[Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

[Mark Phillips]

Yep. If your wife will do the voice work I'll chop the file.

Saarff Wimbuldon eh? Don't say as hour I never do nuffink for ya!

Don't forget to "translate" the relevant words. We don't have "zee" or
"pound" in English (of course, being a Brit you already knew that)

Mark


Bill Seddon said:
> My wife's got an appropriate Southern England (Wimbledon) accent and I'm
> sure she would try her hand.  Does anyone have a comprehensive list of
> the words that need to be said?  Matt, do you have them if your wife's
> done a set for French users?
>
> Mark, maybe you could chop up the file?
>
> Bill Seddon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Phillips
> Sent: September 17, 2004 2:32 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files
>
> 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)
>>
>
>
>


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