alternate SCM. Was Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Linux leaves Bitkeeper: quite a dustup

[Mike Taht]

It's true that the cvs co of the sounds is the longest part of the
download... particularly the mp3s - and that there are many, many
useful sounds in the add-on asterisk-sounds cvs module. I wouldn't
mind if all sounds moved to a separate checkout - and it were made
easier for j.random.countryman to create the suite of essential
sounds, get them into scm, and manage them from there.

The thing is, creating a clean suite of all the "essential" utterances
is a huge task - my hat has long been off to Allison and her having
been funded by digium, voicepulse and others of the community for
creating such an elegant, useful suite.

I try to imagine a system, only a few years in the future, where there
are hundreds of different countries' utterances being stored in the
primary cvs tree, and I think that model breaks down.

I also would like it if the original sounds (.wavs presumably) were
available, so that it would be easier to store them in the highest
quality and most common codec for your system. Say, for example, that
most of your system's users were running speex, or g729 - sure you can
convert the sounds from .gsm to another codec on the fly, or all at
once manually via a script via sox or the like - but the highest
quality would be gained by using the original recordings,and
converting those to the required codecs. and the cost in disk space
not all that bad... 'cept on the checkout, as per above.
 


On 4/13/05, Andrew Thompson <asteriskuser at aktzero.com> wrote:
> Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > On April 13, 2005 05:27 pm, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > 
> >>Well, that'll get you a sound file, that's for sure.  But is that
> >>command downloading the vm-options.gsm that corresponds to
> >>apps/app_voicemail.c v248 or apps/app_voicemail.c v278 where two new
> >>options were added?
> > 
> > 
> > I was *only* talking about the default sound set.  I think it's ridiculous
> 
> > that they're in the CVS repo to begin with.  :-)
> 
> I think that's as ridiculous as the voicemail sound files being so hard
> coded to the current featureset.
> 
> I was thinking about working on the voicemail application such that the
> keys could be reprogrammed so features could be added/removed/moved
> around. As it stands, I'd have to have all the menu messages cut up and
> possibly re-recorded.
> 
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