[Asterisk-Users] First second choppy

[Rich Adamson]

> > When someone calls into our * system over a PTSN line, we answer with 
> > a recorded prompt.  (Thank  you for calling, etc..)
> >
> > The first second of this prompt ALWAYS skips.  After that, everything 
> > sounds great and works perfectly.  There is nothing wrong with the 
> > prompt.
> 
> Yeah, there's some wackyness (wackiness?) during call setup, and it 
> usually manifests itself as a big ugly dropout on an outbound call too. 
> I have been experimenting with the whole RINGING, WAIT, ANSWER sequence 
> of steps at the beginning of my inbound contexts to get just the right 
> amount of time to settle the call down.
> 
> However, I'm not sure if I should be doing RINGING, ANSWER, WAIT or 
> some other sequence of events, or just RINGING(n) then ANSWER.
> 
> Anyone know if WAIT is not advisable to workaround the problem Noah's 
> asking about?

This one works fine for me using CVS-HEAD-03/23/05

[bus-ivr-main]
exten => s,1,Wait,1
exten => s,2,Answer
exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,5
exten => s,4,ResponseTimeout,20
exten => s,5,Background(npi-greeting)  ; "Thanks for calling press 1 for"