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=head2 Playing Voice Mail Messages under Linux 

Q: How can I play received Voice mail messages under Linux? 

A: WAV files you receive in email compressed with gsm codec. To play
these files under Linux you need to have 'libgsm' installed and some
software build against this lib. 

E.g. You can play them with Audacity. Also there are some plugins for
mplayer and xmms (http://www.mega-nerd.com/xmms_sndfile/) which allows
to play gsm encodded audio. 

It can be also played with simple utility 'play' from 'sox' package: 

dima@ast:~> play msg00001.WAV 

Input File : 'msg00001.WAV' 

Sample Size : 16-bit (2 bytes) 

Sample Encoding: GSM 

Channels : 1 

Sample Rate : 8000 

Time: 00:09.22 [00:00.82] of 00:10.04 ( 91.8%) Output Buffer: 442.17K 

play wav: invalid wav gsm frame size: 1 bytes 

Time: 00:10.04 [00:00.00] of 00:10.04 ( 100.0%) Output Buffer: 481.72K 

Done. 

Installed sox should have gsm format support: 

dima@ast:~> sox 

sox: SoX Version 13.0.0 

.... 

SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al alsa au auto avr
cdda 

cdr cvs cvsd dat dvms fssd gsm hcom ima ircam la lu maud nist nul null
ogg 

ossdsp prc raw s3 sb sf sl smp snd sndt sou sph sunau sw txw u3 u4 ub
ul uw 

vms voc vorbis vox wav wve xa 

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