[Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

[Mark Phillips]

Looks like I've drawn the short straw here.

I do have the facilities and so can do a Male Southern England recording
but I'm still stuck for female (which seems to be customers preference). I
also have the techincal know how as well as a web server.

OK folks, I'll start with the common things like numbers and the VM system
stuff etc. I'll post a link when I have something to start with.

Get a lot of call for French in New Zealand do you Matt?

Mark


matt.riddell at sineapps.com said:
> On 16 Sep 2004 at 20:37, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> No disrespect to Alison (whom I know is a Canadian) intended but her
>> "British" accent is exactly that; "British". It's very easy to hear
>> that she's not from Chipping Sodbury.
>>
>> Also, do you really have the budget to spend on having all the
>> relevant files recorded at $12 a time. That works out to a lot of
>> money!
>>
>
> Hate to state the obvious, but why don't you just record them
> yourselves.
>
> Options:
>
> 1) Beg, borrow or steal a microphone
> 2) Download the list of filenames, prompts contained
> 3) Record all prompts in one go, 1 after another with a 1-2 second
> gap between
> 4) Use some free audio editing software to snip the big file into
> little files, and save each one as the correct filename (albeit with
> .wav as the extension).
> 5) If you feel up to it, run a batch process over them to bring them
> all close to 0db
> 6) Use sox to convert to gsm files
> 7) Provide the resulting sound files as a free download from your
> website so that others don't have to do the same thing.
>
> I can help you with any step from 2 on (unless you want to come to
> one of my 2 studios here in New Zealand and borrow a microphone).
>
> Really the hardest part is splitting the files, but it only takes
> around a hour for the full set (I'm lucky, my wife who I recorded for
> the French prompts had also done School of Audio Engineering and so
> was able to use Wavelab to do the snipping etc.
>
> The other option is to just use the telephone and the asterisk
> dialplan to record the prompts, but I would say this would take
> rather a bit longer (unless you made a script that would record the
> first file, press # to confirm, record next file etc).
>
> Drop me a line if you need a hand with any of the above, should you
> devide to record them yourself.
>
> Matt Riddell
> (New Zealand Digium Distribution/Custom Software)
> http://www.sineapps.com/downloads.php (French Prompts)
> http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (asterisk news)
>



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Mark Phillips, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com/