asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Listening for DTMF when dialling (sorry, accidentally sent the previous message too early!)

Hi all,

I want to set up an extension which dials a group of phones while at
the same time plays a message ("Press 1 to leave a message") and
listens for DTMF. I haven't played around yet but the way I read the
docs this isn't possible as the dial command doesn't have appropriate
options and takes complete control of the channel. However surely this
is a normal thing to want to do? Am I right thinking it's not possible?

Are there any plans to have (say) a fork command which splits the
channel into 2 or more threads (passing audio from the first specified to the
caller) and another command (and option to dial) which make * abandon
the other threads and join the caller to the current thread? I'd say it
would make things like this a lot easier and * even more flexible ;)

Thanks,

Peter Spikings

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