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ivr software manual functions 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_messages.

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.

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ivr_speak_messages()

int ivr_speak_messages(int call, char **prompts, int numprompts, int allow_interrupt)

The ivr_speak_messages function speaks a series of menu prompts 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 **

prompts

Array of null terminated string containing the text of the prompts to be spoken.

int

numprompts

Number of propmts in the prompts array.

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

char *prompts[129] = {
                "Press 1 For Sales.",
                "Press 2 For Customer Support",
                "Press 3 For Billing.",
                "Press star to quit."
   };

IVRDIGITS ivrd;

if(ivr_speak_messages(CALL_PRIMARY,prompts,4,INTERRUPT) != IVR_SUCCESS){
  ...handle error;
}