On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Bharath B. Reddy Bynagari wrote: > I am pretty new to Asterisk. I am trying to make sure some human being > answers the phone not the voice mail machine. How can I programmatically > identify that?
The "best" way is to ask the caller to press a key to continue. Most answering machines have difficulty with this. There are various "answering machine detection" schemes about. Google for Justin Newman and answering machine detection. He's put out some pretty cool tools in the past. -- Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
