Tones

Both the Play Tone and Extended Get Key tools generate or listen for tones. The following tables show the parameters for some of the more common tones you can listen for or generate.

Note: Because the Play Tone tool does not have an Off Time parameter, you will not be able to generate Busy, Congestion, Reorder, or Ringback tones. To play these tones, you should create a .WAV file containing the tone and play it to call.

The length information in the following table is listed in milliseconds. If you are using these values for the Play Tone tool, you must convert these values to seconds (divide the millisecond value by 1000).

The following table shows the parameters for busy signals, congestion, reorder, and ringback.

The following table shows the DTMF Tone Specifications. These are the same tones generated when a key is pressed on a telephone keypad.