asterisk users - Mar 2010 - Help with playing a recorded message in a conference.

Hello all,

My folks would like to play a message to answering machines automatically after
hanging up the phone.  So, when the caller dials the number of the callee, hears
an answering machine, they would like to enter a code on the phone and hang up. 
After the hangup the message plays to the callee and disconnects.  The message
that is played uses text to speech that is tailored to the callee, and there
will be multiple callers playing a message to multiple callees simultaneously.

I was thinking about doing an features.conf application map, but I am not sure
how to play the message.  One possibility is to have the dialplan create another
channel, bridge the two channels together, then play the message, but I'm
not sure of the best method of accomplishing this.

 Can someone help me with some ideas on this?  Does this sound like the correct
approach, or is there a better or easier way to do this that anyone can think
of?

Asterisk version is 1.6.2.6.  Thank you very much for your help in advance.

Thanks in advance.
Sean



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> One possibility is to have the dialplan create another channel, bridge
> the two channels together, then play the message, but I?m not sure of
> the best method of accomplishing this. 
Haven't touched 1.6.2 yet, so I'll speak in 1.4 terms:

No need for a conference, look at ChannelRedirect. Also consider to 
trigger this externally, for example with an extra BLF button that acts 
outside of the current call. But features.conf might also work.

Philipp

Hi!
> after hanging up the phone. So, when the caller dials the number of the
> callee, hears an answering machine, they would like to enter a code on the
> phone and hang up. After the hangup the message plays to the callee and
> disconnects.
There is an even simpler way: Just blind transfer the call, and your 
"code" is the transfer target.

Philipp