[asterisk-users] Toll Free International Number
Hello All, I am looking to find a way to provide international toll free access to our Knoxville, TN (USA) office from our customers in the UK and in Australia, and when I talked with AT&T I was surprised to find out how expensive they are... Surely, other businesses are not paying this much - are they?!?! Can someone in this good group please help me with some advice as to who can provide affordable and reliable international toll free service for a better price than AT&T? Thanks in advance, Larry Costigan Food Donation Connection (Asterisk fan and ABE user) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] swift.conf - cepstral voice quality adjustment options
Hi all,
I hope that I'm not breaking protocol too much by posting a message in this
group about a problem that I'm having with an Asterisk Business Edition
installation, but the reason that I'm posting here is because the problem
that I'm having isn't really with the Business Edition, it is with the
Cepstral text to speech product that I'm using with it, and also because this
group has so much more activity that I'm really hoping that somewhere in
this great Asterisk community there are some clever people who might have
some good suggestions to help me improve the voice quality on this system.
I have a phone switch configured with Asterisk Business Edition (B.2.3-2-1)
and I have installed a single license for the Cepstral voice, Callie. I am
using the Swift application call within the asterisk dialplan:
Within /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf --
exten => s,n,Swift(Callie^Hello this is a cepstral voice named
Callie.)
And the php class phpAGI2, for interfacing with the Asterisk Gateway
Interface:
Within /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/lookupAgency.php --
$agi->swift('The agency nearest to your store is '.$agency_name);
Both of these calls use the Callie voice and translate the text into speech,
but the voice quality seems to be less than ideal. The voice sounds much
more 'robotic' than the demonstration on the Cepsral site, and the
pronunciation is noticeably slurred in areas. I have looked and looked all
over to try and find documentation on how I can make any improvements to the
voice quality. I have contacted Digium and Cepstral, but neither had much
to offer in the way of support. I have googled and googled, but I can't
seem to find anything that helps. I see that there is a file called
'/etc/asterisk/swift.conf' but all that is in it is the single entry:
[general]
voice=Callie; the name of the Cepstral voice
I'm wondering if there are other swift.conf entries that I might be able to
use to help improve the voice quality? Command line options?? Or, maybe
there are other options available?? I am open to anything that might help.
Anyone who is interested in hearing the quality can call in and hear it at
865-288-6300. This is an IVR system that will be rolled out to support
World Hunger Week. Stores will begin calling in during the week of October
1st, so we are very near the roll out date.
I have not yet purchased the concurrency license from Cepstral because of
the voice quality concerns. So if more than one call is received
simultaneously right now, all but the first will hear a licensing alert
along with the scripted text.
Any help or suggestions as to what I can do to improve the voice quality is
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Larry Costigan
Food Donation Connection
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Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk w/MS SQL Server 2005
I've got an Asterisk switch that is going to run an IVR menu with a database interface that will be doing lookups based on the user entered data and then reading back strings with the appropriate data integrated into the text. I have found quite a bit of data on using MySQL as a database with Asterisk, but I haven't found much about using MS SQL Server with Asterisk... We have a SQL Server 2005 database server that has all the data that is needed for the IVR interface, and it would be great if we could interface directly with it using Asterisk. Does anyone have any suggestions on even attepting this? Another option might be to setup Asterisk to interface with MySQL and then work out the details of exchanging data between MySQL and SQL Server... Any and all help is greatly appreciated!! -Larry ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] RAW asterisk!
"Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" aka the "Starfish Book" (becuase of the starfish on the cover) is a great place to start... O'Reilly and the authors have been kind enough to make the entire book freely available online: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11 Have fun... And welcome to Asterisk!! :-) -Larry On 8/16/07, Barry L. Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill Andersen wrote: > [snip] > > Would I be better off starting with: > > > > a) Plain old asterisk from asterisk.org? > > (tutorial suggestions?) > > > > b) AsteriskNow > > > > c) Trixbox (not Pro) > > > > d) other suggestions. > > > > Hi Bill. > > My first deployment was TrixBox. The two I am currently working on are > "Plain Old Asterisk". Keep in mind that I'm an old Linux jock, and a > 30-year veteran of programming, so the only thing I had to learn was > Asterisk. If you pick that route, you'll need to learn Linux (or BSD, > or whatever you're going to us as an OS) as well as Asterisk. > > As far as tutorials, just pick up a copy of "Asterisk: The Future of > Telephony." Most of the "howto" for compilation is there, albeit > somewhat dated until the newer version of the book hits the press. > > I will say that I don't ever intend on using a GUI again. I'm so used > to text files for configuration of everything else I use Linux for that > the manual configuration seems so much more natural. > > That's my two cents. > > Barry > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGxJ4CCFu3bIiwtTARAvMzAJ4xIgA+PAzcS2Jrx5EUzyKo6JFqswCgmith > tr93sIPre5AjI1EMacaLtas= > =mW67 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > ___ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
