Comments on: Setting up a professional sounding Digital Receptionist in Asterisk@Home

By: Shooping Cart

Shooping Cart — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0000

Hi,

I think the article is very informative about to the very important topic such like professional sounding Digital Receptionist in the Europeans or in UK. There are many ways to control the server and others digital hardware's.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:54:04 +0000

With the Real Speak demo unavailable for over a month now while they “upgrade”, if you want an alternative to the AT&T one that doesn’t have a character limit you simply need to create a free mail.com email account and email the text you want to your own mail.com email account. Then using MAIL.COM beta mail reader (web based) to read your email it will use ReadSpeaker and you have a choice of different voices. The UK english sounds very similar to the Nuance realspeak voice, however they seem to be unrelated companies.

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Sun, 21 May 2006 00:55:08 +0000

Hello,

I was trying out the demo but it was nto working. I have found out another place where we can get wav files

http://naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

Please include it in your blog if this is helpful.

By: Phil Donaldson

Phil Donaldson — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:11:01 +0000

Hi, I had a similar problem. For me it was because I was saving the .wav as 8Khz but in 8 bit. Make sure you save it as 8khz and 16 bit. Phil

By: Joe Bennett

Joe Bennett — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:57:23 +0000

Hi Jacken,

Thanks for the helpful info. I'm having a problem though. I have the sample rate set correctly, but I still can't hear the .wav files I upload. Any Ideas?

By: Han

Han — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:23:25 +0000

Hi Jack. Im new to this Asterisk@Home server. The problem now is, i cant access to the Asterisk server on Linux platform. It give me an error message saying “Server Error. Could not connect because of networking problems. Contact your system administrator.(CANT_CONNECT)”. Asterisk server is being install on a different pc.

By: Jacken

Jacken — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:10:42 +0000

Hi James.

You can put them there manually. The greeting and busy sounds are stored in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/vm. In that directory there's one directory for each extension. So for example, if I want to change the greeting message for extension 200, I would upload a wav file called greet.wav in the directory /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/vm/200 on the asterisk server. If you want to change the busy message, upload a wav file called busy.wav. Make sure the files are in 8khz 16-bit wav format. I would recommend the free Open Source program Audacity.

Good luck!

Jacken

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:13:38 +0000

Do you know how to use WAV file recordings as individual voicemail box greetings and annoucements? A@H AMP allows for uploading files but then doesn't indicate where they go or how to assign to specific extensions.

Great site!

Best regards, James