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Chapter 3: Telephone System Configuration
Voice Menus
A valuable feature of Asterisk is the ability to create Interactive Voice
Response (IVR) or voice menus. Voice menus are designed to allow for
more efficient routing of calls from incoming callers. The menus provide
a caller with specific instructions, receive responses from the caller, and
process those responses into an action.
Each Appliance ships with a default voice menu already created. To
better understand the creation and operation of these menus, we will
examine the default one.
Figure 17: Voice Menus
Voice menus are constructed depending on your needs. Just like your
business you need to create the solution best suited to your customers.
The best way to understand how a voice menu is constructed is to
examine the default “Welcome” menu provided with the Asterisk