My wife's got an appropriate Southern England (Wimbledon) accent and I'm sure she would try her hand. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the words that need to be said? Matt, do you have them if your wife's done a set for French users?
Mark, if you have the kit maybe you could chop up the file? I write a utility to chop up and compress the wave file based on some of the C code available but if you already have the kit... Bill Seddon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: September 17, 2004 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files Looks like I've drawn the short straw here. I do have the facilities and so can do a Male Southern England recording but I'm still stuck for female (which seems to be customers preference). I also have the techincal know how as well as a web server. OK folks, I'll start with the common things like numbers and the VM system stuff etc. I'll post a link when I have something to start with. Get a lot of call for French in New Zealand do you Matt? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On 16 Sep 2004 at 20:37, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> No disrespect to Alison (whom I know is a Canadian) intended but her >> "British" accent is exactly that; "British". It's very easy to hear >> that she's not from Chipping Sodbury. >> >> Also, do you really have the budget to spend on having all the >> relevant files recorded at $12 a time. That works out to a lot of >> money! >> > > Hate to state the obvious, but why don't you just record them > yourselves. > > Options: > > 1) Beg, borrow or steal a microphone > 2) Download the list of filenames, prompts contained > 3) Record all prompts in one go, 1 after another with a 1-2 second > gap between > 4) Use some free audio editing software to snip the big file into > little files, and save each one as the correct filename (albeit with > .wav as the extension). > 5) If you feel up to it, run a batch process over them to bring them > all close to 0db > 6) Use sox to convert to gsm files > 7) Provide the resulting sound files as a free download from your > website so that others don't have to do the same thing. > > I can help you with any step from 2 on (unless you want to come to > one of my 2 studios here in New Zealand and borrow a microphone). > > Really the hardest part is splitting the files, but it only takes > around a hour for the full set (I'm lucky, my wife who I recorded for > the French prompts had also done School of Audio Engineering and so > was able to use Wavelab to do the snipping etc. > > The other option is to just use the telephone and the asterisk > dialplan to record the prompts, but I would say this would take > rather a bit longer (unless you made a script that would record the > first file, press # to confirm, record next file etc). > > Drop me a line if you need a hand with any of the above, should you > devide to record them yourself. > > Matt Riddell > (New Zealand Digium Distribution/Custom Software) > http://www.sineapps.com/downloads.php (French Prompts) > http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (asterisk news) > -- Mark Phillips, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users