[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Astlinux-users] British English Female files ready for download

Tue May 16 07:55:35 MST 2006

Mark,

While these samples are pretty good they do not work "out of the box" -
there are a couple of issues:

1. the samples are 44100 samples/second and Asterisk needs them to
be at 8000 samples/second. This is what happens if you prune out all of
the Amercian voicemail prompts and substitute yours:

Asterisk 1.2.7, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2006 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'show warranty' for
details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it
under
certain conditions. Type 'show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1.2.7 currently running on pabx (pid = 17392)
Verbosity is at least 3
    -- Remote UNIX connection
    -- Executing VoiceMailMain("SIP/2002-2dff", "2002") in new stack
May 16 13:06:10 WARNING[24406]: format_wav.c:169 check_header: Unexpected
freqency 44100
May 16 13:06:10 WARNING[24406]: file.c:433 ast_filehelper: Unable to open
file on /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/vm-password.wav
May 16 13:06:10 WARNING[24406]: file.c:821 ast_streamfile: Unable to open
vm-password (format alaw): No such file or directory
May 16 13:06:10 WARNING[24406]: app_voicemail.c:5002 vm_authenticate: Unable
to stream password file
    -- Executing Hangup("SIP/2002-2dff", "") in new stack
  == Spawn extension (from-local-phone, 6000, 2) exited non-zero on
'SIP/2002-2dff'
pabx*CLI> quit

I've fixed this with a bit of shell script (below):

#!/bin/bash
#
# conv.sh -- convert the Alison Keenan Asterisk files
# Author: Mike Tubby mike at tubby.org
#
# This shell script converts the Alison Keenan Asterisk
# files supplied in 44100 samples/second to 8000 samples
# second so they work with Asterisk
#
# Put this script where you unpacked the tarball and
# execute it - the converted files will be in a subdirectory
# as specified by OUTDIR (below)
#
OUTDIR="./converted"
ASTDIR="/var/lib/sounds"

# make the directories
mkdir -p $OUTDIR/digits $OUTDIR/letters $OUTDIR/phonetic $OUTDIR/dictate
# locate the files and push them through 'sox'
find . -name "*.wav" -exec sox {} -r 8000 $OUTDIR/{} \;
# copy them into asterisk
#cp -arv $OUTDIR $ASTDIR

2. some of the filenames do not match precisely with the commedian
voicemail system resulting in the system doing a "file not found" and
hanging up in the middle of use.  So far I have found

    vm-old.wav    needs to be:    vm-Old.wav
    vm-pressonefor.wav    needs to be:    vm-onefor.wav

and I've got stuck with option 2 (change folders) here:

   -- Playing '/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/2002/Old/msg0000' 
(language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-advopts' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-deleted' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-nomore' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-advopts' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-repeat' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-undelete' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-changeto' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-press' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'digits/0' (language 'en')
    -- Playing 'vm-for' (language 'en')
May 16 15:29:41 WARNING[27178]: file.c:509 ast_openstream_full: File 
vm-INBOX does not exist in any format
May 16 15:29:41 WARNING[27178]: file.c:821 ast_streamfile: Unable to open 
vm-INBOX (format alaw): No such file or directory
  == Spawn extension (from-local-phone, 6000, 1) exited non-zero on 
'SIP/2002-b543'

where you appear to have no equivalent prompt for "vm-INBOX.wav"

Another little observation is that a few of the samples sound a bit 
"clicky", like they
don't start cleanly on a zero crossing... and a couple have variable 
volume/level...
have you put them through something like Audacity and cleaned them up?

Regards

Mike Tubby G8TIC

PS. We do IVR recordings too ... you can call our "virtual switchboard" on:

        01905 756700 (UK)  or +44 1905 756 700 (Intl)

where you'll hear my friend Heidi ... or 845-613 1328 if you're in the USA!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Bowyer" <peter at bowyer.org>
To: "Michael J. Tubby G8TIC" <mike.tubby at thorcom.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:37 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Astlinux-users] British English Female files ready for 
download

These are good....

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Phillips <g7ltt at g7ltt.com>
Date: 16-May-2006 04:30
Subject: [Astlinux-users] British English Female files ready for download
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>, Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk
on Compact Flash <astlinux-users at jail1.krisk.org>, Commercial and
Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>

With thanks to comedienne Alison Keenan, the female British English
audio files are ready for download at
http://www.enicomms.com/cutglassivr/

The files are currently only available in wav format (71MB) but will be
converted to other formats as time permits.

Please read the licence information prior to use.

Thanks

Mark

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