Misc. Dialplan Tools playback

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Plays a sound file on the current channel.

Contents 1 Example 2 Supported File Types 2.1 mod_sndfile 2.2 mod_shout 3 See Also

Example

<!--default terminator is *. Keyword 'none' disables on-key termination /-->
<action application="set" data="playback_terminators=#"/> 
<action application="playback" data="sounds/soundfile.wav"/>

Supported File Types

FreeSWITCH has an abstraction layer for file formats. Anyone can write a format module which allows file formats to be utilized from any of the places that would deal with them.

Most formats support both reading and writing, the ones that do not are identified below.

mod_sndfile

mod_sndfile libsndfile and therefore supports any format usable by libsndfile. As of libsndfile-1.0.17, the supported formats are:

• AIFF (Apple/SGI) (extension "aiff")
• AU (Sun/NeXT) (extension "au")
• AVR (Audio Visual Research) (extension "avr")
• CAF (Apple Core Audio File) (extension "caf")
• HTK (HMM Tool Kit) (extension "htk")
• IFF (Amiga IFF/SVX8/SV16) (extension "iff")
• MAT4 (GNU Octave 2.0 / Matlab 4.2) (extension "mat")
• MAT5 (GNU Octave 2.1 / Matlab 5.0) (extension "mat")
• PAF (Ensoniq PARIS) (extension "paf")
• PVF (Portable Voice Format) (extension "pvf")
• RAW (header-less) (extension "raw")
• SD2 (Sound Designer II) (extension "sd2")
• SDS (Midi Sample Dump Standard) (extension "sds")
• SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL) (extension "sf")
• VOC (Creative Labs) (extension "voc")
• W64 (SoundFoundry WAVE 64) (extension "w64")
• WAV (Microsoft) (extension "wav")
• WAV (NIST Sphere) (extension "wav")
• WAVEX (Microsoft) (extension "wav")
• XI (FastTracker 2) (extension "xi")

mod_shout

Additionally, mod_shout supplies MP3 support for files and shoutcast streams

See Also

The sound_prefix channel variable
mod_sndfile
mod_shout
mod_local_stream
mod_native_file