[asterisknow] slow/choppy VM/IVR audio?

[James Lyons]

Rick Green wrote:
> I just installed the 1.0.1 release and configured it.  For the most part, 
> it seems an improvement over the Beta6 I had before, but in one respect, 
> it fails miserably:  The audio quality for all IVR prompts, as well as VM 
> playback, is so poor it's unusable.  The audio plays back 
> E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y slow, and chopped up, kinda like a '60s druggie on 
> quaaludes with a bad stutter.  The playback rate is about 1/4 of what I'd 
> expect, and the stutter is about 4/sec.  One has to listen very carefully 
> to be able to make out anything at all.
>    I had initially installed from the Beta4 iso, and had regularly updated 
> it, with no adverse effects (and no obvious improvements along the way, 
> either).  When the 1.0 release came out, I attempted the manual upgrade 
> using conary that was published on the blog (node/48450), but several of 
> those steps didn't appear to execute cleanly, so when the 1.0.1 iso came 
> out, I decided to do a clean install, but that resulted in a almost 
> unusable system.  I have a phone that can make and receive calls, but I 
> can't use any of the asterisk features that require voice prompts of any 
> kind.
>    Any idea where to go from here?
>
>   
This is a very peculiar issue. I have never really seen this happen. If 
anything things should have improved since beta6 w/ asterisk 1.4.5 
(1.0.1 w/ asterisk 1.4.17)

Can you provide specs on the system?
processor
memory