[Asterisk-Users] Can asterisk make a call to a phone?

[William Suffill]

use call files there is should a sample in the asterisk src
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 12:21, John Chambers wrote:
> Newbie question coming up ...
> 
> Is it possible to use the asterisk to initiate a call to a phone?
> 
> What I'm trying to determine is ways for software  to  connect  to  a
> phone and send it a sound file with a message like:
> 
>    Hello Mr.  Jones.  How are you doing today?  Press 1 if you're OK.
>    Press  2 if you need help.  Or press 3 and start talking, and your
>    message will be passed to a person.
> 
> The application is probably pretty obvious.  I've been digging around
> in  asterisk to see if it can handle this, so far without finding the
> right docs.  I've read a lot on this  list  about  handling  incoming
> calls,  which  we  may want to do eventually, too.  But the immediate
> question I'm trying to answer is how our software can react to events
> by  making calls like the above and doing something useful with them.
> 
> The immediate goal is play a sound file and then record record  reply
> and/or  button presses from the phone.  (Speech recognition will come
> later.  ;-)
> 
> So am I looking in the wrong place?  Or is there an example somewhere
> in asterisk of initiating a call from the computer side to a phone?
> 
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