[Asterisk-Users] Announcing a call transfer

[Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)]

On Fri, January 6, 2006 15:46, Michael Sampson said:
> With our current pbx system, a call comes in from the PSTN to the
> receptionist. She then hits flash, which puts the caller on hold, calls
> my extension, says "so and so is on the phone for you", I say "ok put
> him through", she hangs up and I am connected to the caller.
>
> With asterisk at home I can it # then the extension to transfer to and it
> will ring there. But is there a simple way to announce the call before
> you transfer it. If not, does anyone have any good work arounds for this.
>
> --

It is called attended transfer.

See <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+PBX+functions>
And
<http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+config+features.conf>

HTH!

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