Vox - Wav Conversation

[Guest Hayley]

We would like to convert Vox files to Wave and vise versa. When we install the freeware we have found, it corrupts the dialogic cards software and stops it from answering is there any other software or suggestions you have to help us ?

[SupportTeam]

This forum is for support of VoiceGuide software only. What software are you using?

 

VoiceGuide can convert with no problems between VOX and WAV internally - although the user does not really need to know about what is happening behind the screens anyway - the Graphical Script designed is all that is needed to specify what VG is to do.

[Guest Darren]

Hello,

 

I just wanted to help some people out here. I scoured the Internet looking for simple command-line tool (no GUI) to convert Dialogic .VOX to a .WAV that could be played via Windows Media Player or other players. I did not want a program that would load a .DLL into Windows Task Manager and potentially crash, too hard to catch problems with this approach and means you should only process files one-at-a-time or risk crashing.

 

I found several and they all have some problems, see list of problems experience.

 

The only one I could find that successfully converted our Dialogic .vox files is called okiadpcm, here is a link:

 

http://www.tranzoa.com/extras/okiadpcm.zip

 

Program was written back in 12/1993 but who cares, it works! It's command line, to convert a .vox file you just type okiadpcm 5442.vox and a file called 5442.wav will be created. The output file is the right amplitude unlike the 2wav.exe that produced files that were "too quiet" for me...I think our .vox files are a bit quiet so maybe it's worth giving 2wav.exe a try with your own files if you don't mind it's slow speed.

 

2wav.exe

http://resource.intel.com/telecom/support/..._soft/tn174.htm

- works but output .wav file is "too quiet", also 10X slower than it should be. Might work if you .vox files are recorded "louder" than ours, but the slow speed is a major drawback. Program is intended to give you ideas to create your own conversion algorithm, not really for an end-user.

 

switch.exe

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

- could not get to work but perhaps it might, eliminated because it loads a .DLL when you execute a command line and it likes to stay in memory and sometimes hangs.

 

tfsoundtransform.exe

- thought this was the solution until I noticed it would not convert about 1/3 of our Dialogic .vox files! Don't know why, they were all recorded the same way! You could try it with your .vox if the other solutions don't work.

 

VFEdit / Audio Toolbox

http://www.vfedit.com/Content/Software/Too...ox/ToolBox.htm)

- heard this is a good program but I don't need to record files professionally, etc. It does have command-line and I'm sure it works since they were/are heavily involved with Dialogic .vox files. Ruled out because it's $395 but if I need to record prompts, etc. I would consider it.

 

Softdiv audioediter.exe / Dexter

http://www.softdivshareware.com/audioeditor.html

- could not find any command-line capabilities.

 

Softdiv audioconverter.exe

http://www.softdivshareware.com/audioconverter.html

- could not find any command-line capabilities.

 

Vox Studio

www.xentec.be

 

-could not get to work but perhaps it might, eliminated because it loads a .DLL when you execute a command line and it likes to stay in memory and sometimes hang.

 

 

Hope this helps someone out, it sure would have saved me about 10 hours!

 

-Darren

[SupportTeam]

When working with "VoiceGuide for Dialogic" there is no need to convert to/from WAV/VOX - VoiceGuide will do all this automatically.

 

When specifying files to be played you can specify either .VOX or .WAV files - VoiceGuide accepts both formats.

[jjkul]

in VOX files there are multiple sound files, how would the individual files get extracted in VG?

[SupportTeam]

VOX files do not allow for "multiple sound files within one file".

 

If you have a sound file like this then strictly speaking it is not a VOX file. It may be a concatenation of VOX files, but is not a VOX file itself...

 

Please post an example of the sound file you refer to and we can better comment on how such file can be used.

[jjkul]

I apologize. I meant VAP files.

[SupportTeam]

Not familiar with what VAP files are.

 

Whatever they are they would need to be converted to VOX or WAV before they can be used with VoiceGuide.

[jjkul]

For your FYI. This is straight form the Contents Page. Envox is the only company i know that uses it. Has its good and bad points.

A VAP file is nothing more than a series of VOX files. In its initial segment, a VAP file contains information about the location of beginnings (starting points) of individual files (speech phrases), as well as their text descriptions, in order to facilitate differentiation between individual phrases

[SupportTeam]

OK, looks like it is a propriety format.

You would need to extract the individual VOX files from within it, and you could then use them with VoiceGuide.