[Freeswitch-users] Best practices for recording audio prompts

[Ray Keating]

Try Audacity (www.audacityteam.org).   You can set the sample rate and the various other key recording parameters.  It has a graphical
display of the recorded audio with time registration so that you can edit the prompt (to remove leading silence, for example).  Since
you can set the sample rate, you won't need to use sox to re-sample.

Use a good quality microphone and isolate it from ambient vibrations that would otherwise get recorded as background noise.

Regards,

Ray

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Avers [mailto:michael at mailworks.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:55 PM
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Best practices for recording audio prompts

Hello,

Can anyone share some tips about recording good audio prompts? We ideally would like to have them in a variety of sample rates (as they will be used internally as well as when callers dial in from PSTN) to avoid resampling as much as possible. What should it be recorded as originally? Would we then just use sox to resample? Any good apps for Windows? (I haven't used Windows in many years but the person who will be recording would be).

Any other considerations to take into account would be greatly appreciated.. it's our first time recording our own set of prompts.

Thanks
Mike