The below is probably old news to most of you but, just in case you were like me and did now know...
I learned today that Allison (the voice of Asterisk. thevoice.digium.com <http://thevoice.digium.com>) generally charges $12 for a single phrase or $160 for 20 phrases however, when we do batches like this, we get a discount rate of $120 / hour. Now this is recording time only. If we wanted her to edit them as well, there would be additional charges. In comes Rob Fugina (who is actually spearheading this recording run). He takes a couple of weeks to edit them himself, letting us get more phrases with he same donated money. He told me today that we are almost to the 1 hour mark in donations but, since the list is getting so long, he would feel more comfortable if we had a total of about 2 hours.
I don't want to sound like a TV evangelist from the 80's and 90's but if you have it to give, please do. We have operators standing by to accept your donation. All you have to do is PayPal it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Note, this is not me. Rob is the guy doing all the work.)
Let me make up some quick, car dealer, numbers:
I understand that there are thousands of readers subscribed to this list. Lets say half of them are active readers and half of those are using Asterisk seriously. If those 250 people remaining could just donate $.50 each, we would reach our goal.. This will make Asterisk even better and facilitate our retirement to "A Salty Piece of Land" somewhere. (ala a Jimmy Buffett tune or book)
In the words of Fred Bartles (Ed Jaymes was the quiet one): Thank you for your support;
James
PS If you do not know who Bartles and Jaymes were, and you are from the USA...as much as it stings me to say this...ask your parents. (or if you are in a hurry, search tvacres.com or google).
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