IVR Software Routine - ivr_speak


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IVR Software Library
ivr_speak_text

IVR Software API Manual

Database Systems Corp. (DSC) provides an API subroutine library of IVR Software routines that perform phone functions The following is a description of one of the functions within this library that controls the IVR operation - ivr_speak_text.

The routine is from our C programming library, although this same routine has an equivalent for Visual Basic, .NET, C++ and Active-X. DSC provides a separate user guide for each of these languages.

Contact DSC to obtain the most current IVR manuals in your required programming language.

ivr_speak_text()

int ivr_speak_text(int call, char *text, int allow_interrupt)

The ivr_speak_text function speaks a message to the specified call.

Parameters

int

call

Specifies which call speak to:

CALL_PRIMARY: Speak to Primary Call
CALL_SECONDARY: Speak to Secondary Call

char *

text

Null terminated string containing the text to speak.

int

allow_interrupt

Specifies if a digit can interrupt the prompts. It can be one of the following values.

NO_INTERRUPT: Do not allow prompts to be interrupted by a digit
INTERRUPT: Allow prompts to be interrupted by a digit

Return Value

Returns IVR_SUCCESS on a successful function call. On error the function returns one of the IVR Error Codes.

Example

if(ivr_speak_text(CALL_PRIMARY,"Welcome To My Company.",INTERRUPT) != IVR_SUCCESS)

   ...handle error;