[asterisk-dev] Beta testers needed for new sound files

[John Lange]

I downloaded the ulaw standard prompts and dropped them into
the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

Just hitting the voicemail system, the default seems to playback a bit
differently.

"you have no messages" is more like "you have (pause) no (pause)
messages". The spacing on the rest of the menus sounds normal though.

There seems to be a slight hollow or tinny reverb quality to the sound
but it wouldn't be noticeable to most people.

And finally, I like the way the files were voiced a whole lot better.
Not nearly so "breathy" especially the "goodbye" which sounds a lot more
professional IMHO.

John

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:48 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> As anyone who has been following Asterisk 1.4 development knows, we are releasing new sound files as part of this release.
> 
> All of the files are created from brand-new 48KHz master files, and are being distributed in five formats (all at 8KHz): WAV, GSM, u-Law, A-Law and G.729. The FreePlay music-on-hold files are also being distributed in these formats.
> 
> In addition to the higher quality and pre-converted files, there are three languages available:
> 
> 1) English, recently re-recorded by Allison Smith
> 2) Spanish, newly recorded by Allison Smith
> 3) French, newly recorded by June Wallack
> 
> Additional prompts are available from these ladies via the Digium web site, if you are interested.
> 
> I have posted the tarballs containing these new prompts on the Digium FTP server:
> 
> http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds
> 
> I would appreciate people downloading them and trying them out; they will work just fine as a drop-in replacement for Asterisk 1.2 users, and of course anyone testing Asterisk SVN trunk can use 'make menuselect' to choose which files to download and install.
> 
> NOTE: Please do NOT post reports about these files on the bug tracker; all feedback related to these files (good or bad) must be kept on this list, preferably within this message thread. Thanks!
>