On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk....@sedwards.com>wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, gergis.rasmy wrote: > > > can i use MP3 files as an IVR prompts directly without converting to > > .gsm format? > > You don't want to do this. > > Asterisk will attempt to use prompts encoded with the same codec being > used for the channel. So, unless you have a channel that is using MP3, > Asterisk would have to transcode the prompt every time it is used. Why > would you want to "burn" CPU cycles for this useless activity? > > You should strive to have prompts available in all the channel encodings > actually used by your system. I have systems that only use ULAW, so all of > my prompts are encoded as ULAW. (Sometimes I "cheat" and use WAV files > since they are easier to work with and transcoding from WAV to ULAW is > "cheap.") > > How should I convert my .wav prompts into aLaw, uLaw, G729 ? Thx Vai
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