Yep. If your wife will do the voice work I'll chop the file. Saarff Wimbuldon eh? Don't say as hour I never do nuffink for ya!
Don't forget to "translate" the relevant words. We don't have "zee" or "pound" in English (of course, being a Brit you already knew that) Mark Bill Seddon said: > 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, maybe you could chop up the file? > > 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
