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[General] Multiple voicemail greetings, Youmail

One thing I wanted to do is have the option of switching my outgoing voicemail greetings on the fly. I asked a few carriers and it looks like Anveo is the only company that can do this. Not multiple greetings, but they have the option of uploading an audio file. That way, I could save multiple greetings on my hard drive - and upload when I want to switch. I don't know how time consuming that would be though.

I was looking at Youmail. It looks easy enough to setup and forward unanswered calls to Youmail. What I'm wondering is how easy is Youmail to use in everyday use with a VOIP service? Is it easy to check messages from an office SIP phone? Do you have problems with message waiting indicator?

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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Most companies that do hosted PBX with ivr capabilities will support upload of audio files. OnSip does for sure.

As an alternative you can use a soft phone and vemotion. Vemotion let's you inject a sound file into an ongoing call using standard soft phones. Thus you can play the file from your PC while rerecording the outgoing vm. I do this a lot.
idbit
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Man this is embarrasing. I didn't even know that hosted PBX was an option. I thought if you wanted PBX, you had to host it with your own server. This changes everything. Thanks!

rchandra
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PBXes.org is one such option. They have free and paid accounts.
idbit
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PBXes looks like it's in my price range, about $12/month for what I need + the price I pay to the VOIP provider. My volume is so low, I can't even justify the $40/month base business account that seems to be standard with the hosted PBX providers. (Even though that's less than half of what I'm paying now to AT&T. )

Since I'm new to VOIP, I think what I'll do is settle on a provider and phone, then just get it up and running - without PBXes. Then once I'm comfortable with it all, add PBXes to the mix.
gweidenh
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Just throwing out another option... Google Voice

You can set different greetings, and select between them anytime. Or do it automatically.

idbit
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Thanks gweidenh. I'll look into them.
petercarlos
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What your trying to accomplish here is called IVR( Interactive Voice Person). In order to configure IVR you must have PBX system. When you avail PBX services, you get a switch. You can easily customize this feature as per your own requirement with the user friendly interface; you can upload the audios as per your choice.
JoeSchmoe007
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Actually with Anveo you can upload multiple files to their servers and switch between them whenever you want via Anveo web interface without the need to access your PC.