Foreign language asterisk sounds

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Wed Jun 13 08:50:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:03:02AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:32:55AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> 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.

I (and reporter of bugs) disagree for asterisk-sounds-fr:

 - it is meant for Asterisk 1.0, not 1.2. Which means they are now
   incomplete (possibly they were even for 1.0, not sure), and
   confusing for users. E.g. the voicemail options blurb says "press 4
   to change your password" instead of "press 4 to change your
   temporary greeting and 5 to change your password".

 - At least to our European ears, the wording choice is not very
   idiomatic. Not outright wrong, but weird.

 - People complain about sound quality, I find it OK, albeit not
   excellent.

I vote to ditch our current asterisk-prompt-fr, create:

 asterisk-prompt-fr-proformatique
 asterisk-prompt-fr-indigen
 asterisk-prompt-fr-digium or asterisk-prompt-fr-ca or asterisk-prompt-fr or ...

and have them all Provides/Conflicts/Replace asterisk-prompt-fr.


For the Spanish prompts, well, ... the ones we have now are Columbian
Spanish and called asterisk-prompt-es-co, so not conflict at all.


-- 
Lionel



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