[Asterisk-Users] low quality sound samples

[Steve Underwood]

Corvin wrote:

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>>Adjust your expectations to telephone quality. Everything is based
>>around 8khz samples and at best around 14 bit quality. The GSM files
>>should be around cell phone quality due to the codec. You are welcome to
>>rerecord any sound prompts you wish and use them at a slightly higher
>>quality but 8khz 16bit PCM is the highest quality you can use.
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>Heh sorry but I can't agree with you I am very familiar with GSM technology
>and I use every day cellphone with EFR codec. And voice quality of what I can
>hear from kphone is much worse :(.
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Not that it is particularly relevant to your issue, but * doesn't use 
EFR. It uses 06.10, the original GSM codec. EFR is encumbered by Nokia 
and other patents (and isn't that interesting anyway).

Steve