what sound files to use?

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:50:51AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> Asterisk sounds tarballs (as of 1.4.14) will be CC-SA-BY-3.0 :-)
> 
> And this also brings the question of: what format of sound files
> do we ship (in the upcoming 1.6 package. I don't intend to touch the
> Lenny package).
> 
> Or do we just provide a downloading script for other formats?

What about packages?

Random thoughts:

People with ISDN lines should install either alaw or ulaw to get
rid of transcoding. We don't know in advance if they have alaw or
ulaw (depending on where they are located). Shipping the wrong
format just wastes space.

People outside of en-US (or en in general if you can tolerate some
subtle differences) don't need en in "high" quality because they
don't speak en  :-)
(It's sad but not many people in the US know :-P)
They will likely want to install sound files in a different
language anyway.

So: Ship en sounds in the smallest format possible.
gsm is a good choice here.

Simon Richter schrieb:
> "all of them" sounds like the best choice to me. The increase in archive
> size is negligible, and it leaves sysadmins with the choice.

In all languages which are available?


   Philipp Kempgen

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