[asterisk-users] 1.4 sounds long space before and after prompt

[Ry]

I noticed the same problem as well. I will see if I the old sound files
corrects the problem, or if it's actually a timing problem.
I have to say, I like the old sounds better, they sounded softer.
-Ry

On 12/17/06, Gil Kloepfer <astr-usr at kloepfer.org> wrote:
>
> Is anyone else finding in the new audio files that the longer space
> at the beginning and end of the files tends to be extremely irritating?
> An excellent example is when going into voicemail and Allison says how
> many messages you have, the space between the files is annoyingly long:
>
>    you have ...... four ...... old ...... messages
>
> ..and..
>
>   first ...... message ...... received ..... July ..... twenty ......
> second
>
> Under the old sound files, this continuity was still a little long,
> but workable.  The new sound files make these positively sound like
> a computer playing individual files rather than a continuous sentence.
>
> If I release these sound files as they are to my users, they are going
> to revolt.  They already complain about the old Octel VM system prompts
> being played back too slowly and these are much slower than that.
>
> I mentioned this a while back when the new sounds were in beta, but
> haven't seen anything more about it.  So either this says something
> about my and my users' level of patience, I'm missing something
> that changed between 1.2 and 1.4 that could fix this, or the
> focus has been on lower-level issues with 1.4 than on the sound files.
>
> With the new higher-quality sound files, I could manually edit all
> the offending files (there are lots of them) and correct what I perceive
> to be a problem.  However, if this is a common enough complaint, maybe
> others would want to help as well, and we could get the "fixed" files
> put back into core Asterisk.
>
> Note that this doesn't appear to be a problem with the speed of the
> sound files as some others have experienced.  The tempo is probably okay,
> and the pitch is fine.  It's the spacing between files that's the issue
> I'm talking about.
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
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> Gil Kloepfer
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