Saturday, September 11, 2004

New conference sounds

I decided to change the enter and leave sounds on the Bell's Mind bridge today. It wasn't quite as easy as I thought. Here's the process...

1) Record a sound (sound.wav).
2) Convert the sound to 8 KHz ulaw (sox sound.wav -r 8000 sound.ul).
3) Hex dump the ulaw file with the octal dump utility (od -t x1 sound.ul > sound.h)
4) Now mangle the values by hand into a C style array (I won't explain that here).
5) Modify the Asterisk source to use your new sound, recompile and restart Asterisk (I won't explain that here either).

I figured after all my hard work that it'd be a welcome addition to the box. Boy was I wrong... :P Listen to the new enter and leave sounds and let me know what you think.

If you have some sounds you'd rather hear on the bridge, of course, e-mail me. Just don't ask for the default Asterisk sounds because I absolutely hate them (especially the enter sound).