On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:15:19PM -0500, Jeronimo Romero wrote: > I'm going to be rolling out asterisk at a small office and one requested > feature was the ability to have a phone that can be configured so that > ringtones can be configured according to the callerid of the caller. > Does anyone have Asterisk experience with such a phone? Any suggestions > would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance!!! > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Many phones can do this. Some have only a limited set of tones that don't vary much. Most phones can do the basics. Some let you have some uploaded wav file ringtones. A smaller number such as the SNOM phones and a few others can actually be given the URL of an audio file as the ringtone, and the phone will download it and play that. I haven't tried it, but it should be possible on the SNOM to: a) Have festival, cepstral or other TTS turn the caller id into an audio file (ideally cached) b) Put that audio file on a local web server c) Set the URL of the audio file as the ring tone. You usually set the ring tone with the SIP Alert-Info header, however various phones use different syntaxes. Do a search on voip-info for terms like "ringtone" and "alert-info" for instructions on how to set them. Of course, you can also do things like generate the audio and have your computer, or a nearby computer, play the sound so you get it reading the name or number. Or you could generate your own audio files for the people who call you regularly rather than that trick. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
