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How To Convert GSM to WAV and WAV to GSM

To convert from GSM to WAV:

sox input.gsm -r 8000 -c 1 -w -s ouput.wav

To convert from WAV to GSM:

sox input.wav -r 8000 output.gsm resample -q1

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