Aastra CNX Procedure Manual

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Document Revision 01.02

Aastra CNX Product Portfolio

August 2006

Aastra CNX

Language Packs and

Announcements

Procedures

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Contents

Customizing Announcments for Aastra CNX Language Packs

About this section .....................................................................................................................1

Downloading and unpacking language packs ...................................................................2

.

Downloading Aastra CNX language packs .................................................................2.

Unpacking a lanaguage pack file ................................................................................2.

Unpacking the .tar.gz file on Windows OS ............................................................2

Unpacking the .tar.gz file on UNIX/Linux OS ........................................................3

The .tar.gz contents .............................................................................................. 3

Audio Editing Applications ...........................................................................................4

.

Customizing an announcement file ...................................................................................5.

Description ..................................................................................................................5.

Requirements ....................................................................................................... 5

Open, edit, record, and save an audio announcment file ............................................6

.

Requirement .........................................................................................................6

Rebuilding a language pack ............................................................................................ 11

.

Description ................................................................................................................ 11.

Creating the .tar.gz file .............................................................................................. 11.

Creating a .tar.gz file on Windows OS ................................................................ 11

Creating a .tar.gz file on UNIX/Linux OS ............................................................ 12

Loading/Removing Language Packs/Announcment Files

About this section ...................................................................................................................15

Loading language packs/announcements to the Aastra CNX .........................................16

.

Description ................................................................................................................16.

Loading language packs ...........................................................................................17.

Procedure for loading language packs ............................................................... 17

Loading customized announcments ..........................................................................20

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Procedure for loading customized greetings ...................................................... 20

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Removing Language Packs/Announcments from the Aastra CNX .................................23

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Description ................................................................................................................23.

Procedure for removing language packs ............................................................24

Procedure for removing customized greetings ...................................................27

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Appendix A

Aastra CNX Conference Announcements

Aastra CNX Announcements ......................................................................................... A-1

.

English Announcements (US/UK) ................................................................................. A-2.

French Canadian Announcements ................................................................................ A-7.

Spanish Mexican Announcements .............................................................................. A-13.

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Customizing Announcements for

Aastra CNX Language Packs

About this section

This chapter provides information for creating, recording, saving, playing, and

editing Aastra CNX customized announcements for Aastra CNX language packs.

It describes how to download, unpack, and rebuild language pack files.

Topics in this document include:

Topic Page Number

Downloading and unpacking language packs page 2

Customizing an announcement file page 5

Rebuilding a language pack page 11

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Downloading and unpacking language packs

Downloading Aastra CNX language packs

An Aastra CNX language pack consists of a gzipped tar file called

“<language>.tar.gz”. A tar file format is a type of archive file format

(Tape ARchive). Gzip is an external compression utility that compresses a single

tar file.

Examples of Aastra CNX language pack files are:

• en-uk.tar.gz (British English language pack)

• fr-ca.tar.gz (French Canadian language pack)

• sp-mx.tar.gz (Spanish Mexican language pack)

You can download Aastra CNX language packs from the Aastra Web site at:

http://www.aastratelecom.com/support/show_downloads.asp?p=238.

Unpacking a lanaguage pack file

After downloading a language pack file (<filename>.tar.gz) to your computer, you

can unpack it using an unzip utility such as “WinZip” for Windows, or by using a

decompress utility on UNIX and Linux.

Unpacking the .tar.gz file on Windows OS

On a Windows OS, you can use the unzip utility to decompress the .tar.gz file as

follows:

1. Double-click the gzipped <filename>.tar.gz file.

2. Extract the files into an appropriate directory on your PC.

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Unpacking the .tar.gz file on UNIX/Linux OS

On UNIX/Linux OS, you can use the gtar utility to decompress the .tar.gz file as

follows:

gtar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

The .tar.gz contents

The unzipped file contains approximately 80 .pcm files containing voice prompts

and tones, and a text file called “language.txt”. The following illustration is an

example of an unzipped language pack file:

language.txt file

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The language.txt file contains the Aastra CNX configuration setting for that

language file. For example:

4

British-English

The first line (4) is the language pack version number, which the CNX uses to

check that the language pack is up-to-date. In the above example, version 4

applies to CNX Release 1.3 and earlier releases.

The second line (British-English) is the name of the language pack that the CNX

web interface uses to show which packs are installed.

Audio Editing Applications

You can edit and/or play the .pcm files using an audio editing program. You can

also customize the announcements in these files for your application. Some

examples of audio editing programs are:

• WavePad or Cool Edit (for use on Windows operating systems)

• MIXViews (for use on UNIX operating systems)

• Audacity

®

(for use on Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other

operating systems)

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Customizing an announcement file

Description

This section provides a procedure to open, edit, record, and save an audio

announcement file.

The key characteristics of each Aastra CNX announcement file (.pcm file) are:

• µ-Law compression (mu-law compression)

• Single channel (mono)

• 8000 Hz sample rate

The following section provides a procedure to open, edit, record, and save an

audio file using Audacity on the Windows operating system.

Requirements

• Aastra Telecom recommends using a USB digital microphone in a quiet room

when performing the recording.

• You must open and save the file at a sample rate of 8000 Hz in mono (single)

channel format.

• When the recording is complete, you must save it in raw pulse code

modulation (PCM) format G.711 µ-Law.

• You should have a list of the default greetings (in English) that the Aastra

CNX uses. You will need to read these greetings (in your desired language)

aloud as you are recording. See Appendix A, “Aastra CNX Conference

Announcements” for a list of the Aastra CNX announcements in various

languages.

Note: You must retain these same characteristics in order to use the

language pack on the Aastra CNX.

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Open, edit, record, and save an audio announcment file

Use the following procedure to open, edit, record, and save an audio

announcement file.

Requirement

• You must have already downloaded and decompressed the Aastra CNX

Language Pack file (<language>.tar.gz) to your PC.

• You should refer to Appendix A, “Aastra CNX Conference Announcements”

for a listing of each voice prompt.

Step Action

1 Open your audio editing application.

Note: The remainder of this procedure uses the Audacity audio editing program on a Windows

operating system for presentation purposes.

2Select Project->Import Raw Data from the menu.

The following window displays:

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3 Navigate to the location of your Aastra CNX .pcm files, select the file you want to edit, and click

.

The following window displays:

4 Set the parameters in the “Import Raw Data” window as follows, and then click :

•U-Law

• 1-Channel (Mono)

• Sample Rate: 8000 Hz

Step Action

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5 Play and/or edit the file as required. To record a new file, click the record button ( ) and

record your announcement.

Note: Refer to Appendix A, “Aastra CNX Conference Announcements” for a list of

announcments on the Aastra CNX.

The following illustration indicates the Audacity tools you can use to play and edit a .pcm file.

Note: For additional information about using your audio editing program, consult the Help files

for your particular program.

Step Action

Skip to start

Play

Record

Pause

Stop

Skip to end

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6Select Edit->Preferences from the menu and click the “File Formats” tab.

7 In the “Uncompressed Export Formats” list box, select Other.

The following window displays:

8 Set the parameters in the “File Format” box to the following, and click .

• Header: RAW (header-less)

• Encoding: U-Law

9 Click again to close the “Audacity Preferences” window.

Step Action

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10 Select File>Export as RAW from the menu.

Navigate to the location where you want to save the file and click .

Warning: You must save the file in raw format (PCM format) in order for the file to work on the

Aastra CNX..

11 When you have finished editing and/or recording the audio announcement files, you must rebuild

the language pack before loading it onto the Aastra CNX.

Refer to the next section, “Rebuilding a language pack” on page 11.

Step Action

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Rebuilding a language pack

Description

This section provides information for rebuilding the language pack after you have

customized the .pcm files.

Creating the .tar.gz file

Since the native operating environment of the Aastra CNX is Linux, it is

necessary to use appropriate tools to create the .tar.gz file. On Unix or Linux

operating systems, this can be done easily. However, on a Windows operating

system, the typical tools such as WinZip are not applicable to rebuilding this file.

The following section describes how to create the .tar.gz file on a Windows,

UNIX and Linux OS.

Creating a .tar.gz file on Windows OS

There are useful utilities that allow you to rebuild tar and gzipped files on

Windows OS, such as tar to create a tar file, and gzip to compress the tar file.

You can use the following utilities on Windows to rebuild the .tar.gz file:

• tar (download from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm)

• gzip (download from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm)

Note: WinZip reads and unzips .tar.gz files, but it cannot create them.

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Creating a .tar.gz file on UNIX/Linux OS

Versions of common GNU/Linux command line utilities, such as tar and gzip are

also readily available for UNIX/Linux OS. The gzip utility is built into the Linux

OS.

You can use the following utilities to rebuild the .tar.gz file:

• tar (download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/)

• gzip (download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/)

To create the tar file, use the following command:

tar -cfv <filename>.tar *

To compress the .tar file, use the following command:

gzip -v <filename>.tar

Example

For example, you edit the .pcm files with the Yorkshire dialect of English, and

place the files and the modified language.txt file in a directory called d:\en-yorks.

You would then use the following commands to create the language pack:

D:\en-yorks> tar -cvf en-yorks.tar *

add_ports_title.pcm

already_extended.pcm

are_you_sure_1_3.pcm

...

wait_to_join.pcm

welcome.pcm

D:\en-yorks> gzip -v en-yorks.tar

en-yorks.tar: 22.5% -- replaced with en-yorks.tar.gz

The en-yorks.tar.gz file could then be loaded to your Aastra CNX using the upload

feature specified in the section, “Loading/Removing Language Packs/

Announcment Files” on page 13.

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Loading/Removing

Language Packs/Announcment Files

About this section

This document provides information about loading/removing language packs and

customized conference announcements to the Aastra CNX.

Topics in this document include:

Topic Page Number

Loading language packs/announcements to the Aastra CNX page 14

Removing Language Packs/Announcments from the Aastra CNX page 21

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Loading language packs/announcements to the

Aastra CNX

Description

The Announcement Options tool in the Maintain CNX window allows you to

load language packs and customized conference announcements to/from the

Aastra CNX.

Language pack files are identified as “<language>.tar.gz”. Customized greeting

files are identified as “<filename>.pcm”. Using the Announcement Options

button, you can load new files to the Aastra CNX from your PC.

This section describes the following announcement options:

• Loading language packs

• Loading customized announcements

Announcement

Options

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Loading language packs

You can load language packs or a customized language pack to the Aastra CNX to

provide various language options to users as required. A language pack consists of

conference announcements in a specific language. The Aastra CNX has the

following language packs available:

• English (default language)

• British-English (available for announcements only)

• French-Canadian

• Spanish

Procedure for loading language packs

Use the following procedure to load language packs to the Aastra CNX.

Step Action

1 Open your Web browser and enter the URL for your Aastra CNX.

Log in with a valid user ID and password.

2 Click the Maintain CNX tab in the Aastra CNX main window.

Result: The Maintain Aastra CNX window displays.

Announcement

Options

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3 Click .

Result: The following window displays.

4 Select the “Load Language Pack” option and click OK.

Result: The following prompt displays.

Step Action

Page is loading ...

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