THANK YOU! On 2/6/06, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-announce mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-announce >
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