Category: Asterisk
Asterisk and Festival Integration
So… you want your PBX to talk to you? This could be the start of a very bad relationship! In this short piece, I’ll describe making Asterisk on Debian/Ubuntu talk to Festival that is also installed on a Debian or Ubuntu server. Firstly, have a read at VoIP-Info but don’t […]
Read MoreAsterisk Jabber Call Notifications
The other evening I busied myself with tweaking Asterisk to do some more geeky things. One such item was where I configured it to send a message to my Jabber account every time there was a call to a particular extension. Great for call logging, integration, and general user friendliness. […]
Read MoreA Reason to Hate Cisco
Last week I ‘accidentally’ bought a Cisco 7911 phone on Ebay. My bid was low, the device was missing a few bits, but I still thought I wouldn’t get it. Suffice to say… I’ve just written this piece on how to load the SIP firmware onto a Cisco 7911 phone. […]
Read MoreMore VoIP
To follow on from my previous post, I’ve gone about setting up SIP addressing like this for a very good reason. Other than the eventual demise of telephone numbers, I believe that larger VoIP networks will increasingly grow in size, whilst marginalizing the smaller networks. This is what happened to […]
Read MoreVoIP
Lately I’ve been poking around Asterisk and related VoIP stuff, and generally trying to make it work. I’ve (not) read my fair share of documentation, and it still seems pretty patchy. I’ve signed up for a free 0141 number from Sipgate and it seems mostly good. However, SIP addressing is […]
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