[Asterisk-Users] Anyone else use Audacity for prompts?

[Shaun Ewing]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Capouch" <brianc at palaver.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Anyone else use Audacity for prompts?


> I am using Audacity to record some voice prompts.
>
> The .wav files I'm producing are of stellar quality.  However, once I
> turn them into .gsm, they sound buzzy and muffled.
>
> I know that some of this comes with the territory, but I wonder if there
> is anyone out there who does this routinely, and who can advise me as to
> the MO I could use that results in the highest quality in the resulting
> playback files.
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.

What are you using to convert the wav files to gsm? I've been using 'sox'
under Linux and have had no quality issues whatsoever.

An example line to convert:

sox file.wav -r 8000 -c 1 file.gsm

-Shaun