[Asterisk-Users] compression quality of wav voicemail attachments

[Mark Spencer]

> Think scale for those not using asterisk in the home. MP3 doesn't
> compress that well for speech only, it is overkill. Use gsm and you will
> get almost 8 times compression. Also your disk usage would go down if
> you don't save in so many formats.

If you use WAV instead of wav for your attachments they'll be 1/10 the
size.  Just be sure WAV is the *last* entry in your format=line, so it
should read:

format=gsm|wav|WAV

and that should fix it for you.

Mark