These sounds were recorded in March of 2003 by Allison Smith, who does PBX voicemail voices for hire and is the voice of Asterisk. She does a great job! I gave her a list of words and phrases, and quickly she had sent me back a continuous file of what I needed. I cut the file up into pieces, and some of them are in this directory for your use. Note: she did not, in fact, make the monkey noises. You can order prompts yourself from http://thevoice.digium.com/ Me: jtodd@loligo.com -- Update 2003-07-11 I have been able to contract with Allison for more sounds thanks to a generous grant from VoicePulse (http://www.voicepulse.com) These sounds have have been donated to the Asterisk community. Many of these sounds will probably find their way into the Asterisk standard distribution (notably the number enunciations, which are useful for speaking dates.) However, the rest are for general consumption. I have added a file called "sounds-extra.txt" which contains all of the names of the sound files and their contents. These sounds are BSD-licensed, meaning that they can be used for any purpose, including incorporation into commercial packages. Since voice prompts can't really be modified and/or improved, putting them in the GPL just seems a bit silly, and I am in favor of BSD licensing anyway. -- Update 2004-01-17 MORE sounds! Whee! Your generous donations are appreciated.