Hi! Does anyone of you have an idea how to detect an answering machine on a dialout call? I am working an a voicemail system wich calls the subscriber but I don't want to fill their answering machine. Maybe I could detect somehow if there is incoming voice when playing the message. usually real persons don't talk when they listen but answeringmachines do. ;-) Thanks in advance, Chris
Just start off with "Please confirm by pressing #" before getting too chatty. Then quietly wait five seconds -- if the other end doesn't dial #, hang up. If there's an answering machine, it shouldn't record anything.> -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Victor [mailto:christian@victormedia.de] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:47 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How to detect answering machine > > > Hi! > > Does anyone of you have an idea how to detect an answering > machine on a > dialout call? > > I am working an a voicemail system wich calls the subscriber > but I don't > want to fill their answering machine. > > Maybe I could detect somehow if there is incoming voice when > playing the > message. usually real persons don't talk when they listen but > answeringmachines do. ;-) > > Thanks in advance, > Chris
On 13-Aug-04, at 12:46 PM, Christian Victor wrote:> Hi! > > Does anyone of you have an idea how to detect an answering machine on > a dialout call?I have thought of timing the amount of silence there is at the start of a call, as an answering machine will usually start speaking as soon as the call is picked up. There would probably be a brief silence when a human picks up a handset. This would probably require a bit of work though. Brian.> > I am working an a voicemail system wich calls the subscriber but I > don't want to fill their answering machine. > > Maybe I could detect somehow if there is incoming voice when playing > the message. usually real persons don't talk when they listen but > answeringmachines do. ;-) > > Thanks in advance, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >