The files we get from GMVoices are slightly &quot;loud&quot; for some folks, so we run them through sox with the -v 0.2 arg and it &quot;normalizes&quot; them a bit. However, I wouldn&#39;t do that same trick again on the sounds files in <a href="http://files.freeswitch.org">files.freeswitch.org</a> since they&#39;ve already been normalized. If you do then you&#39;d definitely be lowering the volume to what many would consider to be a really low level.<br>
<br>-MC<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM, D&#39;Arcy J.M. Cain <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:darcy@vex.net" target="_blank">darcy@vex.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have just committed the music package for FreeSWITCH into the NetBSD<br>
pkgsrc tree.  I am now working on the sounds package.<br>
<br>
I looked at the FreeBSD port (their version of our pkgsrc) and they run<br>
a sox command on the files something of like this:<br>
<br>
sox -v 0.2 &lt;filename&gt; -r 8000 -c 1 /tmp/&lt;filename&gt;<br>
<br>
The -v option adjusts the volume.  Does this seem like a reasonable<br>
thing to do in general?  The default adjustment (0.2) lowers it quite a<br>
bit.<br>
<br>
--<br>
D&#39;Arcy J.M. Cain<br>
System Administrator, Vex.Net<br>
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