[Asterisk-Users] Digium TheVoice recordings' sound terrible

[Steve Totaro]

Option #4, send me the files and $100 via paypal and I will fix them for
you.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists" <benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:37 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Digium TheVoice recordings' sound terrible


> A customer has ordered some voice prompts from Digium's TheVoice
> online store. They say the recordings' sound was good when they
> listened to it on their Windoze boxes. However, then Asterisk is
> playing back the recordings, the volume is far too high and they sound
> really bad. This is particularly noticeable since the IVR menu mixes
> those ordered recordings with recordings that are already part of the
> Asterisk distribution. The volume of the included recordings are much
> lower and they sound much better than the ordered recordings.
>
> I wonder why Digium would deliver recordings that differ so much from
> the included set of recordings.
>
> However, the format the customer ordered was WAV, whereas all the
> included recordings are of course GSM. Has anybody had similar
> experiences? I tried to convert the WAV files to GSM using sox but
> since I don't know what parameters are best in this case, the results
> weren't satisfactory. Any suggestions?
>
> thanks
> rgds
> benjk
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