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Sound Files
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Add Sounds Files
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On a fresh install, only en_US and fr_FR sounds are installed. Canadian French and German are available too.

To install Canadian French sounds you have to execute the following command::

    apt-get install asterisk-sounds-wav-fr-ca xivo-sounds-fr-ca

To install German sounds you have to execute the following command::

    apt-get install asterisk-sounds-wav-de-de xivo-sounds-de-de

Now you may select the newly installed language for your users.


.. _wav_files:

Convert Your Wav File
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Asterisk will read natively WAV files encoded in wav 8kHz, 16 bits, mono.

The following command will return the encoding format of the <file>

::

   $ file <file>
   RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz

The following command will re-encode the <input file> with the correct parameters for asterisk and
write into the <output file>::

   sox <input file> -b 16 -c 1 -t wav <output file> rate -I 8000