You can also install the MP3 player from the Asterisk web site. I use it to play weather report podcasts directly from the weather bureau here. However, to record your own MP3 files so that they play back reliably, you need some *real* MP3 software (I use Adobe Soundbooth). Cepstral's web site will let you make short announcements as a demo. You can use software (like virtual audio cable) to capture the sound to a file. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Bryan D. Boyle <bdboyle@bdboyle.com> To: Matt Roberts <n9gmr@me.com> Cc: app_rpt-users <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 8:27 am Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] File Formats You can use a free program called "Audacity" to record the file to a .wav on our windows machine. Upload it using sftp or some transfer program to your ontroller, use a program called 'sox' to convert it to a .gsm file: (sox nputfile.wav -r 8000 -v .5 outputfile.gsm (-r is resample at 8000 Hz, -v is olume of 1/2... -v 1 would be no change, -v 2 would be double....) or...purchase a license for a voice from cepstral (text to speech program, chose illiam 8kHz) load it on the controller, build a simple text file with what you ant to say, run it through the cepstral text to speech program, run the roduced .wav file to .gsm with sox, and move it into the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/rpt irectory. Lots of ways of skinning the cat; I use the latter to convert my download eather forecast and alerts to voice to playback with DTMF commands, and the ormer to convert mp3s that professional announcer friends of mine send me for y tail messages and 10-minute voice ids. (It's good to have friends/former olleagues who have Don LaFontaine style voices...:) "In a world where amateurs onder about which machine they're on...YOU'RE transmitting on xxxxxx..." OK, okey. Do a google for Asterisk audio file creation and there's a wealth of information ut there....start here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+sound+files for a good start, imho. 's where I began. And ended up with a complete studio et-up in my basement shack... - 3, ryan WB0YLE ww.wb0yle.com orrisville PA Sent from my iPad On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Matt Roberts <n9gmr@me.com> wrote:
If I want to record voice files for my repeater, what can I use. I see in ome places it says you can use WAV, or GSM. It lists one more format, but an't remember which one. WAV files are the easiest for me to create. CAn I se them?
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