Gil Kloepfer
2006-Dec-17 13:24 UTC
[asterisk-users] 1.4 sounds long space before and after prompt
Is anyone else finding in the new audio files that the longer space at the beginning and end of the files tends to be extremely irritating? An excellent example is when going into voicemail and Allison says how many messages you have, the space between the files is annoyingly long: you have ...... four ...... old ...... messages ..and.. first ...... message ...... received ..... July ..... twenty ...... second Under the old sound files, this continuity was still a little long, but workable. The new sound files make these positively sound like a computer playing individual files rather than a continuous sentence. If I release these sound files as they are to my users, they are going to revolt. They already complain about the old Octel VM system prompts being played back too slowly and these are much slower than that. I mentioned this a while back when the new sounds were in beta, but haven't seen anything more about it. So either this says something about my and my users' level of patience, I'm missing something that changed between 1.2 and 1.4 that could fix this, or the focus has been on lower-level issues with 1.4 than on the sound files. With the new higher-quality sound files, I could manually edit all the offending files (there are lots of them) and correct what I perceive to be a problem. However, if this is a common enough complaint, maybe others would want to help as well, and we could get the "fixed" files put back into core Asterisk. Note that this doesn't appear to be a problem with the speed of the sound files as some others have experienced. The tempo is probably okay, and the pitch is fine. It's the spacing between files that's the issue I'm talking about. Thanks in advance for any feedback. --- Gil Kloepfer astr-usr@kloepfer.org
I noticed the same problem as well. I will see if I the old sound files corrects the problem, or if it's actually a timing problem. I have to say, I like the old sounds better, they sounded softer. -Ry On 12/17/06, Gil Kloepfer <astr-usr@kloepfer.org> wrote:> > Is anyone else finding in the new audio files that the longer space > at the beginning and end of the files tends to be extremely irritating? > An excellent example is when going into voicemail and Allison says how > many messages you have, the space between the files is annoyingly long: > > you have ...... four ...... old ...... messages > > ..and.. > > first ...... message ...... received ..... July ..... twenty ...... > second > > Under the old sound files, this continuity was still a little long, > but workable. The new sound files make these positively sound like > a computer playing individual files rather than a continuous sentence. > > If I release these sound files as they are to my users, they are going > to revolt. They already complain about the old Octel VM system prompts > being played back too slowly and these are much slower than that. > > I mentioned this a while back when the new sounds were in beta, but > haven't seen anything more about it. So either this says something > about my and my users' level of patience, I'm missing something > that changed between 1.2 and 1.4 that could fix this, or the > focus has been on lower-level issues with 1.4 than on the sound files. > > With the new higher-quality sound files, I could manually edit all > the offending files (there are lots of them) and correct what I perceive > to be a problem. However, if this is a common enough complaint, maybe > others would want to help as well, and we could get the "fixed" files > put back into core Asterisk. > > Note that this doesn't appear to be a problem with the speed of the > sound files as some others have experienced. The tempo is probably okay, > and the pitch is fine. It's the spacing between files that's the issue > I'm talking about. > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. > > --- > Gil Kloepfer > astr-usr@kloepfer.org > _______________________________________________ > --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 >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070126/241824af/attachment.htm