Foreign language asterisk sounds

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:32:55AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a reason (beyond nobody did it yet) we do not ship the Digium
> asterisk French/Spanish sounds?

One comment: what I understand from previous discussions is that those
are actually Canadian French and Mexican Spanish. So the current
packages we have are still useful.

> 
> In particular:
> 
>  - Can we presume the same license as Asterisk (or the English core
>    sounds), or do we want an explicit OK from Digium? In the latter
>    case, has anybody contacted Digium about that?

IIRC it is OK. Not sure.

> 
>  - Shall we include them in the repackaged upstream tarball or as
>    separate source packages?
> 
>  - Do we want to ship all coding variants or just GSM?

Or as slinear and provide automatic conversion scripts (using the
convert command and/or sox)?

Sizes of packages:  http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/

 12M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-alaw-current.tar.gz
 12M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
6.6M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-g729-current.tar.gz
7.1M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz
 12M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-ulaw-current.tar.gz
 18M  asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
8.6M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-alaw-current.tar.gz

9.0M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-g722-current.tar.gz
1.3M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-g729-current.tar.gz
2.0M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-gsm-current.tar.gz
8.6M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-ulaw-current.tar.gz
 18M  asterisk-core-sounds-es-wav-current.tar.gz

6.2M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-alaw-current.tar.gz
6.8M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-g722-current.tar.gz
1.0M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-g729-current.tar.gz
1.5M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-gsm-current.tar.gz
6.3M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-ulaw-current.tar.gz
 13M  asterisk-core-sounds-fr-wav-current.tar.gz


 13M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-alaw-current.tar.gz
 13M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
1.9M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g729-current.tar.gz
3.1M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz
 13M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-ulaw-current.tar.gz
 27M  asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz


2.9M  asterisk-moh-freeplay-alaw.tar.gz
2.9M  asterisk-moh-freeplay-g722.tar.gz
410K  asterisk-moh-freeplay-g729.tar.gz
667K  asterisk-moh-freeplay-gsm.tar.gz
2.9M  asterisk-moh-freeplay-ulaw.tar.gz
5.9M  asterisk-moh-freeplay-wav.tar.gz


> 
> 
> I'm willing to do that task. Starting this evening (Europe time) if
> legal matters allow. (You may have forgotten because I am so inactive,
> but I have SVN commit privileges on pkg-voip.) I may also package
> http://public.indigen.com/asterisk-1.2-sounds-fr-armelle.tar.gz and/or
> http://xivo.fr/debian/prompt-fr-france-20060911.tgz, if I can contact
> their suppliers and confirm a free license on them.

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