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Hi - I have been developing an auto-dialling application similar to Voiceshot, Call-em-all etc. The one thing I am now struggling to get working is the ability to leave a message on an answering machine or cell phone voicemail. I am using app_amd.c and while it works well for some phones it is proving to be very difficult tweaking the settings to get it to work reliable enough to go to

I have a [start] context that all my inbound and '0' calls are routed into. Because of the way I want to set my system up, I want to prompt the user to enter a 1 if they know the extension, or a 2 for a directory and nothing else. It works, however there is a 5 to 10 second delay after enter the 1 or 2 before the system responds. I have read over the wiki on how asterisk handles digit