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[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:47, Eric Wieling wrote:
> jeff quade wrote:
> > Howdie:
> > Thought Id just post to see if anyone has had any success with 
> > integrating CMUs SPHINX into Asterisk?
> > I see the EAGI in the source/build, and a couple of posts to 
> > Asterisk-Users, but no useable info.
> > Seems like a DEAD issue, waiting for a re-visit.
> > Before I pull the code apart and struggle with deciphering the source-- 
> > I thought someone might have pointers or suggestions.
> 
> Someone, I don't remember who, on IRC #Asterisk got it working, but only 
> with ULAW/ALAW codec.  Apparently the sound quality on the compressed 
> codec was not quite good enough for Sphinx.  I don't know if he ever 
> resolved the problem.  I imagine you could tune Sphinx to work better 
> with compressed codecs.

I doubt it would work with any of the lossy formats. As I remember,
Sphinx wants audio of better than telephone quality, but can work
passable on telephone lines. Luckily EAGI hands off AST_FORMAT_SLINEAR
audio so that you don't have to care what the connection is.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>