[asterisk-speech-rec] Re: Speech Recognition / 1.4beta3 +LumenVox CRM:00050623

Scott Stingel scott at evtmedia.com
Tue Oct 31 07:04:57 MST 2006


Hi Adam-

I participated in the early Lumenvox-Asterisk beta program and, after 
the little hassles of upgrading Fedora Core, I was able to get 
everything working. I experienced very good results in simply decoding 
the numbers 0-9 and a few command words - the accuracy was impressive. I 
did have problems with accuracy at first, mostly false decoding, but I 
was able to resolve this by cranking the input audio level down a bit as 
I recall. Maybe in your case playing with the levels will help?

regards
Scott Stingel

www.evtmedia.com


Adam Robins wrote:
> I purchased one Lumenvox for Asterisk license for the test lab -- to 
> familiarize myself with it should a client ask if we could do a Speech 
> Rec application.
> After wrestling a week with the install, including changing OS 
> versions and upgrading gcc libraries, I finally got it working.
> Now, I'm getting way less than 50% accuracy on a simple yes/no 
> grammar. I know it is not an Asterisk issue because when I play back 
> the recorded "yes" or "no"
> thru the Speech Tuner, it does not find the phrase in the grammar, 
> even though it is clearly parsed as a "yes" or "no" by the SR engine.
> So, after seeing how little traffic there is on this mailing list, and 
> being quoted support rates by Lumenvox for additional assistance, I 
> have decided to put this
> product away for now. Perhaps if I have an actual production need I'll 
> be willing to pay for support. But for now, back to DTMF-land.
>
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> *From:* asterisk-speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of 
> *Gerd Graumann
> *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2006 9:37 PM
> *To:* Discussing of speech recognition in Asterisk
> *Subject:* RE: [asterisk-speech-rec] Re: Speech Recognition / 1.4beta3 
> +LumenVox CRM:00050623
>
> In regards to the speech recognition related part of your question, a 
> simple Yes/No grammar should provide you with good results.
> We have recently completed a speech engine benchmark test and achieved 
> even without "tuning" a high accuracy rate.
> http://www.lumenvox.com/products/speech_engine/accuracyStudy/
> Please keep in mind, that the published results can be even better, 
> when some tuning is applied to speech applications (i.e. for the name 
> and department test)
> Best Regards,
> Gerd Graumann
> Director of Business Development
> P: 877-977-0707, just say "Gerd"
> F: 858-707-7072
> Gerd at LumenVox.com <mailto:Gerd at LumenVox.com>
> www.lumenvox.com <http://www.lumenvox.com/>
> <http://www.lumenvox.com/>
>
> Tell us what is important to you! Take our product development survey:
> http://www.LumenVox.com/survey/srDevelopment/index.asp 
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> *From:* asterisk-speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of 
> *Craig Lawrence
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:25 AM
> *To:* asterisk-speech-rec at lists.digium.com
> *Subject:* [asterisk-speech-rec] Re: Speech Recognition / 1.4beta3 + 
> LumenVox
>
> Hi All
>
> I sent this question off to KP Fleming in the 1^st instance as I was 
> under the impression that the Speech-Rec list is more technical than 
> commercial.
>
> KPF has suggested that I post and seek the opinions of the community 
> (not a bad idea at all). So here’s a copy of my question:
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Kevin,
>
> Could you advise whether it is too early for commercial implementation 
> of 1.4beta3 and LumenVox?
>
> We have a client who runs a marketing service sending out 500,000 
> faxes a week worldwide. At times the marketing list information 
> includes up to 20% voice answers instead of fax answers.
>
> The client pays 3c per fax and would be happy to pay this for a voice 
> recorded announcement style message (i.e. autodialing to an existing 
> customer list and playing a pre-recorded message).
>
> We can do the autodialing and message announcement however, currently, 
> at the conclusion to the message we would ask the caller to “press 1 
> to continue” and at that point we would connect the customer to an agent.
>
> We’d like to:
>
> - auto detect a fax machine or voice;
>
> - send a fax if fax tone detected;
>
> - if voice detected announce a simple speech recognition option which 
> includes the following“…if you would like to speak to one of our 
> friendly sales staff or hear more about this great offer, just say 
> ‘yes’ now…..”;
>
> Before we allocate our engineers to this task I wanted to check to see 
> if this is not only possible, but whether it would be considered 
> stable enough to be used in production.
>
> Your comments would be appreciated.
>
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>
> Any comments / opinions would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> **Craig Lawrence**
>
> www.mytel.net.au <http://www.mytel.net.au>
>
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