[asterisk-users] Asterisk choking on voice messages announcements

[Darrick Hartman (lists)]

Are your sound files being transcoded or played back in their native 
formats?

On 04/21/2010 12:25 PM, bruce bruce wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a weired situation where calls in and out are proceessed all
> right but when I dial *97 Asterisk is literally choking when it comes to
> announcements like "Password" or "Call from 205-456-2222". Each one of
> those announcements can take like 10+ seconds to finish with most of it
> not even compoundable.
>
> I run "top" and there is no heavy load on CPU or RAM. I dial out and
> it's all fine.
>
> Can you please give me some pointers as to where to look for the problem?
>
> Also, if I allow a call to go to voice-mail on my extension, the
> announcement, "The person at extension 4000 is not available" is also
> garbled and very slow like a choking sound. This is serious because
> people think they are have reached a faulty answering machine or just
> cut off because there is a long instance of silence sometime.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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