[Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

[Steve Underwood]

matt.riddell at sineapps.com wrote:

>On 20 Sep 2004 at 12:38, Andreas Sikkema wrote:
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>>asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
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>>>Initially we recorded using 16 bit/8K sampling on the basis 
>>>that this is what is required by Asterisk but that was 
>>>really terrible.  So we're sampling at higher rates on
>>>the basis that we can use sox to change it as necessary.  Any
>>>thoughts on what we can do to make the recordings sound "sharper"?
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>>We've found that downbsampling with sox resulted in 
>>significantly lower quality files as those downsampled 
>>with Cool Edit.
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>Dithering in Cool Edit maybe?
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>Matt Riddell
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sox offers several ways to change sampling rates. The poorest one is 
really quite poor. The best should not be distinguishable from any other 
good converter over a telecphone line. Dithering is completely 
irrelevant for telephony. It too  LoFi to notice. :-)

Regards,
Steve