[Asterisk-Users] New sounds also now in CVS

[dpobanz at hastingsutilities.com]

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Quoting John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com>: 
>  
>    As to the specifications of directories for sounds in certain  
> groups: yes, I think that is a good idea, but I am unsure how to  
> implement it.  Mark and I touched on that last night while adding the  
> sounds to the CVS server, but I told him not to create a separate  
> directory for weather terms because it would be difficult splitting  
> the sounds into categories, which is perhaps only laziness on my part. 
>    I thought that in the future it would be difficult to determine  
> what words should be put in their own directories versus what words  
> should be moved to the "main" directory.  As an example, if one were  
> to do a network monitoring list of sounds (which, actually, I have  
> had Allison already do now that I look at my archives) then a partial  
> list of sounds would be "up", "host", "down", "dns" and "ping".  The  
> terms "host" and "ping" clearly should be in a directory with  
> monitoring sounds.  But... where would "down" go?  It's generic  
> enough that it should really go in the main directory.   However,  
> it's specifically a part of the monitoring sound set.  So where does  
> it go?  I couldn't come up with an answer on this, so I just ignored  
> the question for now.  :-)  Opinions welcome. 
 
It will probably be impossible to divide audio clips into different 
directories without duplication of clips or massive headaches determining 
direcories. My suggested method of handling this is to have all of the sounds 
in one directory and create multiple indexes. Each index would have listed all 
words/phrases for the topic. For example all weather terms would be placed in 
a "weather" index. Any phases needed for weather would be in here even if it 
appears in other indexes such as a "time" index or a "monitoring" index. The 
index would point to the actual audio clip of this common directory.  
 
The index for each topic could be a text file with a list of phrases with 
their corresponding file name. So there would be as many files (indexes) as 
catogories (ie Weather, monitoring, etc). When an audio clip was added it woud 
be added to one or more of these index files.  
 
We use a similar method on our intranet for indexing pdf files of USDS sheets.  
 
:|  
Upon further thought, perhaps an index could include another index. The index 
for "numbers" comes to mind since almost all of the others may include this 
one. Would we really want to repeat all of the numbers in an index?  
 
Anyhow, maybe I am just talking myself into a corner.  
 
Take the suggestion just as a point for further discussion.  
 
>  
> JT 
>  
 
-- 
Don Pobanz 

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