[Freeswitch-users] newbie question: how do you set the folder that freeswitch uses for sounds?

[Michael Collins]

Welcome to FreeSWITCH, btw! :)

These are all good questions that are answered on the wiki and in the
awesome FreeSWITCH book. For brevity's sake here's a quick overview:

When you specify an absolute path to a file, FreeSWITCH will always look in
the exact path that you specify, no questions asked.

When you specify a relative path then FreeSWITCH will be smart and look in
the sounds directory that correlates to the sampling rate of of the channel
where the file is being played. This means you should just install all the
sound files by issuing "make cd-sounds-install" and be done with it. (This
make command will install 8k, 16k, 32k, and 48k sound files.) You can play
around by using a phone that does 16k audio like most newer polycoms or even
x-lite.

Hope this helps.

-MC

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Edward de Jong <
edward.dejong at voicecarrier.com> wrote:

> I see that in the default config, freeswitch uses sounds from the
> en/us/callie folder.
> so when you ask for playback of hello.wav, it goes to that folder by
> default.
> how does one change the folder used by freeswitch?
> i want to let the user pick between different voices, which of the many
> config files sets up which voice to use?
>
> and what if I want to have better voice on my user's phone? can I go to
> 16000 sample rate? if the user has HD capability on their phone, shouldn't I
> be using better voice samples? and how can I choose the voice folder
> depending on the phone connected to the PBX at that moment? In other words,
> if the user has an HD phone can I connect with them at the better codec?
> obviously if we connect to some other lesser device the dreaded transcoding
> will occur, but i would think for internal use, for example when the user is
> navigating menus, they would appreciate a better voice. Or should i just use
> all waveforms at 16000 and let it drop them down...
>
> thanks in advance.
>
>
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