[Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

[Mike M]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:15:06PM +0100, Paul Redstone wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In the end we found it easy to record our own using this section in 
> extensions.conf. This also meant that we could add our own company specific 
> ones in the same voice (not shown here). Basically you get someone to dial the 
> 8NNN1 to record or 8NNN2 to playback. The prompts are shown below and we just 
> printed out this text. It was our intention to use festival to read these, but 
> this was easier. The text has been amended to reflect the UK (e.g. Hash instead 
> of pound).
> 
> Many sites may not need all of them and if you omit them the US voice will play 
> instead. 

This looks interesting!  That's a lot of work you're sharing. Thanks.

I think the "same voice" is good idea and having a parochial
voice is important as well.  Has any enterprising person thought of a
download service for this stuff?

> exten => _8015X,1,Macro(record-message,gb/tt-allbusy, All representatives of 
> the household are currently assisting other telemarketers. Please hold and your 
> call will be answered in the order it was received. )

That's funny.  The National Do Not Call list in the US seems to be working so 
there's not as much need for it.  Politicians wisely insulated themselves from 
the effects of the list. During election campaigns, this might be useful:

exten => _8015X,1,Macro(record-message,gb/tt-allbusy, All representatives of 
the household are currently assisting other politicians. Please hold and your 
call will be answered in the order of what you are willing to do in
order to get my vote. )

-- 
Mike