On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 5:20:37 PM PST jerutley@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello list!

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> Another question - can the AllStar version of Asterisk directly play

> MP3-formatted audio? I'm considering some functions using Amazon's Polly

> Text-to-Speech service, which provides MP3 files, so I'm wondering if

> Asterisk could play them directly, or if I'd have to use sox to convert them

> to another format first.

Use 'sox' to convert mp3's to a format you can use.

sudo apt-get install sox libsox-fmt-mp3

For example you can use 'sox xxx.mp3 xxx.wav' to convert from mp3 to wav.

Sox supports almost 100 different sound file formats as well as a large number of special effects.

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