[Asterisk-Users] UK (english) sound files (Paul R

[Paul Redstone]

Sorry - still forget to clear the HTML flag - thought I'd better post again.

To add something to a post of a few days ago on this:
 
We're just putting in an asterisk system and wanted to have our own messages. 
We're Asterisk and are not yet live but the following works.
Our PA simply has a list of the extract from extensions.conf as shown below, 
calls a number e.g. 8004, then hears a beep, says the message and
then clicks #. It then plays back the message. It took her about 2 hours to do 
all the messages. The benefit of your own voice is that company specific 
messages sound consistent. We've also changed some of the prompts a little to 
Anglicise them - e.g. hash instead of pounds key.
 
The messages go immediately into the gb sounds folder so are active 
immediately.
We've also done the same with digits, letters etc - the scripts put the message 
straight into the correct folder.
 
The macro is intended to be enhanced so as to allow the message to be just 
played and also, in the future perhaps to use festival to read what should be 
said. The message list is taken from the asterisk wiki page on sounds and we'd 
adding in a few company specific ones.
 
Send an e-mail to soundsrequest at solica.com with subject "Sounds Request for 
Paul" and we'll end back the script once we have it done. 
The benefit of this is it is easy to add new scripts and to amend one. The 
[record-messages] context can be included just for some users and even disabled 
most of the time.
[macro-record-message]
;
; ARG1 file name of message, assumed to be in sounds folder, but if below has a 
subfolder name prepended
; ARG2 text describing message (NT YET USED)
;
exten => s,1,Wait(1)
exten => s,2,Record(/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/gb/${ARG1}:gsm)
exten => s,3,Wait(1)
exten => s,4,Playback(/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/gb/${ARG1})
exten => s,5,Wait(1)
exten => s,6,Hangup
 
[record-messages]
; Special context used to record voicemail messages
exten => 8001,1,Macro(record-message,hours,hours)
exten => 8002,1,Macro(record-message,minutes, minutes)
exten => 8003,1,Macro(record-message,auth-incorrect, Password incorrect. Please 
enter your password followed by the hash key)
exten => 8004,1,Macro(record-message,auth-thankyou, Thank you. )
exten => 8005,1,Macro(record-message,invalid, 'I am sorry, that is not a valid 
extension. Please try again' )
exten => 8006,1,Macro(record-message,pbx-invalid, 'I am sorry, that's not a 
valid extension. Please try again. ')
exten => 8007,1,Macro(record-message,pbx-invalidpark, 'I am sorry, there is no 
call parked on that extension. Please try again.')
exten => 8008,1,Macro(record-message,pbx-transfer, Transfer. )
etc
Paul