[Asterisk-Users] Automated Dialing / Recording ?

[Steven Critchfield]

Maybe you could add the idea of how long is the wait time to this
application and have each call go to a forwarded number, and wait around
maybe playing a message for he operator on the other side to hit some
DTMF key sequence that breaks the loop. Why bother having someone listen
to if the call succeeded when you can get the phone user to confirm for
you. 

It is still a simple application that you call out and connect that call
to a local monitor app. If you don't get a positive acknowledgment, you
could then forward the audio file and the specification off to a human
to be interpreted. If your talking about 1000's of lines, this should
cut down the manual labor quite a bit.   

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:05, Rick Smith wrote:
> Cool... What I actually wanted to do with this is combine 
> the * operator voice with the phone number and make a 
> "web file" out of it...then let someone go down the list
> by browsing a website.
> 
> Of course, a database app would store and create the call lists....
> 
> Thanks!  This gives me ammo.
> 
> R
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:48 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Automated Dialing / Recording ?
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:06, Rick Smith wrote:
> > > We have 1000's of Remote Call Forward #'s across the USA / Canada, 
> > > which forward into 1000's of 800 #'s in our call center.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to automate a solution where Asterisk could dial a 
> > > given number, record the first 3 seconds of the call, save 
> > it to disk, 
> > > and then go on to the next number, and just do this all day long ?
> > > 
> > > We need to regularly check that the numbers work, for billing and 
> > > payment purposes as well as operational purposes, and I 
> > thought this 
> > > would be the perfect situation !
> > 
> > Yeah, you can do that, but what help will the recorded files 
> > be? Seems that if you are wanting to be sure a forward 
> > functioned, you would want some form of positive feedback. 
> > 
> > Anyways, you could create a context that had an 
> > absolutetimeout then dumped to a monitor app, then the 
> > timeout would hangup for you. Combine that with the 
> > sample.call files to dial out and then dump to this context 
> > and your done.
> > --
> > Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
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