Some Built-in prompts not playing

[w1ve]

Fixed in 1.1...

In a number of situations, I do not get prompt audio:

- When I dial into a DISA, I do not hear the password prompt, yet I see
command to play it, without error. If I enter the password, the DISA works fine.

- When I press *77 to record a message, I see the prompt messaages being commanded to play in the log, but no audio.

Most other prompts play fine.

any ideas?

 

[jroper]

Hi without checking, and this is a guess, check that the prompts are in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.

If they aren't then you will need addtional sounds

at the CLI

cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

tar zxfv asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

cd asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current

chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

Then see if it works.

Apologies in advance for any typo's, I'm writing this from memory.

Joe

 

[RizSher]

I had the same, it turns out, /var/lib/asterisk/sounds didn't have any of the .gsm and ulaw files that I used to get installed automatically with Trixbox and (later) A@H 2.8, even pls-wait-connect-call.gsm wasn't there. I actually had the files saved from before, so I just copied over - there were about 1565 files in that folder, not sure how many were overwritten in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.

 

[w1ve]

Good memory!!!

That was it. I guess the scripts need to be fixed in the ISO to include all the sounds. I notice that their is quite a delay when playing the sounds. Is gsm the standard codec, or should I download the wav version of the sounds? If I do, will it pick wav or gsm, or should I remove gsm?

 

[jroper]

Hi

It was a conscious choice not to install the extra sounds, as the brief was to create a minimal install or base system on which you could build extra applications - some of which could be your own extras, and others from the NV script directory, so it should be your choice what you want on the system.

So the asterisk core sounds were included, but the asterisk-extra-sounds were not. You will note that there are numerous codecs of the extra-sounds at http://downloads.digium.com and you may want some, none or all of them.

To create your own custom PBX, you should be able to work out from the existing scripts how to write your own scripts to change logos, install extra features and sounds, and all sorts of other things so that you can reliably replicate and automate your installations.

Joe

 

[jroper]

PS

You should install whatever codecs you wish to install, usually the same as the majority of the calls you are making to keep transcoding to a minimum.

Asterisk will try and use the most efficient codec, so you can have them all and cover all bases.

Joe

 

[kcallis]

Sounds

Just for general information, one can find the sounds at http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-sounds-1.2.1.tar.gz. And a simple make install will get them loaded quickly.

 

[jroper]

Hi

The next payload file will include the extra prompts in gsm format, as it was not fully understood at the initial release how many of the extra sounds were used by FreePBX.

The remaining files in other formats will be installable via a script, or you can just get them yourself.

Joe

 

[kcallis]

Sounds

Joe,

Sorry for re-posting the same information that you had stated earlier... Must be close to my bed time...

 

[GamblinMan]

Thanks! I was trying to find all the "missing" sounds, and I wasn't sure which to download and install.

You have solved this problem for me!

Tim

 

[merlyn]

Hi without checking, and this is a guess, check that usrthe prompts are in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.

If they aren't then you will need addtional sounds

at the CLI

cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

tar zxfv asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

cd asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current

chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

Then see if it works.

Apologies in advance for any typo's, I'm writing this from memory.

Joe

I wanted to add the asterisk extra sounds in gsm (and ulaw but that did not work either). when I followed the above steps it just explodes all the files out into the /usr/src directory. When I type cd asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current it cannot find the directory so I know I am missing a linux command to create the directory and untarball the files into it.

can anyone help?

I am running 1.0 PBX in a flash. with update-scripts and update-fixes run successsfully. I was just looking to get my system up to the 1.1 spec.

Thanks
Merlyn

 

[darmock]

You can run the update-source script and it will install it for you or the hard way

cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

(the above should be on one line)


tar -xvzf asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

rm -vf asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz

chown -vR asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

chmod -v 775 /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

Tom

 

[merlyn]

Thanks Tom you-da-man.

I went with the easy way and ran the update-source script. I was kind of scared to run this script (i really don't know why) but everything seems to be working great now.

Thanks again

 

[wardmundy]

I think we're still missing a few Allison's, too. In reworking Telephone Reminders for PBX in a Flash, I found that today.gsm was missing. Don't know why. We'll compare against the old baselines one day soon and provide a complete fix.