asterisk users - Apr 2003 - German voicemail prompts, anybody?

Hi all,

I'm trying to build a little voicemail server based on asterisk here,
using Asterisk's "Commedian Mail" application. Unfortunately,
I'd expect
some people to have trouble using the English prompts that come with
asterisk.
However, I can't imagine I'm the first person who has this problem, and
Commedian Mail seems to support multilingual prompts fine, it's just that
it needs the prompts to be recorded by somebody, preferrably by a sexy
female voice, similar to the English prompts.
So: Has anybody translated the prompts to German, maybe even recorded
them?

Thanks in advance,

	Siggi

It's not *very* simple to change the voicemail
prompts. That's because the english grammar
used by voicemail isn't the same as other
languages ... I've translated all the prompts
to italian, but the result is a bit ugly ;-)
since some words in english are the same
if used singular/plural , in italian are
very different (don't know german well,
but think is the same).
So some hacking into voicemail code is also
needed in order to set the correct sequence
of the prompts.

Matteo.

Il sab, 2003-04-26 alle 16:31, Siggi Langauf ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to build a little voicemail server based on asterisk here,
> using Asterisk's "Commedian Mail" application. Unfortunately,
I'd expect
> some people to have trouble using the English prompts that come with
> asterisk.
> However, I can't imagine I'm the first person who has this problem,
and
> Commedian Mail seems to support multilingual prompts fine, it's just
that
> it needs the prompts to be recorded by somebody, preferrably by a sexy
> female voice, similar to the English prompts.
> So: Has anybody translated the prompts to German, maybe even recorded
> them?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	Siggi
> 
> 
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On Saturday, Apr 26, 2003, at 10:31 America/Los_Angeles, Brancaleoni 
Matteo wrote:
> So some hacking into voicemail code is also
> needed in order to set the correct sequence
> of the prompts.
Indeed translations are a lot tricker than you would think.

Here is an article about Software Localization that might be helpful:

http://xrl.us/gyt (Link to search.cpan.org)


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