[Asterisk-Users] Sound file quality

Steven Critchfield critch at basesys.com
Mon Aug 9 04:23:40 MST 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:07, David Gurr wrote:
> I'm building a phone-in demo system to use for introducing Asterisk to
> prospective clients.
> 
> One of the things I'm wary of is their likely preconceptions that VoIP
> systems will have poor audio quality.
> 
> As a result, I'd like to ensure that the voice prompts I'm using have the
> best possible audio quality.
> 
> Is it possible to use sound files at higher than 8kHz sampling? My callers
> will be coming in over PSTN to a VoIP gateway and then to me by uLaw/aLaw
> ... would higher sampling rates gain me anything in this configuration?

PSTN is 8khz sample rate. So obviously a higher sample rate will not get
you any where.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>




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