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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>My preference is to hear a real Human voice over the sometimes curious pronunciation of the text-to-speech systems out there, unless it is necessitated by a real-time translation from such sources as a weather alert or news ticker. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I would think you could make your system sound distinctive by NOT using it, instead recording your own voice with your own "effects". I have recorded a number of prompts for Lu's systems and he seems happy with them. You can record as many takes as necessary to get it just right, then commit the prompt to the ages for all visitors to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I agree that mu law is the best compromise of the choices of codecs offered by Asterisk. Just remember to end the resulting filename with .ul so that Asterisk knows. I wish we didn't have to strip off the extension of speech files when feeding them to Asterisk, it complicates my scripts unnecessarily.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Bote<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert A. Poff WB3AWJ<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 11:25<br><br></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Robert A. Poff<br>Loganville, PA.<br><br>WB3AWJ<br>Allstar 27784</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br>"Lieutenant, target the offending power boat and launch photon torpedoes" <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>