Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Yes, it seems that I was somewhat in error. Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com kevin ling wrote: In my remember, when playback a file. The Asterisk will automatically choose the audio file with the lowest conversion cost. Not always looks the filename.gsm. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:46 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Yes you can copy them into the same directory as the current files. Kris recommends that you move your existing files for safety only. The mode (ULAW, GSM etc) is selected by Asterisk depending upon what mode the current caller is using. Have you noticed that you don't have to put a file extension on the end of a Playback instruction? This is because Asterisk looks for filename.mode when trying to play a file. In the event it can't find filename.mode it looks for filename.gsm. If the file it's playing is not encoded using the current mode it has to transcode the gsm file into whatever is required. This not only adds computing overhead to the call in progress but degrades the quality of the file as all such transactions are lossy. Understand? Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Hello Kristen, Good work though! But I need * to promt the sounds in different languages not included within *, if in case I have the sound files of my own. I'm not really sure how I could do that? Truely/ Joe From: Benoît Mérouze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussionasterisk-users@lists.digium.com To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussionasterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:01:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from lists.digium.com ([69.16.138.164]) by bay0-mc7-f1.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 00:03:49 -0800 Received: from digium-69-16-138-164.phx1.puregig.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])by lists.digium.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972B74040;Tue, 7 Feb 2006 01:01:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from psmtp.com (exprod8mx36.postini.com [64.18.3.136])by lists.digium.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 652B84026for asterisk-users@lists.digium.com;Tue, 7 Feb 2006 01:01:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from source ([193.252.148.251]) (using TLSv1) byexprod8mx36.postini.com ([64.18.7.10]) with SMTP; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:01:33 MST Received: from [192.168.1.101] (m3.net85-168-35.noos.fr [85.168.35.3])(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))(No client certificate requested)by crocokoth.oxoxo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39F7A2367for asterisk-users@lists.digium.com;Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:01:32 +0100 (CET) X-Message-Info: TiNwL5K19MFX9MrXwMHbbqJvzhjfUChRVYEE/90A2YU= X-Original-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Delivered-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-pstn-levels: (S:92.82026/99.9 FC:95.5390 LC:95.5390 R:95.9108 P:95.9108M:97.0232 C:98.7678 ) X-pstn-settings: 3 (1.:1.) s fc lc gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [db-null] X-BeenThere: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussionasterisk-users.lists.digium.com List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users List-Post: mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2006 08:03:49.0164 (UTC) FILETIME=[06ECE6C0:01C62BBD] Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? [...] Hi Krisitian, Thanks a lot for doing this, that was a very good idea. Do you think you could also convert the high quality sound files in G723 format? -- Benoit Merouze Ingenieur Developpement d'Application Reseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Alex, I've been looking for someone whom speaks both with a Welsh accent and also the language. Ya'think you could persuade someone to speak Taff for us? As for my VM files, Kris is gonna send me the updated list and I'm gonna re-record them. I have a new Samson USB Condenser mic I'm dying to try out. Not a bad price at $79. Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Alex Barnes wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: 07 February 2006 19:23 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Kirs et al, I did this already. It's on my website. Your most welcome to use them Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Kristian Kielhofner wrote: SNIP P.S. - Do you have a full set of prompts, but with the Queen's English and a british accent? If so, send me the WAVs, I'll do all the work and even host them for you! Contact me off list. Cool. -- Kristian Kielhofner Hi Kris + Mark Sorry I don't think I can sent out the prompts as they were bought from a private company (http://www.westany.com/) £75 for a set I thought was quite reasonable for a commercial deployment. We did actually have Marks prompts for a while but at the time there were a few needed ones missing (bit of a strange mix of English bloke to American woman to welsh girl going on :P ). But the biggest draw to switch to Westany was very easy to get the custom welcome messages done, Welcome to BLAH you call might be recorded.. Thanks for the info though I will have a go at converting them this weekend. Alex Information contained in this e-mail and any attachments are intended for the use of the addressee only, and may contain confidential information of Ubiquity Software Corporation. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this email. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing signed by an officer of Ubiquity Software Corporation, nothing in this communication shall be deemed to be legally binding. Thank you. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
I've been looking for someone whom speaks both with a Welsh accent and also the language. Check this: http://isdnvoice.com he says he has access to a whole panoplie of Welsh speakers here: http://isdnvoice.com/services.htm ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Is a panoplie legal in Wales? I thought they did away with those at the same time as the Wooly Mountainside Brothels? Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Wilson Pickett wrote: I've been looking for someone whom speaks both with a Welsh accent and also the language. Check this: http://isdnvoice.com he says he has access to a whole panoplie of Welsh speakers here: http://isdnvoice.com/services.htm ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
If I understand this correctly, this sounds package is a subset of the Asterisk sounds package. Can I just copy the native sounds (eg. ulaw) in the existing sounds directory and Asterisk will automatically use them instead of the default gsm ones? How does Asterisk pick which one to play, does it know about the .ulaw extension? Doug,It looks like you have installed asterisk-sounds.asterisk-sounds is not included in the Asterisk Native Sounds Package.That is a separatecollection of prompts arranged by John Todd and contributed to thecommunity.I have already talked with him about that.Other people have brought this up too.Basically, I'll consider re-doing (and paying for) the sounds in asterisk-sounds based on thedonations I receive for what is provided so far in the Native AsteriskSounds package.--Kristian Kielhofner___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --Asterisk-Users mailing listTo UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Yes you can copy them into the same directory as the current files. Kris recommends that you move your existing files for safety only. The mode (ULAW, GSM etc) is selected by Asterisk depending upon what mode the current caller is using. Have you noticed that you don't have to put a file extension on the end of a Playback instruction? This is because Asterisk looks for filename.mode when trying to play a file. In the event it can't find filename.mode it looks for filename.gsm. If the file it's playing is not encoded using the current mode it has to transcode the gsm file into whatever is required. This not only adds computing overhead to the call in progress but degrades the quality of the file as all such transactions are lossy. Understand? Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Adrian A wrote: If I understand this correctly, this sounds package is a subset of the Asterisk sounds package. Can I just copy the native sounds (eg. ulaw) in the existing sounds directory and Asterisk will automatically use them instead of the default gsm ones? How does Asterisk pick which one to play, does it know about the .ulaw extension? Doug, It looks like you have installed asterisk-sounds. asterisk-sounds is not included in the Asterisk Native Sounds Package. That is a separate collection of prompts arranged by John Todd and contributed to the community. I have already talked with him about that. Other people have brought this up too. Basically, I'll consider re-doing (and paying for) the sounds in asterisk-sounds based on the donations I receive for what is provided so far in the Native Asterisk Sounds package. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com http://Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Kristian Kielhofner a écrit : Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? What tools did you use to convert the sounds in all possible formats? Asterisk's sound files become quickly limited, and it would be nice to have a way to build your own IVRs native formats. Cheers, Jean-Michel. -- Jean-Michel Hiver - http://ykoz.net/ Découvrez la Réunion des Technologies IP Telecom TEL: +262 (0)262 55 03 98 - RCS 434 273 330 SAINT PIERRE ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Kristian Kielhofner a écrit : Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? What tools did you use to convert the sounds in all possible formats? Asterisk's sound files become quickly limited, and it would be nice to have a way to build your own IVRs native formats. Cheers, Jean-Michel. See here: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/scripts/ and here: http://redice.krisk.org -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Adrian A wrote: If I understand this correctly, this sounds package is a subset of the Asterisk sounds package. Can I just copy the native sounds (eg. ulaw) in the existing sounds directory and Asterisk will automatically use them instead of the default gsm ones? How does Asterisk pick which one to play, does it know about the .ulaw extension? Adrian, Not quite. This is a re-implementation of the sound files provided with Asterisk. It includes %100 of the prompts provided with Asterisk. Some people also install the OPTIONAL asterisk-sounds package. This includes something like 1400 extra prompts (all in gsm format, btw). So, asterisk-sounds (as in the tarball or on CVS) is a SUPERSET of sounds for Asterisk. Asterisk will automatically choose the least expensive sound file to playback based on what codec the current channel is using. See show translation for more details. Example: channel: ulaw prompt available in: gsm, ulaw Asterisk will play: ulaw channel: g729 prompt available in: gsm ulaw Asterisk will play: ulaw channel: gsm prompt available in: g729 sln Asterisk will play: sln channel: g729 prompt available in: gsm Asterisk will play: gsm (the only thing available - ouch!) In that last example, Asterisk has to convert the gsm prompt into slinear (internally) and then convert it to g729. That increases latency (by probably at least 20ms in this case), reduces quality (two different loss based compression schemes), and uses CPU time. In short, Asterisk will play whichever prompt is cheapest, but if it really has to, it will play whatever it can find. It uses the file extension to determine this. See show formats too. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
In my remember, when playback a file. The Asterisk will automatically choose the audio file with the lowest conversion cost. Not always looks the filename.gsm. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:46 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Yes you can copy them into the same directory as the current files. Kris recommends that you move your existing files for safety only. The mode (ULAW, GSM etc) is selected by Asterisk depending upon what mode the current caller is using. Have you noticed that you don't have to put a file extension on the end of a Playback instruction? This is because Asterisk looks for filename.mode when trying to play a file. In the event it can't find filename.mode it looks for filename.gsm. If the file it's playing is not encoded using the current mode it has to transcode the gsm file into whatever is required. This not only adds computing overhead to the call in progress but degrades the quality of the file as all such transactions are lossy. Understand? Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? [...] Hi Krisitian, Thanks a lot for doing this, that was a very good idea. Do you think you could also convert the high quality sound files in G723 format? -- Benoit Merouze Ingenieur Developpement d'Application Reseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: 06 February 2006 17:48 To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: Hi Kristian, This sounds like a great step forward. However since am from the UK we have to use a private set of prompts. The company that did them provided WAV format as well as GSM but I didn't really think about it and simply used the GSM pack provided as I assumed that was the recommended option. Could you give me a little detail on what the best format settings are so that I can convert my UK set into uber ulaw processor codec. Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me out. *I did try simply calling the .wav using Playback() but asterisk wasn't having any of it. Thanks in advance Alex Information contained in this e-mail and any attachments are intended for the use of the addressee only, and may contain confidential information of Ubiquity Software Corporation. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this email. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing signed by an officer of Ubiquity Software Corporation, nothing in this communication shall be deemed to be legally binding. Thank you. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:48 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: Which format would be best/cpu-easiest on an analog channel like the Wildcard X100P? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me out. Prep your WAV's as 8Khz mono. In a pinch, Windows sound recorder will do. Then: GSM: #/bin/sh for I in *.wav do sox $I `basename $I .wav `.gsm done Ulaw: #/bin/sh for I in *.wav do sox $I `basename $I .wav `.ul done hth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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You know, I'm still a little confused. Kristian, the original poster, said... I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. Was there really an extra 1400 sound files added from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.2.4? Sorry, but I'm just not getting it here. Must be missing something. Doug. -Original Message- From: Kevin P. Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Douglas Garstang wrote: Thanks for the reply Kristian, but you've completely confused me. Asterisk-sounds is the default set of sounds on digium's website? No. The default sounds are in the Asterisk distribution itself. The asterisk-sounds package is separate, and none of the built-in applications expect those sounds to be present. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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No, what was rerecorded was the sounds that come with the asterisk package. Digium has another package called asterisk-sounds that has many additional sounds - that package was not rerecorded. Douglas Garstang wrote: You know, I'm still a little confused. Kristian, the original poster, said... I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. Was there really an extra 1400 sound files added from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.2.4? Sorry, but I'm just not getting it here. Must be missing something. Doug. -Original Message- From: Kevin P. Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Douglas Garstang wrote: Thanks for the reply Kristian, but you've completely confused me. Asterisk-sounds is the default set of sounds on digium's website? No. The default sounds are in the Asterisk distribution itself. The asterisk-sounds package is separate, and none of the built-in applications expect those sounds to be present. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Douglas Garstang wrote: You know, I'm still a little confused. Kristian, the original poster, said... I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. Was there really an extra 1400 sound files added from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.2.4? Sorry, but I'm just not getting it here. Must be missing something. Doug. Doug, When you checkout Asterisk (or download the tarball), look at all of the .gsm files that go by. These are the minimum prompts for applications like voicemail, dictate, etc to work. Look at the sounds.txt file in the Asterisk source. These are the Asterisk 1.2.x prompts. Kevin Fleming's response goes over this. Now, there is also a huge set of supplemental prompts available in a seperate release called asterisk-sounds. These are useful (but not necessary) prompts for doing things with Asterisk (like reading back the weather, etc). There are many, many more of these. It looks like you installed them at some point (like most do). They will then live in the same sounds directory as the normal Asterisk sounds. They will persist across updates of Asterisk. Does that help? -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Colin Anderson wrote: Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me out. Prep your WAV's as 8Khz mono. In a pinch, Windows sound recorder will do. Then: GSM: #/bin/sh for I in *.wav do sox $I `basename $I .wav `.gsm done Ulaw: #/bin/sh for I in *.wav do sox $I `basename $I .wav `.ul done hth It's usually better to record with 44.1 (or even 48khz) and resample with sox (to 8khz). Then use this: http://redice.krisk.org To convert them to the various Asterisk formats. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:48 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: Which format would be best/cpu-easiest on an analog channel like the Wildcard X100P? b. Brian, As of Asterisk 1.2 I believe that slinear is the default internal audio format (what everything that needs to be transcoded ends up as internally). Therefore the slinear/sln prompts would be your best bet. However, unless disk space is a problem grab them all! It can't hurt! -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Alex Barnes wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: 06 February 2006 17:48 To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: Hi Kristian, This sounds like a great step forward. However since am from the UK we have to use a private set of prompts. The company that did them provided WAV format as well as GSM but I didn't really think about it and simply used the GSM pack provided as I assumed that was the recommended option. Could you give me a little detail on what the best format settings are so that I can convert my UK set into uber ulaw processor codec. Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me out. *I did try simply calling the .wav using Playback() but asterisk wasn't having any of it. Thanks in advance Alex Alex, Your WAVs are probably 16bit with a 44.1 (or 48kz) sampling rate. Asterisk can't resample (that's probably for the better). You need to resample them with sox. See my (basic) scripts here: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/scripts/ Once you have your prompts in 8bit, 8khz wav, you can use the convert module here: http://redice.krisk.org To convert to anything you want. P.S. - Do you have a full set of prompts, but with the Queen's English and a british accent? If so, send me the WAVs, I'll do all the work and even host them for you! Contact me off list. Cool. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Benoît Mérouze wrote: Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? [...] Hi Krisitian, Thanks a lot for doing this, that was a very good idea. Do you think you could also convert the high quality sound files in G723 format? You have two options: 1) Download the slinear prompts and convert them yourself (then send them to me) :). 2) Tell me where I can get a LEGITIMATE g723 implementation for Asterisk and I'll do it. I know there used to be one on a certain CVS server somewhere, but I don't know if it is still around... -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Kirs et al, I did this already. It's on my website. Your most welcome to use them Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Alex Barnes wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: 06 February 2006 17:48 To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: Hi Kristian, This sounds like a great step forward. However since am from the UK we have to use a private set of prompts. The company that did them provided WAV format as well as GSM but I didn't really think about it and simply used the GSM pack provided as I assumed that was the recommended option. Could you give me a little detail on what the best format settings are so that I can convert my UK set into uber ulaw processor codec. Also if you have a nice linux script to take out some of the effort that would be fantastic but if not I am sure the sox man page will help me out. *I did try simply calling the .wav using Playback() but asterisk wasn't having any of it. Thanks in advance Alex Alex, Your WAVs are probably 16bit with a 44.1 (or 48kz) sampling rate. Asterisk can't resample (that's probably for the better). You need to resample them with sox. See my (basic) scripts here: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/scripts/ Once you have your prompts in 8bit, 8khz wav, you can use the convert module here: http://redice.krisk.org To convert to anything you want. P.S. - Do you have a full set of prompts, but with the Queen's English and a british accent? If so, send me the WAVs, I'll do all the work and even host them for you! Contact me off list. Cool. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Erm ... sorry. That should read Kris et al Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Mark Phillips wrote: Kirs et al, ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: 07 February 2006 19:23 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Kirs et al, I did this already. It's on my website. Your most welcome to use them Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Kristian Kielhofner wrote: SNIP P.S. - Do you have a full set of prompts, but with the Queen's English and a british accent? If so, send me the WAVs, I'll do all the work and even host them for you! Contact me off list. Cool. -- Kristian Kielhofner Hi Kris + Mark Sorry I don't think I can sent out the prompts as they were bought from a private company (http://www.westany.com/) £75 for a set I thought was quite reasonable for a commercial deployment. We did actually have Marks prompts for a while but at the time there were a few needed ones missing (bit of a strange mix of English bloke to American woman to welsh girl going on :P ). But the biggest draw to switch to Westany was very easy to get the custom welcome messages done, Welcome to BLAH you call might be recorded.. Thanks for the info though I will have a go at converting them this weekend. Alex Information contained in this e-mail and any attachments are intended for the use of the addressee only, and may contain confidential information of Ubiquity Software Corporation. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this email. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing signed by an officer of Ubiquity Software Corporation, nothing in this communication shall be deemed to be legally binding. Thank you. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? The default audio prompts provided with Asterisk are in the GSM audio format. GSM audio is nice because it doesn't use much disk space. However, because GSM is a loss-based compression format, there is no way to recover the audio quality lost when they were converted to GSM. Also, because few commercial products (including phones) include support for GSM, you can all but guarantee that Asterisk has to transcode the prompts when a device needs them (to access voicemail, for example). With the Asterisk Native Sounds collection you will be using audio prompts with the same voice (Allison) as the standard prompts, saying the same thing as the the standard prompts. The only difference is that they are provided in several different audio formats (most with better quality) so that Asterisk doesn't have to transcode them to the format that is being used by the current channel. Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. While you're thinking about how much processor time you are saving and how much happier your users will be with better sounds, why don't you send me some money? Paypal donations are accepted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Asterisk will immediately being using your new, high quality, audio prompts. Enjoy! --- So anyways, find them in the downloads sections of http://www.astlinux.org. Let me know if you have any problems. Also, donate, donate, donate to AstLinux! I had to compensate the beautiful, wonderful, talented Allison Smith for her efforts on this. With all of those qualities, her time is not cheap. :) Paypal to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Kris, This is very cool! Thanks for doing this. CPU power is at a much higher premium than disk space, so it makes sense to have prompts in multiple formats to cut down on unnecessary CPU usage. I'll trade disk space for extra CPU muscle any day. -MC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:48 AM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk-users@lists.digium.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? The default audio prompts provided with Asterisk are in the GSM audio format. GSM audio is nice because it doesn't use much disk space. However, because GSM is a loss-based compression format, there is no way to recover the audio quality lost when they were converted to GSM. Also, because few commercial products (including phones) include support for GSM, you can all but guarantee that Asterisk has to transcode the prompts when a device needs them (to access voicemail, for example). With the Asterisk Native Sounds collection you will be using audio prompts with the same voice (Allison) as the standard prompts, saying the same thing as the the standard prompts. The only difference is that they are provided in several different audio formats (most with better quality) so that Asterisk doesn't have to transcode them to the format that is being used by the current channel. Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. While you're thinking about how much processor time you are saving and how much happier your users will be with better sounds, why don't you send me some money? Paypal donations are accepted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Asterisk will immediately being using your new, high quality, audio prompts. Enjoy! --- So anyways, find them in the downloads sections of http://www.astlinux.org. Let me know if you have any problems. Also, donate, donate, donate to AstLinux! I had to compensate the beautiful, wonderful, talented Allison Smith for her efforts on this. With all of those qualities, her time is not cheap. :) Paypal to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
I think you may have missed a few files... [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR /root/sounds | wc -l 372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR sounds | wc -l 1710 Looks like the original number of files is 1710, but the new ulaw format files only number 372... Doug. -Original Message- From: Michael Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:09 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Kris, This is very cool! Thanks for doing this. CPU power is at a much higher premium than disk space, so it makes sense to have prompts in multiple formats to cut down on unnecessary CPU usage. I'll trade disk space for extra CPU muscle any day. -MC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:48 AM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash; Asterisk-users@lists.digium.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Hello everyone, As I promised at eTel last week, I have finished up work on my Asterisk Native Sounds project. Here's a little diddy from astlinux.org: --- Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! The Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of alternative sounds prompts for Asterisk. Here's how it works. I had Allison Smith (the voice of Asterisk) re-record all of the sound prompts present in Asterisk 1.2. She provided them to me in the best audio format possible. I then converted them into several native Asterisk sound formats. Why would I do all of this? The default audio prompts provided with Asterisk are in the GSM audio format. GSM audio is nice because it doesn't use much disk space. However, because GSM is a loss-based compression format, there is no way to recover the audio quality lost when they were converted to GSM. Also, because few commercial products (including phones) include support for GSM, you can all but guarantee that Asterisk has to transcode the prompts when a device needs them (to access voicemail, for example). With the Asterisk Native Sounds collection you will be using audio prompts with the same voice (Allison) as the standard prompts, saying the same thing as the the standard prompts. The only difference is that they are provided in several different audio formats (most with better quality) so that Asterisk doesn't have to transcode them to the format that is being used by the current channel. Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. While you're thinking about how much processor time you are saving and how much happier your users will be with better sounds, why don't you send me some money? Paypal donations are accepted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Asterisk will immediately being using your new, high quality, audio prompts. Enjoy! --- So anyways, find them in the downloads sections of http://www.astlinux.org. Let me know if you have any problems. Also, donate, donate, donate to AstLinux! I had to compensate the beautiful, wonderful, talented Allison Smith for her efforts on this. With all of those qualities, her time is not cheap. :) Paypal to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Douglas Garstang wrote: I think you may have missed a few files... [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR /root/sounds | wc -l 372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR sounds | wc -l 1710 Looks like the original number of files is 1710, but the new ulaw format files only number 372... Doug. Doug, It looks like you have installed asterisk-sounds. asterisk-sounds is not included in the Asterisk Native Sounds Package. That is a separate collection of prompts arranged by John Todd and contributed to the community. I have already talked with him about that. Other people have brought this up too. Basically, I'll consider re-doing (and paying for) the sounds in asterisk-sounds based on the donations I receive for what is provided so far in the Native Asterisk Sounds package. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Thanks for the reply Kristian, but you've completely confused me. Asterisk-sounds is the default set of sounds on digium's website? -Original Message- From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:44 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available! Douglas Garstang wrote: I think you may have missed a few files... [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR /root/sounds | wc -l 372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR sounds | wc -l 1710 Looks like the original number of files is 1710, but the new ulaw format files only number 372... Doug. Doug, It looks like you have installed asterisk-sounds. asterisk-sounds is not included in the Asterisk Native Sounds Package. That is a separate collection of prompts arranged by John Todd and contributed to the community. I have already talked with him about that. Other people have brought this up too. Basically, I'll consider re-doing (and paying for) the sounds in asterisk-sounds based on the donations I receive for what is provided so far in the Native Asterisk Sounds package. -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Douglas Garstang wrote: Thanks for the reply Kristian, but you've completely confused me. Asterisk-sounds is the default set of sounds on digium's website? No. The default sounds are in the Asterisk distribution itself. The asterisk-sounds package is separate, and none of the built-in applications expect those sounds to be present. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Douglas Garstang wrote: I think you may have missed a few files... [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR /root/sounds | wc -l 372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ls -lR sounds | wc -l 1710 Looks like the original number of files is 1710, but the new ulaw format files only number 372... Doug. Doug, It looks like you have installed asterisk-sounds. asterisk-sounds is not included in the Asterisk Native Sounds Package. That is a separate collection of prompts arranged by John Todd and contributed to the community. I have already talked with him about that. Other people have brought this up too. Basically, I'll consider re-doing (and paying for) the sounds in asterisk-sounds based on the donations I receive for what is provided so far in the Native Asterisk Sounds package. -- Kristian Kielhofner I'll only take credit for a small portion of those sounds - the full list of sounds in the extras list has only a few sounds that were contributed by me (or funded by companies like VoicePulse or CallEveryone.com and others who wish to remain anonymous.) The mass of those sounds has just... happened over time. The sounds themselves won't take that much time to re-record - I expect it would be an hour or two of Allison's time to re-do them in one big, uncut session. However, it has been noted that 90% of the work of soundfiles is NOT the recording time - it's the editing, naming, and re-formatting time. That is what frightens me a bit if we were to do the whole list over in high quality. It would be a solid half-day (5+ hours?) or so of editing on my Mac, and that's with the quick key shortcuts I have with my sound editor. Other editing volunteers are welcome if we get enough interest to have Allison do the recordings. JT ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [SPAM-Score-10.0] [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. After un packing the files in my sounds directory I now have no sounds/promtps when going to voice mail etc. and even renaming sounds.orig doesn't get my sounds back. now what? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [SPAM-Score-10.0] [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Tim Litwiller wrote: Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. After un packing the files in my sounds directory I now have no sounds/promtps when going to voice mail etc. and even renaming sounds.orig doesn't get my sounds back. now what? I found it - I had to put the x bit back on the directory. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [SPAM-Score-10.0] [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
Tim Litwiller wrote: Installation is very simple. Simply download the prompts to a directory on your Asterisk server. Any will do. Once you have downloaded the formats you desire, simple follow these steps: cd /var/lib/asterisk/ mv sounds sounds.orig tar -xvjf /path/to/sounds.tar.bz2 [repeat last step for other formats] The audio prompts are available from the Extras category in the Downloads section of astlinux.org. After un packing the files in my sounds directory I now have no sounds/promtps when going to voice mail etc. and even renaming sounds.orig doesn't get my sounds back. now what? Wow, that does sound quite a bit better. Thanks. - Now off to donate to your paypal! ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk native sounds now available!
At 09:48 AM 02/06/2006, you wrote: Asterisk Native Sounds are a collection of audio prompts for Asterisk. They will improve quality, reduce CPU usage, reduce latency, and (in some cases) eliminate the need for G729 licenses! I have to say, installing these made an astonishing improvement in the quality of the standard voice prompts. Instead of sounding like a digital talking toy it now sounds like a real person. Highly recommended. Ira ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
