[Asterisk-Users] Re: wav instead of gsm for vm-sounds?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <432B744E.8040304 at digium.com>,
Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> Damon Estep wrote:
> > Do you simply replace the .gsm files with .wav files and it plays them
> > in these apps, or is there more to it?
> > 
> > I am talking about the built in functionality of vm, queues, agents --
> > not the playback app.
> 
> Every attempt to play a file in Asterisk (that doesn't specify the 
> extension) will use the 'best' format it can find for the call's format. 
> The applications that ship with Asterisk do not specify any particular 
> format, so your best bet is to provide the files in all the formats you 
> expect your callers to be using, so Asterisk never has to transcode a 
> file playback. The same thing is true for voicemail recording; you 
> should record in every format your users might call in with, unless the 
> extra disk space consumption would be an issue.

Do wav or sln versions exist of the standard Asterisk sounds by Allison?
I mean the versions before GSM compression was applied, not just ones
obtained by uncompressing the GSM again.

Cheers
Tony
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