This page contains information about international Asterisk sound files.

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. Find these instructions for details and procedures: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/doc/lang/language-criteria.txt?view=markup Everyone who has submitted a language below is encouraged to re-package their sound files for addition. Questions can be sent to John Todd (jtodd@digium.com) 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

NOTE: The file structure for 1.2 is different than for 1.4:

• 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 ...)

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.

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)

• 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 availble 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.

Czech Republic

• Czech 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.
• Daktela s.r.o. - České hlášky pro Asterisk PBX - Czech Asterisk Sound files
• http://voipex.cz/download/asterisk-core-sounds-cz-wav-1.4.4.tar.gz

Danish

• Female Danish voice prompts for Asterisk, trixbox, freepbx, elastix, callweaver, a2billing and star2billing from Westany - Personalised voice Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist.
• http://mediafiles.globaltel.dk/da-voice-prompts.tar - Should be a complete set :) including raw uncompressed data

Dutch

• Female Dutch voice prompts for Asterisk, trixbox, freepbx, elastix, callweaver, a2billing and star2billing from Westany - New Prompts can be recorded by the same voice artist.
• http://www.borndigital.nl/voip.asp?page=190&title=Download_Asterisk_Soundfiles - Dutch male voice. GSM format.
• http://freedl.triballs.com/?search_request=Asterisk - Dutch Female (Laura) sound files (gsm/ulaw) created with natural text2speech (custom prompts possible)
• http://freedl.triballs.com/?search_request=Asterisk - Dutch Female (Claire) sound files (gsm/ulaw) created with natural text2speech (custom prompts possible)
• http://freedl.triballs.com/?search_request=Asterisk - Dutch (Belgium) Female (Ellen) sound files (gsm/ulaw) created with natural text2speech (custom prompts possible)

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
• 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.
• Asterisk English Voice Prompts Male and Female Asterisk Voice Packages - Direct Replacements.
• Free Asterisk Voice prompts by Pat Fleet, the voice of AT&T and the old U.S. RBOCs Make your asterisk system sound like AT&T's, (Bug: The "at.*" should be moved from /letters to /digits).
• http://www.voicevector.com - Pleasant, professional American English full voice packs for Asterisk and inexpensive custom recording services.

English (Australia)

• 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.
• http://www.crafted.com.au/blog/free-tools/ - 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 - VoIPShop - Australian Female voice, custom recordings. 1900 recordings.
• http://www.voicestudio.com.au/asterisksounds - Complete female Australian Sounds - Custom prompts also available. 5% Discount Coupon Code 'VOIPINFO' for the premium set.

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 Voice Prompts - UK Male and Female Asterisk Voice Prompts
• 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.enicomms.com/cutglassivr/ - British English female voice (FREE). Most main prompts, including conference-related.
• 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
• http://www.tel.net/voice.html - UK english in GSM & PCM format. Can also purchase customised prompts.

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

• 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 customized them.
• http://www.sineapps.com/FrenchPrompts.tar.gz - ready to go in GSM format
• 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 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 purchaced at Digium's site
• http://newton.waglo.com/~millette/asterisk/ - gsm, speex et ogg flac (Québec)

Flemish

• Flemish voice prompts for asterisk 1.4.x, 1.6.x and 1.8.x from Westany - Professional Flemish voices that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 per prompt.

German

• German TTS voice prompts for Asterisk 1.2-1.6 - full set of German voice prompts plus some extra prompts and the possibility to order customized ones. Free web-based German Text-to-Speech engine.
• 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 voice prompts - Better than 1.4.22 for correct grammar support. Earlier 1.4 version can be patched. See www.asterisk.org.il for more information.
• 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

• http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001429 - 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
• http://www.segreterietelefoniche.it/asterisk.php - professional recorded male voices

Japanese

• ftp://ftp.voip-info.jp/asterisk/sounds/ - full set of sounds, professional voice recorded in GSM format.
• http://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 male voice prompts from FreeCode / NFFH. - Available in original high end Wav-files, GSM and Ulaw/A-law
• 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

• Persian voice prompts for Asterisk, AsteriskNow, Trixbox, Freepbx, Elastix - With recorded digits sounds and instruction on how to install.

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
• Polish voice files for Asterisk / AskoziaPBX - These media files are free: you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Public License.

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.
• StarTel translated the Asterisk sounds to Portuguese (with Portuguese accent): www.startel.pt

Portuguese - Brasil (pt_br)

• 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.
• Набор IVR файлов для русского дистрибутива Asterisk - AstPbx.
• 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 Servis 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. info@munlan.org

Spanish (Argentina)

• Elianna pack v1.0 - Complete set, professional recorded audios
• Net Security Solutions - Nuevas Voces de Asterisk en Español con Acento Neutro Asterisk Colombia - 2008-07-23
• Thaisa C core and extra packs version 1.4.12.

Spanish (Colombia)

• http://www.asteriskcolombia.org - Almost complete set, professional recorded with neutral Spanish accent.
• Net Security Solutions - Nuevas Voces de Asterisk en Español con Acento Neutro Asterisk Colombia - 2008-07-23
• Spanish Asterisk Voice Prompts - Complete set of Asterisk Voice Prompts in Spanish

Spanish (Mexico)

• Female Mexican Spanish Voice prompts for Asterisk with custom recordings available for €9.97 per prompt.
• Nucleum - Great spanish male voices for Asterisk 1.4 Nucleum - 2009-02-10
• Net Security Solutions - Nuevas Voces de Asterisk en Español con Acento Neutro Asterisk Colombia - 2008-07-23
• 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)

• Net Security Solutions - Nuevas Voces de Asterisk en Español con Acento Neutro Asterisk Colombia - 2008-07-23
• Spanish Asterisk Voice Prompts - Complete set of Asterisk Voice Prompts in Spanish

Spanish (Spain)

• Net Security Solutions - Nuevas Voces de Asterisk en Español con Acento Neutro Asterisk Colombia - 2008-07-23
• 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)
• 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.

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

• http://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
• Voffice - Complete Brazilian Portuguese voice prompts, can be extended by the same voice artists.
• 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.
• Italian voice prompts for 1.4.x to 1.8.x from Westany - Professional Italian voices that can be customised by the same voice artist for €9.97 each.

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
• Amooma TTS - Free web-based Text-to-Speech engine for German. Can be customized in SAMPA alphabet.
• 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

See also

• Asterisk multi-language
• Asterisk sound files (now integrated into CVS HEAD)
• Asterisk sound files additional
• http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001429 - i18n patches for say.c (now integrated into CVS HEAD)
• http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0001485 - i18n changes for app_voicemail.c (now integrated into CVS HEAD)

Where to Buy

UK & Worldwide - VoIPon - Best Prices and Support on Westany Asterisk Voice Prompts - Call for reseller pricing or International Shipping. VoIPon.

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