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Free Asterisk Voice Prompts

The following Asterisk prompts where done a year or so ago. I did it for my company using my Wife “Jules”. She was a teacher for “English as a second language” students. In my opinion she has a very clean voice which works very well for prompts.

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Asterisk Voice Prompts – Australian Female

NOTE: these are in RAW format. ulaw files must be removed for these to work.
Ie:

for ARG in `find /var/lib/asterisk/sounds -name “*.raw” -print`
do
echo $ARG
NAME=`echo “$ARG” | cut -d’.’ -f1`
echo $NAME
/bin/rm -f $NAME.gsm
/bin/rm -f $NAME.ulaw
done

9 Comments

9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Phil // Jul 28, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Hello, I would like these asterisk voice files but is it necessary to use .Z format?

  • 2 James Gardiner // Jul 28, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    .Z is the older and more common unix compression format. use the command “uncompress” or use the tar extract command.
    “tar xvzf file.tar.Z” the “z” file means uncompress the input file.

  • 3 Tom // Oct 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Wonderful prompts, I think it adds a bit more spice to my asterisk system! Thanks! :-)

  • 4 Doug // Mar 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Nice voice…thanks

  • 5 Sandy // Jul 24, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Thanks very much for providing these. Are you able to tell me the sampling rate, or anything else that will assist with conversion to GSM or other?

  • 6 Si // Aug 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Thanks for these. they sound great. but can someone please help me execute the removal of equivilent gsm files – for ARG in `find /var/lib…..etc.

    how do i execute that script?

  • 7 Collin // Sep 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    The files can be played back @ 8000Hz 16-bit mono 128kb/s in Euphony Free Player. Hope this helps.

  • 8 Nigel // Feb 4, 2010 at 8:23 am

    you don’t have to delete any files, just put these new files in a subdirectory called au under the sounds directory, and make sure you language is set to au in sip/iax/chan_dahdi.conf

  • 9 Ross // Feb 9, 2010 at 8:40 am

    Thankyou, that is so much nicer than the default woman.

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