System for Phone Tree/Menu

Asterisk Asterisk General
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Sorry if this has been answered already but I’ve poked around on the various websites and haven’t been able to find anything…

I’m looking into building a system that has several levels of menus with recorded audio and options (think categories, subcategories and specific entries) that a user can traverse (ie hear) by calling into a normal phone number. Not knowing much about telephony, I thought of Asterisk. Is Asterisk the best solution to do this? I wonder if Asterisk would actually be overkill, as none of the other PBX features are needed. What do you advise?

Thanks for your help.

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Asterisk is a good solution for your needs, imho.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

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Thanks, Marco, for the advice. For a quick-and-dirty development box, will I need any hardware beyond a supported modem?

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You can go on without any hardware, you may just use just the sip channel, with it you can dial to/from pstn too through an itsp.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni