<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Audacity and Cepstral will output directly to ULAW which asterisk uses.<br>Doing that eliminates the possibility of transcoding errors when using sox.<br><br>Using Audacity to produce some imaginative ID tracks will help your system stand out.<br>Examples : <a href="http://wb3awj.hobby-site.org/xfer/W3SBA_BELLWHISTLE.wav" target="_blank">BELLS&WHISTLES</a> <a href="http://wb3awj.hobby-site.org/xfer/W3SBA_TRANSPORT.wav">TRANSPORT</a> <br><br>By all means buy a copy of Cepstral. <br>For cold voice ID's, use it to generate those cuts and you maintain a "consistency of sound" image.<br><br>But even better, It's great for generating a voice track on the fly.<br>One example is on my repeater I have a script that runs several times a day.<br>It gathers solar/propagation data, compiles a report, and reads it on the air if the channel is idle.<br><br><div><span></span><div><div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-STYLE: italic"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-STYLE: italic">
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<div><font size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: arial">Robert A. Poff<br></span></font><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: arial"><font size="3"><font size="2">Loganville, PA.<br><br>WB3AWJ<br>Allstar 27784</font><br></font><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-STYLE: italic"><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-STYLE: italic">"Lieutenant, target the offending power boat and launch photon torpedoes" </span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div></div><span></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>