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Listen in / call spy / call coach... what have you..

Posted by stephenkkaye on Mon, 03/26/2012

Is anyone familiar with a script available to be able to listen in and/or barge in on a call? My previous experience with asterisk has mostly been with a system called Enswitch. They offered this and it seemed to work very well. TL seems to be highly configurable (the reason i went with this solution over Enswitch) aside from the obvious cost difference.

I want to be able to create a feature extension, say *77xxxx that will allow my customer to listen in on a call. Ideally I want to also be able to create a similar feature that will allow my customer to speak to either side of the conversation, but only be heard by the one with whom he's speaking. Previously I had to specify the CALLED PARTY or the CALLING PARTY.

Thank you in advance for your help.


Submitted by eeman on Wed, 03/28/2012 Permalink

easy way or hard way?

iSymphony has this feature already built in and all you do is click the barge icon on the profile that is having a conversation..

the hard way is to write a script, but that script wont have NEARLY the security that isymphony has in place. iSymphony not only restricts WHO can record a call but to WHOM the barge can be performed on.

Submitted by stephenkkaye on Wed, 03/28/2012 Permalink

Thanks Erik,

However I have been playing around with the script. (unsuccessfully) My customers have been used to dialing a command and entering the call. Getting them to use software running on a computer won't be something these particular few will want to do.

isymphony seems to cost money. I see a 595.00 dollar fee. Is this something I would purchase as a provider, load on my server and then my customers pay the lesser 19 dollars to utilize the client software?

Submitted by eeman on Tue, 04/03/2012 Permalink

isymphony works this way..

$595 for server license (comes with 1 tenant licence, 1 client connection, 1 queue)

additional tenants costs $200
additional queues costs $50
additional client connections for each tenant costs $20

as far as what you charge your customer, thats entirely up to you.. you could charge them a monthly per-seat costs that recoup this cost over time.