[Asterisk-Users] Re: Sound file quality

2004-08-09 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:07, David Gurr wrote:
  I'm building a phone-in demo system to use for introducing Asterisk to
  prospective clients.
  
  One of the things I'm wary of is their likely preconceptions that VoIP
  systems will have poor audio quality.
  
  As a result, I'd like to ensure that the voice prompts I'm using have
  the best possible audio quality.
  
  Is it possible to use sound files at higher than 8kHz sampling? My
  callers will be coming in over PSTN to a VoIP gateway and then to me
  by uLaw/aLaw ... would higher sampling rates gain me anything in this
  configuration?
 
 PSTN is 8khz sample rate. So obviously a higher sample rate will not get
 you any where.

However, 16-bit PCM-encoded 8kHz wav files would be a definite improvement
over the GSM-encoded ones we currently have.

I raised a feature request on bugs.digium.com (#2187) for these, and was
told it will be done sometime. I hope it's soon.

Cheers
Tony
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[Asterisk-Users] Re: Sound file quality

2004-08-09 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
hank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 can you use .wav files or does it have to be gsm?

You can use .wav files. They should be PCM format, 8000Hz sampling,
16 bit mono. Windows Sound Recorder can produce them, as can sox.

Cheers
Tony
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