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

[Richard Lyman]

Steve Underwood wrote:
> 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
> 
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