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Re: [ECS] Need help with phone sound. Bill Walters Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:22:15 -0500

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Reddy,

See the message for replies:
> 1)  The sound via the Zoom modem is horrible. There is really low volume,
> and it's distorted.
> I added the ECS_ADPCM_REV item and set it to 1 and the problem is worse.
>
> For text to speech, I have tried Mary and Mary for telephone. It already
> sounds like she is in space, or in a stadium, without adding those special
> effects!

This may be the problem... DON'T use the "for telephone" voice.  I know, I
know, that's backwards but using the "for telephone" voice screws up the
speech output.  Try the "normal" Mary, reboot and try again...

>
> 2) When making paging announcements, there is about a 5 second wait before
> sound even starts.
>

This is driven by your CPU and what is "running".  I expect you have too
much "overhead" on your machine. I had the same delay when I was using a
K6-266 cpu; changed out to K6-2 400 and MUCHO better...  Make sure you have
128 MB ram also, if you're running anything else besides ECS.


> 3) I cant get .wav files played to the phone during announcements, either
by
> specifying them in the phone call item, or by leaving the phone call item
> "open" by using the X parameter at the end of the dial string , and then
> playing them via PLAY->PC:Ln/Sp .
>

Are you saying you cannot get an outgoing announcement to play on the phone
modem when you call in?  Can't get phone messages that ECS recorded to play
on the phone when you call in to retrieve them, or something else entirely??
I have never used .WAV files, just text files for speech output.

> I get a "Error #13 permission denied" error.

Never seen this error, but I suspect that it has to do with the encoding of
your .WAV file.  Anyone else got any ideas?

> Otherwise, I feel like I am re-inventing the wheel here. I am starting
fresh
> and re-writing my entire ECS code. Since I have eight years of ECS code, I
> am having some difficulty remembering some of the algorithms used when I
> originally wrote the code. Is there a way to easily include remarks in
event
> code ?

Sure, start the line with a semi-colon as the first character, and remark
away!

Good luck!

Bill Walters

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