[asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special $25/port Offer

[Kashif Kahn]

Hi David,

Many thanks for your product patronage and good feedback.

Reference
your question, we are working on an acoustic model for UK English and
will likely release it within the next several months. Please note that
acoustic models are language AND accent specific. Our speech engine
currently comes with an American English acoustic model. That is, the
model has been developed primarily for native American and Canadian
English speakers. Non-native (ie non-American and non-Canadian) English
speakers can also use the American English model but will generally
need to add custom pronunciation to take account of their specific
accents. As a general rule, the greater the difference in pronunciation
- due to a speaker's accent - from the base acoustic model, the greater
the speech application developer need for adding custom pronunciation.
The advantage of a UK English acoustic model will be that you would be
able to experience high recognition accuracy with native British
accents with default speech engine pronunciations.

Finally,
note that Vestec treats new acoustic models as a software "upgrade". As
long as the buyer has purchased engine maintenance for the year in
which a new upgrade is released - engine software maintenance is free
for the first 12 months after purchase and thereafter costs $15 per
port per year - he can download the latest acoustic model(s)
free-of-charge.

Best regards,
-Kashif
 Kashif Kahn
VP, Business Development
Vestec, Inc.
Waterloo, ON Canada
phone: (519) 885-7615




________________________________
From: David Cunningham <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thu, December 24, 2009 1:31:37 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special $25/port Offer

Kashif,

Do you plan to release a UK English accent version, and if so when?

I have been evaluating the product and found it very good so far, aside from a bit of recognition difficulty which may be accent related.

Thanks,


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Kashif Kahn <info at evestech.com> wrote:

>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Vestec is a Premier Partner of Digium and aims
>to popularize and commoditize speech recognition with Asterisk through
>high accuracy, low-cost, easy-to-use speech engines. 
>
>We
>recently launched a special promotion called the "starter kit" to
>dramatically lower the cost of trying speech recognition or introducing
>it to potential clients. For only $25, anyone can purchase a perpetual
>license for one-port (ie. one channel) of Vestec's full-function,
>full-feature standard edition engine. Our standard engine is Digium
>certified, supports industry standards-based grammar writing, generates
>90%+ recognition accuracy without "tuning", allows 500 vocabulary items
>per recognition, comes with American English acoustic model and an
>Asterisk connector bridge, provides free installation support, and is
>compatible with all major Asterisk releases and Linux distributions. An
>Asterisk user can interact with the speech recognition engine via
>Dialplan. Numerous speech grammar writing examples are included with
>the speech recognition engine as well.
>
>The  specially priced $25 speech starter kit can be purchased from Digium at:
>http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php
>
>Please feel free to contact me for additional information at info at evestech.com
>
>Thanks and regards,
>-Kashif
>
>Kashif Kahn
>>VP, Business Development
>>Vestec, Inc.
>Waterloo, ON Canada
>phone: (519) 885-7615
>
>_______________________________________________
>>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--
>
>>asterisk-biz mailing list
>>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>>   http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
>


-- 
David Cunningham
Voisonics
IVR development, VOIP consultancy
http://voisonics.com/
US toll-free: +1 888 842 2720
UK: +44 (0) 20 3411 5024
Australia: +61 (0) 2 9037 2180
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-biz/attachments/20091224/5477456f/attachment.htm