[asterisk-users] Garbled initial voicemail prompt

[Brian Capouch]

Joshua Colp wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frank Tarczynski
> [mailto:ftarz at mindspring.com]
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Thu,
> 03 Aug 2006 07:16:15 -0300
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Garbled initial
> voicemail prompt
> 
> 
> 
>>I'm having a problem where the very first words of the Asterisk voicemail
>>system prompt are distorted into a loud ear-splitting beep. When I dial my
>>VoiceMailMain extension I get this loud beep followed by the rest of the
>>initial voicemail system prompt.  After that everything works fine.  I've
>>have this problem under both v1.2.6 (self-compiled) and now under 1.2.10
>>(under Astlinux).
>>
>>My handset is connected to my asterisk box through an iaxy.  With the
>>exception of this voicemail prompt problem everything else seems to work
>>fine.  The relevant portions of my voicemail.conf and extensions.conf are
>>list below:
>>
> 
> 
> If you do an Answer and then a Wait(2) before going to VoiceMailMain in your dialplan does this solve the issue? It might just allow time for everything to settle but I can't say I've ever heard of someone getting audio like you're describing.
> 
> 

Back in the day such a thing used to happen as part of the ADSI stuff 
that was in the codebase.

Or at least that is what I was told caused the screeching at the 
beginning of the voicemail mail entry.  This has been a long time ago, 
but the description in the email describes that behavior perfectly.

FWIW.

B.

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