[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Alex Barnes wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner
>>Sent: 06 February 2006 17:48
>>To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk-
>>users at lists.digium.com; astlinux-announce at jail1.krisk.org
>>Cc: allison at theivrvoice.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
>>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>	As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my
>>"Asterisk Native Sounds" project.  Here's a little diddy from
>>astlinux.org:
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Kristian,
> 
> This sounds like a great step forward.
> 
> However since am from the UK we have to use a private set of prompts.
> The company that did them provided WAV format as well as GSM but I
> didn't really think about it and simply used the GSM pack provided as I
> assumed that was the recommended option.
> 
> Could you give me a little detail on what the best format settings are
> so that I can convert my UK set into uber ulaw processor codec.
> 
> Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that
> would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me
> out.
> 
> *I did try simply calling the .wav using Playback() but asterisk wasn't
> having any of it.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Alex
> 

Alex,

	Your WAVs are probably 16bit with a 44.1 (or 48kz) sampling rate. 
Asterisk can't resample (that's probably for the better).

	You need to resample them with sox.  See my (basic) scripts here:

http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/scripts/

	Once you have your prompts in 8bit, 8khz wav, you can use the convert 
module here:

http://redice.krisk.org

	To convert to anything you want.

P.S. - Do you have a full set of prompts, but with the Queen's English 
and a british accent?  If so, send me the WAVs, I'll do all the work and 
even host them for you!  Contact me off list.  Cool.

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Kristian Kielhofner