Asterisk sound files international

Installation

Use language= in a .conf file, or use the SetLanguage() application in extensions.conf
Place the voice prompts into a directory structure as follows (usually within /var/lib/asterisk/:
- sounds/xx
- sounds/digits/xx
- sounds/letters/xx
- sounds/phonetic/xx

where xx is the two letter ISO code of the language in question (nl, fr, de, it, pt, es ...)
(NOTE: The structure for 1.4 is diferent but it requires a configuration change)

Catalan (Spain)

http://casal.upc.es/~silvia29 - Beta set in GSM format in development. For asterisk 1.2 and AMP. Female voice. +1800 sound files.

Chinese (Mandarin)

http://iaxtalk.com/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=19 - Both wav and gsm format. Free download (License?). GSM files are availble for download in a single ZIP archive. WAV files probably need to be downloaded separately.

Czech Republic

Danish

http://www.globaltelip.dk/downloads/da-voice-prompts.rar - Should be a complete set :) including raw uncompressed data

Dutch

http://www.borndigital.nl/voip.asp?page=106&title=Asterisk_Soundfiles - Dutch male voice. GSM format.

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 purchaced at Digium's site
Asterisk American English male voice prompts from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist.
Asterisk English Voice Prompts Male and Female Asterisk Voice Packages - Direct Replacements.
http://www.voicevector.com - Pleasant, professional American English full voice packs for Asterisk and inexpensive custom recording services.

English (Australia)

http://crafted.com.au/portal1/content/view/20/37/ - Clear Neutral Australian Female, reasonably complete. Free for commercial use.
http://www.openvoice.com.au/ - Australian voice. Free plus complete dropin packages plus custom studio recording
http://www.voipshop.com.au - Australian Voice

English (New Zealand)

http://voiceprompt.archnetnz.com - New Zealand voice in GSM and WAV format - Additional prompts available for reasonable cost.

English (South Africa)

http://www.truevoice.co.za/voip.htm - package of over 340 free prompts for Asteriskâ„¢ from True Voice Communications and Connection Telecom

English (UK)

Asterisk British English Voice Prompts in male and female from Westany - Professional British English voice prompts from three voice artists. Each artist can record new prompts as you need them.
Asterisk Voice Prompts - UK Male and Female Asterisk Voice Prompts
http://www.tel.net/voice.html - UK english in GSM & PCM format. Can also purchase customised prompts.
http://www.g7ltt.com/VoIP/vmfiles.html - both GSM & uncompressed WAV formats
http://www.vid.com.au - Neutral English - Additional prompts available for reasonable cost.
http://www.enicomms.com/cutglassivr/ - British English female voice (FREE). Most main prompts, including conference-related.

Finnish

Finnish Voice Prompts from Westany for Astrisk, AsteriskNow, Freepbx and Trixbox - Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist.

French

Asterisk French Voice Prompts from Westany - Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist.
http://www.123messagepro.com - French and English voices to create your own prompts with an easy way to customized them.
http://www.sineapps.com/FrenchPrompts.tar.gz - ready to go in GSM format
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-fr #(package asterisk-prompt-fr)
http://public.indigen.com/asterisk-1.2-sounds-fr-armelle.tar.gz - French female voice for asterisk 1.2 in GSM format
http://xivo.fr/debian/asterisk-prompt-fr_0.0.20070104-1_all.deb - Free french female voice for asterisk 1.2 (wav format). Note that the apt source mentioned in the article includes a complete set of asterisk-related packages, and not just the french prompts. If you want just them, see the link to the Debian package above or use the original tarball directly.

French (Québec)

Canadian French Asterisk voice prompts from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist.
French/Québec prompts by June Wallack are now included in Asterisk and in asterisk-sounds.
Further prompts may be purchaced at Digium's site
http://newton.waglo.com/~millette/asterisk/ - gsm, speex et ogg flac (Québec)

German

German voices for Asterisk, Trixbox and AstriskNow from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist and extra prompts are included for compatability with Trixbox, Freepbx and Asterisk Now.
http://www.amooma.de/asterisk/prompts/ - full set of German voice prompts plus some extra prompts and the possibility to order customized prompts.
http://www.karl.aegee.org/asterisk.nsf/HT/sound-de - full set of sounds
http://www.stadt-pforzheim.de/asterisk/ - full set of sounds, professional voice recorded (archive includes path /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/..)
http://www.asteriskfreaks.com - professional recorded german voicefile package for asterisk, for free !
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-de

Greek

Greek Voice Prompts from Westany for Astrisk, AsteriskNow, Freepbx and Trixbox - Professional voice prompts that can be customised by the same Greek voice artist.

Hungarian

Hungarian Voice Prompts from Westany for Astrisk, AsteriskNow, Freepbx and Trixbox - Professional voice prompts that can be customised to your requirements by the same Hungarian voice artist.

Italian

Asterisk Italian voice prompts from Westany - Professional Italian voice artist that can record new prompts as required.
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001429 - set of digits
On Debian: apt-get install asterisk-prompt-it
http://mirror.tomato.it/ftp/pub/asterisk/suoni_ita/ - full set for 1.2.x svn (NEW!) and old set for 1.0.x (needed some patch from cvs for the correct syntax)

Japanese

ftp://ftp.voip-info.jp/asterisk/sounds/ - full set of sounds, professional voice recorded in GSM format.
http://www.denphone.com/en/prompts - free gsm Japanese prompts with syntax patch.

Norwegian

Norwegian voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, Asterisknow, Trixbox and Freepbx - Professional Norwegian prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist as required.

Polish

Polish voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, Asterisknow, Trixbox and Freepbx - Professional Polish voice artist that can record new prompts as required.
Westany is the only company currently providing Polish sound files (there is one named Thulium that claim to have such project - but they use this wiki as free advertising source, providing nothing instead)

Portuguese (pt_pt)

Portuguese voices for Asterisk, Trixbox, Freepbx and AstriskNow from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist and extra prompts are included for compatability with Trixbox, Freepbx and Asterisk Now.
StarTel translated the Asterisk sounds to Portuguese (with Portuguese accent): www.startel.pt

Portuguese - Brasil (pt_br)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asteriskbr/files/ - prompts (Yahoo!Groups registration required)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asteriskbr - Join the Brazilian Group! (:biggrin:)
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

Russian

Female Russian Voice prompts from Westany for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Freepbx and Trixbox - Professional Russian voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist.

Slovene (professional voice prompts)

http://www.munlan.net - Complete set, professional recorded. Please contact to recive the files. info@munlan.org

Spanish (Argentina)

Elianna pack v1.0 - Complete set, professional recorded audios

Spanish (Colombia)

http://www.asteriskcolombia.org/downloads/asterisk-sonidos-esCO-ac_0.1.zip - Almost complete set, professional recorded with neutral Spanish accent.
Spanish Asterisk Voice Prompts - Complete set of Asterisk Voice Prompts in Spanish

Spanish (Mexico)

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000237 - basic set of digits
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 (Puerto Rico)

Spanish Asterisk Voice Prompts - Complete set of Asterisk Voice Prompts in Spanish

Spanish (Spain)

Asterisk Spanish Voice prompts from Westany - Professional Spanish voice prompts that can be customised by the same voice artist.
http://www.runsolutions.com/index.php?sec=35 - Complete Professional recorded Spanish Sounds Asterisk 1.0.9
http://www.voipnovatos.es/index.php?itemid=943 - Complete Professional Spanish Prompts Asterisk 1.2.x .
http://www.voipnovatos.es/voces - Professional female spanish voices in many formats for Asterisk 1.4.x. (License=Creative Commons SA 2.5)

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

Thai

Thai Voice for Asterisk - Thai Voice for asterisk for Download (soon).

Turkish

Turkish voices for Asterisk from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist and extra prompts are included for compatability with Trixbox, Freepbx and Asterisk Now.

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

Commercial International Voice Prompts

OpenVoice - Australian professional voice, pre-recorded Asterisk packages plus customised recordings.
Voffice - Complete Brazilian Portuguese voice prompts, can be extended by the same voice artists.
Digium - Allison Smith (default voice in Asterisk) provides prompts though an easy interface.
Voipshop Australia - Australian Voice Commercial License, Custom Prompts available.
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.
Voces en la Red - Spanish Professional Prompts

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
Loquendo TTS - including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek, Catalan, Swedish voices
Mbrola - a Freely Available Multilingual Speech Synthesizer for many languages
Nuance Realspeak - supports 24 languages and dialects and more than 30 voices
Rethorical - text to sound files, including some International.
Sakrament TTS Engine - including Russian, with English coming soon

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