On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Jonathan H wrote:
I've googled and I'm probably missing something pretty newbie 101 here,
but is there any way, or fiddle, that I can play some audio to let the
caller know that their weather forecast is being fetched, which the two
agis are first recognising and then synthesizing the speech? I thought
"background" might do it, but it doesn't seem to work like that.
Did something similar a decade ago :)
I had a credit card processing AGI for an adult audiotext line. The owner
was a real stickler for the 'caller experience' and didn't like the dead
air waiting for the auth back from the card processor.
My solution was to kick off a thread (the AGI was written in C, so I used
pthreads) to play 'and get ready for a good time' and then issue the
request to the card processor and waiting for the response in the mainline
code.
By the time the prompt finished, I had the response so pthread_join would
'finish' off the thread cleanly and the dead air magically disappeared.
The only 'warning' is not to do any I/O to STDIN/STDOUT in the mainline --
that would violate the AGI protocol and lead to things breaking in weird
ways.
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Thanks in advance,
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