With anything that will make a sound file. I use a text to speech program
to make a WAV file and then convert the files to GSM with a program
called "Sox" which you can download for free on the Internet. It will
convert WAV files to GSM or ULAW format for Asterisk.

Take a look at:

http://www.nextup.com/

You can download a trial version of "Text Aloud" and hear what a bunch
of TTS voices sound like. If you are going to make a bunch of sound files,
like announcements. id'ers, and the "node names" files, that's the easiest way
to do it. I use a voice called NeoSpeech Kate, which is close to Allison's
voice and probably the most realistic TTS voice I have.

You can also use the Windows recorder to record them. Get one of the
girls from the ham club with a nice voice to record them for you. Or hire
Allison Smith, but she's probably a bit expensive because she's a real
person, not a TTS voice

A TTS voice costs about $30, and a the Text Aloud program is also about
$30, so for sixty bucks you can make sound files forever....

73, Jim KH2D

On 2/17/2012 10:13 PM, Ron Simpson wrote:

How do I generate the files?


73,

Ron - N6GKJ
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From: Jim Kehler <kh2d@bellsouth.net>;
To: <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org>;
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Voice Mail features of Asterisk
Sent: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 3:11:26 AM

Ron,

I don't know about voice mail, but you can use the Tail Message function to play
canned announcements. Goes in the [Node] stanza:

;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Audio files can be played for weather warnings,        
;  to announce     club meetings, etc.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; Audio file(s) to be played as a tail message. If there
; is more than one file listed, separate files with a comma
; and the files will be rotated. File extension should be
; omitted. If no path is specified, the files should be
; located in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.
;
; Example: tailmessagelist=file1,file2,file3
;
tailmessagelist=/kh2d/node-announce
;
; Time, in miliseconds, between tail messages
; 900000 = 15 minutes.
;
tailmessagetime=3600000
;
; If a user transmits during the tail message, a shorter
; interval can be set to replay the message (miliseconds).
; 300000 = 5 minutes 
;
tailsquashedtime=900000 
;
;

73, Jim KH2D



On 2/17/2012 9:47 PM, Ron Simpson wrote:

Is it possible to use the voice mail features built into Asterisk for canned system announcements? I want to announce the various nets and meetings on the repeater. I would also like to use the vm feature for someone to call in and leave me a message. Am I doing some big time wishful thinking or is this possible!!

73,

Ron - N6GKJ
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