[asterisk-users] recommendation for German sound files

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi Philipp!

thanks for the detailed explanation.

Philipp Kempgen schrieb:

> 
> === Amooma ===
> 
> * http://www.amooma.de/asterisk/sprachbausteine/#prompts-tts
> These files are generated by our web-based text-to-speech engine.
> Pros: If you need additional custom prompts, just go to
> http://www.amooma.de/tts/ and generate them and the voice will
> match.
> Cons: Some of them don't sound right - yet. (But you can go to
> the web interface any time and regenerate them with better
> pronunciation in SAMPA alphabet.)
> I know that some work is going on here to improve them.
> 
> * http://www.amooma.de/asterisk/sprachbausteine/#prompts-gabi
> Professional recordings. About 5 prompts are missing.
> 
> * 3rd option: Gabi plus :-)
> Download the ones we use for Gemeinschaft
> ( http://www.amooma.de/gemeinschaft/gemeinschaft-installation-trunk.html#installation-trunk-single-debian-gemeinschaft )
> $ cd /usr/src
> $ svn checkout https://svn.amooma.com/asterisk-sounds-de/trunk asterisk-sounds-de-trunk
> $ cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/
> $ ln -s /usr/src/asterisk-sounds-de-trunk de
> The recordings are the same as "Gabi" but none are missing and
> they are in WAV format.
> => This is what I use personally.

I think I will try them.

> 
> 
> === Aegee ===
> 
> Out of date. (2004, Asterisk 1.0)
> 
> 
> === Schwärzl ===
> 
> These happen to be the well known soundfiles released by Stadt-
> verwaltung Pforzheim.
> Unfortunately they are for Asterisk 1.2 and the upstream is gone.
> (Stadt Pforzheim doesn't have them on their web site any more.)

These one I tried already.

IMO bad quality - volume variation and GSM only.

thanks
klaus