<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Hi David,<br><br>Many thanks for your product patronage and good feedback.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Best regards,<br>-Kashif<div> </div>Kashif Kahn<br>VP, Business Development<br>Vestec, Inc.<br>Waterloo, ON Canada<br>phone: (519) 885-7615<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Cunningham <dcunningham@voisonics.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, December 24, 2009 1:31:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special $25/port Offer<br></font><br>Kashif,<br><br>Do you plan to release a UK English accent version, and if so when?<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Kashif Kahn <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@evestech.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@evestech.com">info@evestech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hello Everyone,<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>The specially priced $25 speech starter kit can be purchased from Digium at:<br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php">http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php</a></span><br>
<br>Please feel free to contact me for additional information at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@evestech.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@evestech.com">info@evestech.com</a><br><br>Thanks and regards,<br>-Kashif<br><font color="#888888"><br>Kashif Kahn<br>
VP, Business Development<br>
Vestec, Inc.<br>Waterloo, ON Canada<br>phone: (519) 885-7615
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