[arm-allstar] Audio levels of announcements

Tue Dec 29 17:59:32 EST 2015

Sounds great and thanks for the great info Doug. Its a bunch of great
stuff. I think at this point I will try square one so I will first do the
audio adjustments like you suggested and see if this perhaps will take care
of the issue. You stay well and have a great new year , thx again for the
quick response and taking the time to do so.
All the best, Jeff

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Asterisk's sound files are in  /var/lib/asterisk/sounds and all
> directories under that. These are what we call the Alison sounds recorded
> by a real person. You can marry together the phrases to create what you
> want to say. These sounds are used by Allstar to create the messages you
> hear.
>
> The on the hour time you hear is a Perl script I wrote and it includes the
> ability to change the level on the fly. See /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl
> Scroll near the bottom and you will see a sox statement that varies the
> level. It is fixed at 0.35 which is considerably lower than the normal 1.0
> -  you can raise or lower it by changing that value in this file. A lower
> number, less than .35 would make it softer. This would only change the
> level of the hourly time though.
>
> I just remembered I put a script in for specifically changing the volume
> on an audio  file. Sometimes I forget things too!  It is described in the
> scripts how-to on the web page. The file is  change_vol.sh
>
>  Change volume of a sound file -
>
>     change_vol.sh <infile> <outfile> <vol>
>
>     To lower vol <1 (ex. .1-.99) - To raise vol >1 (ex. 1.1 -1.9)
>
>    change_vol.sh inputfile.wav outputfile.wav .35
>
> So all you have to do is run an audio file you want to change through this
> script. If you examine this script you will see how it is done with sox.
>
> You really only need to change the level of the audio files that Allstar
> uses but it would be several. Like all the numeric files, connect message,
> etc.  You can go into the asterisk client - asterisk -rvvv and see the file
> names Allstar uses when it says things. Like the "to" in connected to is
> actually the numeric 2 as it sounds the same.
>
> As far as commands are concerned there is a description of commands at
> this site -
>
> http://ohnosec.org/drupal/
>
> Someone spent a lot of time putting this site together but to me it is a
> little convoluted. You can wend your way through it maybe find what you
> want. Another way is to Google "asterisk app_rpt xxxxxx"   where xxxxx is
> the command you are searching for help on. It usually takes you to the
> specific description for the command.
>
> The howto's on the hamvoip.org page help a little but don't hesitate to
> ask if you don't understand something. We are here to help.
>
>
>
> *73 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:11:59 -0500
> From: jeff.savasta at gmail.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Audio levels of announcements
>
>
> Thanks for the great explanation Doug. I have been working on this for
> like a month now and it was driving me crazy. You explained it well. I am
> glad I am not nuts.
> I actually thought it might have been the file in rpt.conf called
> amplitude ans idamplitude? I tried playing with that to no avail? Its under
> the morse settings where I see it. I am now assuming that’s for morse only?
>
> Thanks for the great tips.I will do what you say. I wonder where the other
> sound files would be such as "The time is" and "Connection to" etc? Maybe I
> can adjust each one?
>
> Doug, while I got you where can I find info out about sox and also all the
> setting and what they do in rpt.conf, simpleusb and radiousb that really
> explains it well for this newcomer?
>
>  I am starting to dig this Linux stuff and its been a learning curve but
> has been worth every bit of it. The Pi is the neatest thing since the
> proverbial sliced bread. You have done a great job with it and the hard
> work is much appreciated!
>
>
> Thanks so much, Jeff :)
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
>  There is no direct setting for the levels of telemetry (voice, ID, etc.)
> in Allstar. Most people find that setting the RX and TX levels properly
> results in a reasonable voice level. I say reasonable because some would
> like it to be lower. As an example if you had the TX level turned up to
> compensate for a low RX level it would make the telemetry sound louder. So
> make sure you have them set correctly.
>
> One way to change the level is to process all of the audio files to lower
> their level. I believe someone has written a script to do that??? It would
> basically run all the files voice through sox and reduce the volume. If it
> is just your local ID you want to adjust then it would be much easier. Just
> run the node-id.ul file in /etc/asterisk/local through sox to reduce the
> volume.
>
> Changing the level of each file is a rather crude way to do it and a much
> better way would be to have a parameter to do this. This is yet another
> feature that should be included in a future release. Like the echolink
> level we should have a general telemetry level. It is on our list!
>
>
>
> *73 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:25:55 -0500
> From: jeff.savasta at gmail.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Audio levels of announcements
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> If this has already been addressed I apologize but being new to the group
> I was unsure of how to search through old posts as I am new to the group.
>
> Here is my problem, I am trying to set up my audio levels on my
> allstar/Echolink Pi node. I am aware of how to adjust the levels in Allstar
> and Echolink but can not seem to adjust the voice level of the
> announcements such as the connecting callsign,my callsign and the time. It
> seems to be extremely loud. I am going crazy on where to find the info on
> the volume adjustment file.
>
> I went into the RPT.conf file and looked there but am finding it very
> difficult to find real good documentation on these menu items so its
> difficult to get info on each file.
>
> Where am I going wrong here and did I miss something?
>
> The radio is a Kenwood with the DMK interface which is operating in Vox
> mode.
>
> All help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Jeff KB4JKL
>
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