[Asterisk-Users] Detect sound and continue, like BackgroundDetect() for voice

[Steve Underwood]

Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:

>I'm looking for an application that can monitor a channel for voice
>input and then proceed on.  The closest thing I've found is
>BackgroundDetect, which expects DTMF.
>
>Here's what I'm doing:
>-Call file generated which calls someone and connects them to an
>extension.
>-Extension plays stuff, etc. etc. etc (not important)
>
>With digital or VoIP termination, this works fine, because * knows when
>the line is answered.  On analog POTS, it has no idea when the call is
>actually answered, only when its dialed, so the playback starts right
>after the line is dialed, not after the called party picks up.
>
>The Dialogic IVR SDK monitors call termination status this way, so I'm
>looking for something similar in *.  Anyone have any ideas on this one?
>Or am I going about this the hard way and missing an obvious
>alternative?
>  
>
Yes, you missed an obvious option - search the mailing list. This has 
come up an number of times.

Regards,
Steve