How to Get Your New Language Added to the Asterisk Distribution

As of October 2009, it is possible for new languages to be added to Asterisk if you or your company is willing to have the recordings made and then contribute them under the Creative Commons license. They will then appear in the menus of different languages which can be selected at build time. Everyone who has submitted a language below is encouraged to re-package their sound files for addition. Questions can be sent to John Todd ([email protected]) regarding language additions.

Use language= in a .conf file, or use the CHANNEL(language) function (1.4+) resp. the SetLanguage() application in extensions.conf

Asterisk 1.4+

Place the voice prompts into a directory structure as follows (usually within /var/lib/asterisk/):

sounds/xx
sounds/xx/digits
sounds/xx/letters
sounds/xx/phonetic

Make sure you put ‘languageprefix=yes’ in your /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf file, so that Asterisk will use this new file layout.

Asterisk 1.2

The file structure for 1.2 is different than for 1.4:

sounds/xx
sounds/digits/xx
sounds/letters/xx
sounds/phonetic/xx

Note: where xx is the two letter ISO code of the language in question (nl, fr, de, it, pt, es …)

Arabic

Female Arabic voice prompts for Asterisk & Freeswitch from Westany – Personalised voice Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist from €9.97 each.

Chinese (Mandarin)

Mandarin Chinese voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
http://iaxtalk.com/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=19 – Both wav and gsm format. Free download (License?). GSM files are available for download in a single ZIP archive. WAV files probably need to be downloaded separately.
The above URL is dead. Use this one http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/08/31/localizing-asterisk-for-china Credit goes to Dave.

English (US)

Asterisk comes with US-English prompts (by Allison Smith). More are available in the asterisk-sounds package. For further recordings of Allison may be purchased at Digium’s site
American English voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
http://www.voicevector.com – Pleasant, professional American English full voice packs for Asterisk and inexpensive custom recording services.

English (Australia)

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Australian female English voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.

English (UK)

British English Voice Prompts in male and female for Asterisk, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing from Westany – Professional British English voice prompts from three voice artists. Each artist can record new prompts for €9.97 each.
http://www.vid.com.au – Neutral English – Additional prompts available for reasonable cost.
http://www.g7ltt.com/VoIP/vmfiles.html – both GSM & uncompressed WAV formats

Finnish

Finnish Voice Prompts from Westany for Astrisk, AsteriskNow, Freepbx, callweaver, elastix and Trixbox – Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.

French

Asterisk Sounds: Pour qu’Asterisk parle mieux – TTS v 1.4.25 (2013-10-29) Free. Codec: sln16
French Voice Prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing from Westany – Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-fr #(package asterisk-prompt-fr)
http://www.123messagepro.com – French and English voices to create your own prompts with an easy way to customize them.
http://public.indigen.com/asterisk-1.2-sounds-fr-armelle.tar.gz – French female voice for asterisk 1.2 in GSM format

French (Québec)

Canadian French Asterisk voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
French/Québec prompts by June Wallack are now included in Asterisk and in asterisk-sounds.
Further prompts may be purchased at Digium’s site
http://newton.waglo.com/~millette/asterisk/ – gsm, speex et ogg flac (Québec)

Flemish

Flemish voice prompts for asterisk from Westany – Professional Flemish voices that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

German

Asterisk Sounds – TTS (2016-01-26)
German voices for Asterisk from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-de (out of date)

Greek

Greek Voice Prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same Greek voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.
http://www.voipsolutions.gr | VoIPsolutions.gr Greek Voice Prompts made by a Greek based company.

Hebrew

Alternate set of male prompts from Tikal Networks – Registration required; available in the download section.
Hebrew female voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.

Hungarian

Hungarian Voice Prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional voice prompts that can be customised to your requirements by the same Hungarian voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

Italian

Professional Italian voice prompts for Asterisk from Westany – Professional Italian voices that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-1414 – set of digits
http://www.voip.ammdomus.it/ or http://voip.ammdomus.it/ – voci italiane, femminile – full core set for 1.4.x (NEW!) in gsm, slin16, alaw and wav (8Khz), CC-SA-BY-2.5 Italy by Marco Menardi and Paola Dal Zot. I’ve also added some EXTRA voices in a separate set, like “all-circuits-busy-now”
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-it (based on the work of Marco Menardi and Paola Dal Zot), or in recent debian (sid) asterisk-prompt-it-menardi

Japanese

https://www.denphone.com/japanese-voice-prompts-for-asterisk-tm – free gsm Japanese prompts with syntax patch. Can also arrange professional recording for IVR systems.

Norwegian

Norwegian female voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional Norwegian prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist as required for €9.97 per prompt.

Persian(Farsi) فارسی

Full Persian voice prompts for Asterisk, Elastix, AsteriskNow, Freepbx – Asterisk Sounds + A2Billinf Sounds + Persian Digits and Date + More than 100 extra Sounds for Programming.

کامل ترین بسته پیام های فارسی استریسک و الستیکس به همراه بیش از 100 فایل اضافی برای برنامه نویسی

Polish

Polish voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional Polish voice artist that can record new prompts as required for €9.97 per prompt.
New Polish voice prompts to Asterisk, Trixbox, Elastix Polskie komunikaty słowne do Asterisk PBX We have prepare collection of Polish voice prompts. Nice men voice, clear sound. This is not of any speech synthesizers. Commercial

Portuguese (pt_pt)

Portuguese voices for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

Portuguese – Brasil (pt_br)

Asterisk Sounds – TTS v 1.4.25 (2013-10-29)
Brazilian Portuguese voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/disc-os/Disc-OS-Sounds-1.0-pt_BR.tar.gz?use_mirror=osdn – excelente trabalho realizado por http://www.disc-os.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asteriskbr – Join the Brazilian Group! (:biggrin:)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asteriskbr/files/ – prompts (Yahoo!Groups registration required)

Russian

Портал русского голосового IVR меню для Asterisk. Правильная поддержка очередей и голосовой почты. Запись фразы с именем компании.
Female Russian Voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional Russian voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

Slovak Republic

DialCom s.r.o. – Slovak sound files, complete set for asterisk,

Slovene (professional voice prompts)

http://www.munlan.net – Complete set, professional recorded. Please contact to recive the files. [email protected]

Spanish (Argentina)

Asterisk Sounds – TTS v 1.4.25 (2013-10-29)
Thaisa C core and extra packs version 1.4.12.

Spanish (Mexico)

Asterisk Sounds – TTS voz femenina con acento mexicano v 1.4.25 (2015-02-01)
Female Mexican Spanish Voice prompts for Asterisk with custom recordings available for €9.97 per prompt.
http://www.telecomabmex.com/asterisksounds/AsteriskSounds_ES.tar.gz – Almost complete set, all digits, vm, letters and basic sounds (Outdated: For Asterisk 1.0)

Spanish (Spain)

Asterisk Sounds – TTS v 1.4.26 (06-Sep-2014)
Spanish Voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing – Professional Spanish voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist, with customisations at €9.97 each.
http://www.locutortv.es Spanish voice overs. Royalty-free music free

Swedish

http://www.danielnylander.se/asterisk-saker/ – Almost complete set, Voicemail, all digits and letters. Almost 1400 sounds. Both 1.0.x and CVS compatible.
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-se
Swedish Voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver and a2billing from Westany – The voice prompts that can be customised by the same Swedish voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

Thai

Thai voices for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver & a2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.
Thai Voice for Asterisk – Thai Voice for asterisk for Download (soon).

Turkish

Turkish voices for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix, Callweaver, a2billing and Star2billing from Westany – New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

Please add to this list! Ideally providing both raw uncompressed data as well as GSMs

Commercial International Voice Prompts

https://www.denphone.com/japanese-voice-prompts-for-asterisk-tm – Professional customized voice recordings by male and female Japanese voice talents.
OpenVoice – Australian professional voice, pre-recorded Asterisk packages plus customised recordings.
Voces en la Red – Spanish Professional Prompts
Westany – We extend our range of languages all the time. If you have a need for specific language let us know. All of the prompts can be extended by the same voice artists.

Text-to-Speech Tools

Acapela Voices – including Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch (NL), Dutch (B), English (UK), English (US), Faroe, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (South America), Swedish and Turkish
AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech – TTS including German, French, Latin Am. Spanish
cepstral Many high-quality, low-cost voices available.
ELAN SaySo – including German, French, Spanish and Italian voices/phonems