A professional sounding Digital Receptionist in Asterisk

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

After setting up my Asterisk@Home server and do all the configuring to get all lines and extensions up and running, it was time for recording the Digital Receptionist messages. My first stab at it wasn’t that great, let’s face it, I’m no voice-over announcer. I wanted a little more professionally sounding recording. So I started to search the net for a way to do it, and I think I found a pretty good solution.

Adding blacklist to an Asterisk PBX Server

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Update: The code below does not work in Asterisk 2.0b4 or newer. I will update with instructions on how to get it to work in those versions. Thanks to Dan for pointing this out.

Update: I have changed the code to the removed part. It now requires a key press to accept the number to delete.

I have added a blacklist function to my Asterisk@Home server and thought that I’d share it here if someone is interested. There are two ways to add a number to the blacklist. The easiest is to dial *32. Then you get a voice telling you the number of the last incoming call. To add it to the blacklist, press 1. Great use against pesky telemarketers and If you want to add it manually, press *30. Then you can enter the phone number directly on your telephone. To remove an entry from the blacklist, press *31 and enter the phone number. If you don’t like the codes I use, change them.

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A professional sounding Digital Receptionist in Asterisk

Adding blacklist to an Asterisk PBX Server