>X100P. Later when you upgrade to T1/E1 service you will know when it is
>picked up.
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So I assume that means that I should just wait until I hear some level 
of noise and then I know that the line has been picked up?

>You may want to rethink this just a bit, wouldn't want to restart the
>message because someone coughed on the line. Maybe a limit of how far in
>to the message before you ignore noise. 
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Or maybe noise would have to last for more than a certain period of time 
before it triggered another waiting sequence.  Like, say, if noise lasts 
for longer than 2 full seconds or something.

>Shouldn't be a problem. If you write your own DSP stuff, you could write
>this using EAGI, otherwise you will need to write it into an asterisk
>app to get at the already written silence detection. Either way, you
>could use festival for the TTS, or for certain messages, you could go
>ahead a record prompts to be played. This way you are sure your message
>will be understood.
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What is EAGI?  I will probably use festival for the time being, but I 
thing that I would eventually like to use ScanSoft's RealSpeak SDK 
because it is so life-like.  Unfortunately our text alerts are fully 
customizeable, so we can't pre-record them.

Thanks for the help!

Carl