Hi, this question may sound a little dumb, but I need opinion of who are already using asterisk. questions are : 1) which format is best suited for asterisk (.gsm, .wav etc, also what sampling rate and bit size) 2) What are the best sources (cost effective) to get prompts recorded. thanks in advance. Nitin
Nitin, I'm sure others have better advice but there's no "best" format per se. Whatever makes asterisk and more importantly the CPU work less in playing those prompts is probably best. from what I understand (*) picks up the best suited format based on the capabilities of the channel and endpoint. If you have endpoints that connect using different codecs, you'd want to have the prompts in all of those formats on your machine and (*) will pick up the relevant ones thus avoiding transcoding. You can find all information on this page: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+sound+files. What I'm going to do is have the prompts be recorded in a wav (44khz) and then downsample them to 8kHz 16 bits windows wav. Then use the Asterisk 'convert' utility to convert all prompts to all diff formats I expect people to use. Hope this helps
<snip>> 2) What are the best sources (cost effective) to get prompts recorded.</snip> I would go with allison. She is the one that did all the voice files that you currently have on asterisk. So if you use her for your prompts you will have the same voice thru out ur PBX. A client of mine just used her for his entire pbx (total of 12 clips i believe ranging in sizes). The price was $75.00
thanks Dovid, infact I just got things recorded from her. Nitin On 8/27/06, Dovid Bender <asteriskusers@dovid.net> wrote:> <snip> > > 2) What are the best sources (cost effective) to get prompts recorded. > </snip> > I would go with allison. She is the one that did all the voice files that > you currently have on asterisk. So if you use her for your prompts you will > have the same voice thru out ur PBX. A client of mine just used her for his > entire pbx (total of 12 clips i believe ranging in sizes). The price was > $75.00 > > _______________________________________________ > --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 >