[asterisk-dev] Asterisk + MRCP for Speech Resources (TTS / ASR) ?

[Josh McAllister]

I sense from the "short" tone of your response that you feel this to be
off topic here. Is there a better forum for me to start a dialogue about
this? I understand some of the questions could have been answered myself
with enough time spent sifting through code, but does that make the
entire post irrelevant? Is MRCP destined to be completely irrelevant to
asterisk dev discussions? Honestly, I have no desire to start a flame
war, especially not with someone as highly esteemed in the * community
as yourself. But I am truly confused by this reply and the dead end road
it sent this thread down.

Josh McAllister
 

> Josh McAllister wrote:
> > Furthermore there is some work going on over at
> > http://www.speechforge.org/ to provide an OSS MRCP implementation
called
> > Cairo. Cairo is currently capable of wrapping FreeTTS and Sphinx4. I
> > know a lot of work has already been done to integrate LumenVox, but
I do
> > wonder what direction was taken, and if there is any possibility of
> > steering this way?
> 
> 'what direction was taken' is clearly evident from the code... We
> created a generic Speech Recognition API, that understands only high
> level concepts like 'grammars', 'audio' and 'results', and does not
care
> what the format of any of those are.
> 
> > Alternatively, would it be feasible to develop an * <-> MRCP plugin
/
> > middleware using the existing Speech API? It seems like that might
> > bridge the gap for now, and really open the door for users to choose
> > from a variety of ASR software.
> 
> Of course it would be possible.
> 
> > Side question -- I saw that Cepstral is now listed on Digium
Partners
> > page, have I missed the announcement for integrated support, or is
this
> > a hint of something to come? If this has not yet been implemented,
has
> > any thought been given toward implementing via MRCP?
> 
> That is off-topic for this list; questions about commercial products
or
> Digium Partners should be directed to the Digium Sales department :-)
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