Appendix B
Enhanced Alert Tones
Use the information in this appendix to create and configure alert tones that meet the requirements of
your organization.
Enhanced Alert Tones Overview
The Enhanced Alert Tones feature increases the number of the alert tones that you can use with the
dispatch console. It also provides increased flexibility in using the alert tones as it makes it possible to
replace the predefined and unconfigurable alert tones provided by Motorola with alert tones that you
can customize according to your needs.
Before the introduction of Enhanced Alert Tones, the dispatch console supported three distinct,
predefined, and unconfigurable alert tones. They were available based on the console configuration
parameters in Provisioning Manager or Configuration Manager application, and based on the dispatch
console position setup in the Elite Admin application.
With Enhanced Alert Tones, you can use up to 15 console alert tones. With the initial installation of the
dispatch console software that supports Enhanced Alert Tones, 15 predefined enhanced alert tones
are installed in a predetermined location on the console client.
You can override the default enhanced alert tones by creating customized enhanced alert tones with
an audio file processing software application. The custom files must meet the required audio file
specifications and the file location and naming conventions.
Enhanced Alert Tones Audio File Specifications
Enhanced Alert Tones make it possible to create custom alert tones. You can create new audio files or
customize the predefined alert tones provided by Motorola. However, all the files must meet some
requirements.
General Specifications
If an enhanced alert tone file does not meet the required criteria, the dispatcher fails to play the tone
and instead an error notification appears in the status line of the Elite application. Your customized
enhanced alert tone files must meet the following requirements:
•
The file has .wav extension
• The audio is sampled at 8 ksps
• The audio is mono (single channel)
• The audio samples are 16-bit Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
• The audio is longer than 20 milliseconds but shorter than five minutes
The .wav file should have an average level of -28 dBov to achieve the desired system output level of
-22 dBm0.
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