[Asterisk-Users] Re: wav vs gsm sounds

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <BAY18-F184EB28A5EC46CBD4DB9ECECAA0 at phx.gbl>,
Akpome Akpoguma <akpome_a at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have been wondering why asterisk is using gsm when it can just use a wav 
> file format instead.
> >From some of the snippets of what I read I was made to understand that gsm 
> files eat up
> more resources.
> Pls can anyone give me a good reason for this.

Two things (the first applies to everyone, not just yourself):

1. PLEASE, when starting a new topic, DON'T reply to an existing message,
   but instead, create a new message. Otherwise your message gets threaded
   in with other non-related messages. Having just read your message, I
   wanted to go back and find it again so I could reply, but it was buried
   in the middle of a three-week-old thread!

2. I'm not sure what the original reason was, but you will find the folliwing
   URL interesting, as a source of Asterisk prompts re-done in various file
   formats:

   http://www.astlinux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=43

In my opinion, any new Asterisk sounds should be put in the tree in four
formats at least: .wav, .al, .ul, .gsm

Cheers
Tony
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