asterisk users - Aug 2021 - Saying Ordinal Numbers

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 8:19 AM <asterisk at phreaknet.org> wrote:
> On 8/10/2021 6:06 AM, Antony Stone wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 12:40:39, Dovid Bender wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there any way in Asterisk to say an ordinal number?
> > My sounds directory (en_UK) contains files with names such as
> "first.gsm",
> > "second.gsm", "ninth.gsm" etc.
> >
> > You could simply copy these to a subdirectory named
"ordinal" into
> filenames
> > like "ordinal/1.gsm", "ordinal/2.gsm" etc (the
same as you have already
> under
> > the "digits" subdirectory), and then use:
> >
> > Playback(ordinal/${DIGIT})
> >
> > The main limitation would be whether you want it to go beyond 20th
> (which is
> > far as those recordings go for me, except for the decades 30th,
> 40th...100th).
> The prompts for saying any ordinal number are all there: from 1 to
> 999,999,999 - they just need to be spliced together properly. I am
> currently in the process of refactoring core "Say" code and could
add a
> SayOrdinal() application while I'm at it. Would this meet your needs?
> NA
>
> Yes. That would do it. Come to think of it you should have that code
already from the queue (where it announces what caller number you are).


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On Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 15:16:11, Dovid Bender wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 8:19 AM <asterisk at phreaknet.org> wrote:
> >
> > The prompts for saying any ordinal number are all there: from 1 to
> > 999,999,999 - they just need to be spliced together properly. I am
> > currently in the process of refactoring core "Say" code and
could add a
> > SayOrdinal() application while I'm at it. Would this meet your
needs?
> > NA
> > 
> > Yes. That would do it. Come to think of it you should have that code
> > already from the queue (where it announces what caller number you
are).
Are you sure it says "you are currently third in the queue"?

I thought it said "you are currently at position number three in the
queue"...


Antony.

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