[Asterisk-Users] Digium TheVoice recordings' sound terrible

[Elliot Moore]

Helpful URLS about SOX/wav/gsm
Have you seen these?

Converting:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki- 
Convert+WAV+audio+files+for+use+in+Asterisk

Volume:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+sound+files

Other bits and bobs:
http://www.marko.net/asterisk/archives/0212/0384.html


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On 24 Oct 2004, at 11:37, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote:

> 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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