Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it...
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:26:14PM -0800, Ira wrote: At 08:51 PM 03/14/2006, you wrote: In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: For what it's worth, the hardest problem I had was not being able to directly FTP them from my Asterisk box. I'm a Linux newbie and had no idea how to do that. FTP *to a linux box*? /me is shocked! You have ssh access, right? Use scp/sftp. Try http://winscp.sf.net/ . If you don't one to carry one around or install on your system(s), put one statically-linked copy on your file/web server and download/run it. I downloaded them to my Windows box, set up vsftpd and uploaded them using a GUI FTP client in Windows and only then could I use them. wget http://server.name/path/to/file wget ftp://server.name/path/to/file In fact, what I normally do is copy a link from my browser to the command line in the terminal window and download it with wget. Saves me an extra file copy around the net. So for those who need exact commands, here's a two-liner: wget http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/asterisk-native-sounds-20060209-01-sln.tar.bz2 tar xjf asterisk-native-sounds-20060209-01-sln.tar.bz2 -C /var/lib/asterisk ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
This was non-trivial for me also. I prefer to right-click-copy the link on the website, switch over to putty type in my wget (right-click), and download the file directly to the box. The link I tried on the sounds page happily downloaded index.html (if memory serves). I did go ahead and get the ulaw files the hard way... Bob McDowell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:30 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it... On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:26:14PM -0800, Ira wrote: At 08:51 PM 03/14/2006, you wrote: In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: For what it's worth, the hardest problem I had was not being able to directly FTP them from my Asterisk box. I'm a Linux newbie and had no idea how to do that. FTP *to a linux box*? /me is shocked! You have ssh access, right? Use scp/sftp. Try http://winscp.sf.net/ . If you don't one to carry one around or install on your system(s), put one statically-linked copy on your file/web server and download/run it. I downloaded them to my Windows box, set up vsftpd and uploaded them using a GUI FTP client in Windows and only then could I use them. wget http://server.name/path/to/file wget ftp://server.name/path/to/file In fact, what I normally do is copy a link from my browser to the command line in the terminal window and download it with wget. Saves me an extra file copy around the net. So for those who need exact commands, here's a two-liner: wget http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/asterisk-native-sounds-20060209-01-sln .tar.bz2 tar xjf asterisk-native-sounds-20060209-01-sln.tar.bz2 -C /var/lib/asterisk ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
I have several servers using them, but I only needed to download them directly from you just once. I replicated the bits myself. The magic of these advanced technologies... ;) I could go download them a few more times if it would make you feel better. All kidding aside, I don't think I ever thanked you for doing this. The quality is definitely much greater than the original .gsm prompts. Regards, - Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:52 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it... Hello everyone, I was just looking over some logs, and it appears that there have been less than 3,000 downloads for my native Asterisk sounds packages (all formats combined). What gives ;)? In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/ P.S. - 2/9/2006 are the most recent. -- 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 The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
Aren't you bothered by the fact that the sound file quality goes up and down as different sound files are played? It's quite obvious to hear the difference between a ulaw file and a gsm file. -Original Message- From: Watkins, Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:57 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it... I have several servers using them, but I only needed to download them directly from you just once. I replicated the bits myself. The magic of these advanced technologies... ;) I could go download them a few more times if it would make you feel better. All kidding aside, I don't think I ever thanked you for doing this. The quality is definitely much greater than the original .gsm prompts. Regards, - Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:52 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it... Hello everyone, I was just looking over some logs, and it appears that there have been less than 3,000 downloads for my native Asterisk sounds packages (all formats combined). What gives ;)? In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/ P.S. - 2/9/2006 are the most recent. -- 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 The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
Douglas Garstang wrote: Aren't you bothered by the fact that the sound file quality goes up and down as different sound files are played? It's quite obvious to hear the difference between a ulaw file and a gsm file. Douglas, I know that you have had a hard time grasping this, but not EVERY person uses the sound files in the OPTIONAL asterisk-sounds package. For instance, if you were using Asterisk as a voicemail or conference solution, you would NOT need the prompts in asterisk-sounds. I'll (hopefully) get around to doing those someday... -- 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 - in case you missed it...
This is just an idea. I personally love the idea of lower cpu utilization, even more so than better sound quality. So take all your gsm files, and convert them to ulaw, alaw, g729, etc. Now, when someome calls in they'll always get the same quality sound files (i.e., crappy), but cpu usage will be much lower, as it doesn't have to transcode to the correct codec. Best of both worlds! Consistently crappy sound files, and lower cpu usage! BTW, it doesn't really bother me, I have a 2.something GHZ cpu and only a handful of calls are handled at any one time. I just downloaded the sound files to play with. They do sound different from the old ones, probably a combination of the better sound quality and the fact they are new recordings (you can record yourself saying the same thing a dozen times, each one will sound slightly different). Joseph Tanner On 3/15/06, Kristian Kielhofner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Garstang wrote: Aren't you bothered by the fact that the sound file quality goes up and down as different sound files are played? It's quite obvious to hear the difference between a ulaw file and a gsm file. Douglas, I know that you have had a hard time grasping this, but not EVERY person uses the sound files in the OPTIONAL asterisk-sounds package. For instance, if you were using Asterisk as a voicemail or conference solution, you would NOT need the prompts in asterisk-sounds. I'll (hopefully) get around to doing those someday... -- 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 - in case you missed it...
At 12:30 AM 03/15/2006, you wrote: wget http://server.name/path/to/file wget ftp://server.name/path/to/file In fact, what I normally do is copy a link from my browser to the command line in the terminal window and download it with wget. Saves me an extra file copy around the net. I'll get there! I'll go add wget to the list of useful commands I'm compiling. People here sometimes forget that some of us came to Linux through Asterisk and not the other way around. I'm sure it seems obvious to use wget to you, but while I've seen it mentioned in passing, till now I never got what it was good for. I knew how to use FTP to get files from FTP servers so as that old saying goes, If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail! Anyway, thanks for being so kind to a Linux newbie. Ira -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.3/281 - Release Date: 03/14/2006 ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
I discussed the native sounds with my boss the other day. We decided not to use them because there's only 197 sound files out of a total of 1200 installed on the system from asterisk and the asterisk-sounds packages. We wanted to have a consistent playback quality, rather than have it going up and down every time Asterisk switched from a ulaw file to a gsm etc. Doug. -Original Message- From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/14/2006 9:51 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Native Sounds - in case you missed it... Hello everyone, I was just looking over some logs, and it appears that there have been less than 3,000 downloads for my native Asterisk sounds packages (all formats combined). What gives ;)? In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: http://mirror.astlinux.org/sounds/ P.S. - 2/9/2006 are the most recent. -- 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 winmail.dat___ --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 - in case you missed it...
At 08:51 PM 03/14/2006, you wrote: In my humble opinion, EVERYONE (unless you have your own in a different voice/language) that uses Asterisk should be using these prompts. How about a direct link this time: For what it's worth, the hardest problem I had was not being able to directly FTP them from my Asterisk box. I'm a Linux newbie and had no idea how to do that. I downloaded them to my Windows box, set up vsftpd and uploaded them using a GUI FTP client in Windows and only then could I use them. As I said both hear and via PayPal, they were worth all the trouble as the voice quality of the prompts improved dramatically. Ira -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.2/280 - Release Date: 03/13/2006 ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
On Mar 14, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: I discussed the native sounds with my boss the other day. We decided not to use them because there's only 197 sound files out of a total of 1200 installed on the system from asterisk and the asterisk-sounds packages. We wanted to have a consistent playback quality, rather than have it going up and down every time Asterisk switched from a ulaw file to a gsm etc. Great, now your your ulaw users can hear shitty audio all the time. ___ --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 - in case you missed it...
On Wed March 15 2006 17:31, Martin Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now your your ulaw users can hear shitty audio all the time. Martin, let's keep this mailing list polite as free of negativity as possible. There's no need to bite at people. You could easily have said the same thing a lot more politely. Thanks, -- Nick e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +61 7 5591 3588 f: +61 7 5591 6588 If you receive this email by mistake, please notify us and do not make any use of the email. We do not waive any privilege, confidentiality or copyright associated with it. ___ --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
