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Starting things off without a Dial Tone

Posted January 16, 2012 by Pavel Espinal & filed under Advanced Dialplan, Asterisk Tips Comments: 0.

Tags: analog phones, astcomments, asterisk, chan, dial tone, dialling tone, extension, handset, handset lifted, sip phone, sound, tone

Is it possible to make Asterisk jump into action and play a sound file as soon as a handset is lifted, instead of providing a Dial Tone and waiting for the user to dial an extension.With analog phones (chan_dahdi) – you just have to set ‘immedi..

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Speech recognition in Asterisk using Google Voice API

Posted January 3, 2012 by Pavel Espinal & filed under VoIP News Comments: 30.

Tags: API, astcomments, asterisk, asterisk google voice, google voice api, google voice transcription api, linkedin, pound key, recognition service, speech, speech recog, speech recognition, Speech recognition in Asterisk, text to speech

Im exited to announce that Lefteris Zafiris has written an agi script that uses Google Voice API for voice recognition.As the author says, the script records from the current channel untill the pound key (#) is pressed or the timeout (15 seconds)..

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Astcanary

Posted November 24, 2010 by Pavel Espinal & filed under Asterisk Tips Comments: 1.

Tags: alt, astcanary, astcomments, asterisk, asterisk astcanary, coal miners, linkedin, linux, login shell, methane gas, process, programming, realtime priority, RPC, scope, system, TCP/IP, TCP/IP and RPC programming, time, tweet, tweet tweet, var

What is Astcanary?, basically, it is a little application that provides assurance to Asterisk that there are no threads that have gone into runaway mode, thus hogging the CPU, and making the Asterisk machine seem to be unr..

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