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 Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *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 Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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