Asterisk : the future of telephony This bestselling book is now the standard guide to building phone systems with Asterisk the open source IP PBX that has traditional telephony providers running scared! Revised for the 1.4 release of the software the new edition of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony reveals how you can save money on equipment and support and finally be in control of your telephone system. If youve worked with telephony in the past youre familiar with the problem: expensive and inflexible systems that are tuned to the vendors needs not yours. Asterisk isnt just a candle in the darkness its a whole fireworks show. Because Asterisk is so powerful configuring it can seem tricky and difficult.This book steps you through the process of installing configuring and integrating Asterisk with your existing phone system. Youll learn how to write dialplans set up applications including speech synthesis and voice recognition how to script Asterisk and much more everything you need to design a simple but complete system with little or no Asterisk experience and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge.