asterisk users - Feb 2010 - Asterisk AUTHENTICATE Command

I was surprised to find that you can not override the default voice 
prompts when using the Authenticate Command.  I have viewed the source and 
the prompt file names are hard coded.  I am developing an application that 
use the Authenticate command to use "one use" PINs located in the
Asterisk
Database.  I had all of the recordings for the application recorded by a 
professional voice talent.  It seems odd that I can not specify an option 
when calling the Authenticate command to provide my own recordings.

The only 2 work arounds that I have come up with are - change the system 
recordings (which will change them for any application that uses the same 
recordings).  Or I could write my own application to authenticate the PINs 
and not use the authenticate command.

Does anyone else think that this feature would be useful or am I looking 
at this the wrong way?

Thanks.


Matthew A. Kolberg
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On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Matthew A Kolberg wrote:
> I was surprised to find that you can not override the default voice 
> prompts when using the Authenticate Command.  I have viewed the source 
> and the prompt file names are hard coded.  I am developing an 
> application that use the Authenticate command to use "one use"
PINs
> located in the Asterisk Database.  I had all of the recordings for the 
> application recorded by a professional voice talent.  It seems odd that 
> I can not specify an option when calling the Authenticate command to 
> provide my own recordings.
>
> The only 2 work arounds that I have come up with are - change the system 
> recordings (which will change them for any application that uses the 
> same recordings).  Or I could write my own application to authenticate 
> the PINs and not use the authenticate command.
>
> Does anyone else think that this feature would be useful or am I looking 
> at this the wrong way?
I have not tried this with the authenticate() application, but you can 
"trick" Asterisk into using your own prompts by [ab]using the
LANGUAGE()
function.

Something like:

 	exten = *,n,	set(LANGUAGE()=my-pin-prompts)

or

 	exten = *,n,	set(LANGUAGE()=my-pin-prompts/${CLIENT})

may work.

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