[arm-allstar] GSM Sounds Mushy

[Patrick Perdue]

First, you'd have to find or record everything in a better format, I.E. 
.ulaw or .sln. .sln would be the best option. This is raw PCM at 16-bit, 
8 kHz little endian.

Then, anything that needs to be driven from a script that specifically 
looks for .gsm files, I.E. all the scripts in /etc/asterisk/local/*.sh 
and *.pl would have to be find/replaced to look for .ulaw or .sln files 
instead. There are at least a couple of other scripts outside of this 
path as well which drive sound files, such as the say node registration 
script, but I've forgotten where they are now.

Every time a HamVoIP node update happens, you'd then have to fix all 
those scripts again.

I do this on all my nodes because I can't stand Allison and don't like 
GSM. Basically, I wrote a script to write out a bunch of files using a 
very fast voice from Mac  OS, called Fred, that probably most wouldn't 
want on a repeater. I just wanted the files to be very fast for my own use.

It's not quite a complete pack, and there are some things missing and 
broken, particularly with the weather conditions, which I never use, so 
I've never released it or fixed it.

If you want a higher quality version of the Allison set, you can extract 
the sound pack from ASL, which are ulaw files, but you'll have to still 
modify a bunch of scripts to make everything work.


On 11/2/2023 4:15 PM, Chris via ARM-allstar wrote:
> What would it take to allow us to play node announcements in something other
> than GSM?
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> I'm talking about the 30,000 odd node files in
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> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/rpt/nodenames/
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> By the way, we're up to 59321.gsm. I wonder how much higher we can go
> without problems?
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> I just did a write_node_callsigns.sh -ao on a new node, and it processed
> 30,198 nodes.
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> 73,
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> Chris
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