I work for a call center and we are looking at using asterisk to have our operators take calls. Our message taking software records all the calls on the operators computers. Right now we use these recording controls from radio shack that plug in between the wall jack and the phone and plug in via a 1/8 inch stereo connector to the mic input on the computer. If I buy an IP phone I can't do that. I could get an FXO adapter and regular phones, but I'm looking to get as little equipment as possible. Radio shack makes a recording control that plugs in to a 2.5 mm headset jack, but it takes batteries so thats not going to work Does anyone else do something similar? Does anyone have any ideas about what producs/setup would work for this. -- Michael Sampson Information Systems Manager Customer Contact Services msampson@yourccsteam.com 952-936-4000
Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
2006-Jan-06 07:53 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Recording Calls at the phone
On Fri, January 6, 2006 15:37, Michael Sampson said:> I work for a call center and we are looking at using asterisk to have > our operators take calls. Our message taking software records all the > calls on the operators computers. Right now we use these recording > controls from radio shack that plug in between the wall jack and the > phone and plug in via a 1/8 inch stereo connector to the mic input on > the computer. If I buy an IP phone I can't do that. I could get an FXO > adapter and regular phones, but I'm looking to get as little equipment > as possible. Radio shack makes a recording control that plugs in to a > 2.5 mm headset jack, but it takes batteries so thats not going to work > > Does anyone else do something similar? Does anyone have any ideas about > what producs/setup would work for this. >Asterisk has a built in monitoring system. You can chose to do Always, Never or On Demand monitoring, depending on your setup and dialplan <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Monitor> Good luck! -- F Peeters PIII 450 - 1 GB - * 1.2 - BRIstuff 0.3.0 Pre 1 - Florz patch 2 Sweex HFC-PCI modes=2 sync_slave=2 timer_card=0 Cologne HFC-S pins #52, #54, #55 connected in parallel for synching. AMD Duron 1GHz - 1GB - * 1.2.1 2 Sweex HFC-PCI cards
Asterisk has call recording capabilities built in. it will offer you far more functionality than what you currently are using (better control, archiving and ability to export to third party analysis). I suggest you do some research on this area of asterisk capability and then suggest to the call centre manager you migrate this functionality to asterisk. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Sampson Sent: Friday, 6 January 2006 9:38 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Recording Calls at the phone I work for a call center and we are looking at using asterisk to have our operators take calls. Our message taking software records all the calls on the operators computers. Right now we use these recording controls from radio shack that plug in between the wall jack and the phone and plug in via a 1/8 inch stereo connector to the mic input on the computer. If I buy an IP phone I can't do that. I could get an FXO adapter and regular phones, but I'm looking to get as little equipment as possible. Radio shack makes a recording control that plugs in to a 2.5 mm headset jack, but it takes batteries so thats not going to work Does anyone else do something similar? Does anyone have any ideas about what producs/setup would work for this. -- Michael Sampson Information Systems Manager Customer Contact Services msampson@yourccsteam.com 952-936-4000 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Demand-monitoring? If your referring to monitoring specific agents calls, I'm still trying to work out how to do that. You can either monitor all calls for a queue, or all calls for all agents, but not all calls for a specific agent. I tried to use the Monitor() command on it's own to start recording when an agent receives a call, but that does not appear to work. -----Original Message----- From: Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) [mailto:francesco@fampeeters.com] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:53 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Recording Calls at the phone On Fri, January 6, 2006 15:37, Michael Sampson said:> I work for a call center and we are looking at using asterisk to have > our operators take calls. Our message taking software records all the > calls on the operators computers. Right now we use these recording > controls from radio shack that plug in between the wall jack and the > phone and plug in via a 1/8 inch stereo connector to the mic input on > the computer. If I buy an IP phone I can't do that. I could get an FXO > adapter and regular phones, but I'm looking to get as little equipment > as possible. Radio shack makes a recording control that plugs in to a > 2.5 mm headset jack, but it takes batteries so thats not going to work > > Does anyone else do something similar? Does anyone have any ideas about > what producs/setup would work for this. >Asterisk has a built in monitoring system. You can chose to do Always, Never or On Demand monitoring, depending on your setup and dialplan <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+Monitor> Good luck! -- F Peeters PIII 450 - 1 GB - * 1.2 - BRIstuff 0.3.0 Pre 1 - Florz patch 2 Sweex HFC-PCI modes=2 sync_slave=2 timer_card=0 Cologne HFC-S pins #52, #54, #55 connected in parallel for synching. AMD Duron 1GHz - 1GB - * 1.2.1 2 Sweex HFC-PCI cards _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users