[asterisk-dev] Voicemail to text translation

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

ryan brindley wrote:

> I did a project with a friend in high school (6 years ago) that took a 
> sound file and used speech recognition to convert what was said into a 
> text file, from there you could search that (or all) text file(s). We 
> tested with custom-made mp3s and song mp3s (It was being designed as a 
> note-taking system for our college courses). Of course, this was done in 
> a Windows environment and used Sappy, but it's support that your idea is 
> possible.

Were your sound files limited to 8Khz, mono, with the dynamic range of a 
motorcycle?  That is pretty much what you get when sending audio over 
the PSTN.