asterisk users - Sep 2004 - Monitored outbound dialing via Zap interface?

I'm using a T100p to interface to a channel bank and from there to analog
PSTN lines. Because of my particular setup I have to do post-connect inband
DTMF dialing - which takes up to 5 seconds for a 10 digit number, assuming
0.5/sec per digit (ie. using "zap/g1/31|5|D(6045551212)". Even with an
'outside transfer' voice prompt before commencing dialing my users are
getting confused by the silence before connect.

 I'd like to be able to have 'monitored dialing' whereby they can
hear the
dialtone, digits and so on. Essentially bridge-before-connect, but with one
way audio so they can't inject anything into the dial sequence. Can anyone
suggest a method of achieving this from within the dialplan rather than
modifying the Dial() application itself?

Kris Boutilier
Information Systems Coordinator
Sunshine Coast Regional District

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 07:52, Kris Boutilier wrote:
>  I'm using a T100p to interface to a channel bank and from there to
analog
> PSTN lines. Because of my particular setup I have to do post-connect inband
> DTMF dialing - which takes up to 5 seconds for a 10 digit number, assuming
> 0.5/sec per digit (ie. using "zap/g1/31|5|D(6045551212)". Even
with an
> 'outside transfer' voice prompt before commencing dialing my users
are
> getting confused by the silence before connect.
> 
>  I'd like to be able to have 'monitored dialing' whereby they
can hear the
> dialtone, digits and so on. Essentially bridge-before-connect, but with one
Have you considered adding the r option to the Dial command, so they
might hear ringing instead of silence? (I'm not sure they will hear
ringing yet, but you might try it).

Even if that works, it might then confuse people when they hear it
ringing, followed by busy....

Regards,
Adam