[asterisk-users] Replacement for Allison

[Matthew Rubenstein]

	Is anyone else interested in creating new voices for Festival (the
voice synth bundled with Asterisk) that might not be as good as
Allison's recordings, but are better than the current Festival voices?


On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:00 -0600,
asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:14:28 -0500
> From: Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Replacement for Allison
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> That worked... hrmm not that great... anyone know of any decent
> sounding
> recording of Allison for Asterisk?
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 11:26 PM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > for x in *.g711u; do mv "$x" "${x%.g711u}.ulaw"; done
> >
> > On Jan 23, 2008 5:00 PM, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Does anyone know what I need to do to get these:
> > > http://www.enicomms.com/cutglassivr/
> > >
> > > Sounds files to work?  I've tried loading them, but they are
> completely
> > > silent (format mis-match maybe?).  Specifically, when I try to
> enter
> > > voicemail, nothing plays... though it clearly tries.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for replacement sound files for the default Allison,
> as I
> > feel
> > > she is kind of breathy.  I have heard other sound files on other
> > asterisk
> > > sounds, done by her, and they sound fine... are there "two"
> recorded
> > > versions of the prompts floating around?
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein