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Custom Voicemail Greetings in Asterisk

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 Custom Voicemail greeting in asterisk

how to set custom voicemail greeting asterisk


A user can access their voice mailbox by calling "*97", selecting "0" for Advanced Mailbox Options, and then selecting a number from "1" to "4" to record a specific type of greeting:
 Unavailable
 Busy
 User's Name
 Temporary Greeting

If you want to upload a pre-recorded voice as custom voicemail greeting for busy and unavailble status
make sure your vocie file should be PCM Encoded16 bits, at8000Hz mono format

copy your voice file to var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/100/
Note:** 100 is my extension for which the custom voicemail is to be changed

rename you voice file
cd /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/100
mv myrecording.wav busy.wav    -------------------- this is for playing while busy
mv myrecording.wav unavail.wav  -------------------- this is for playing while unavailable

changing the ownership
chown -R asterisk:asterisk busy.wav
chown -R asterisk:asteirsk unavail.wav

now make testcall

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