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

Scott Stingel scott at evtmedia.com
Tue Oct 31 07:50:30 MST 2006


Dean-

I found that if I hacked at the sample grammars provided, I could get it 
to work quite quickly.  

Speaking of grammar, does anyone else think that "Discussing of speech 
recognition" sounds incorrect for the name of this group?  :-)

regards
Scott Stingel

www.evtmedia.com

Dean Collins wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> I was at Astricon last week and thought about buying the 'test' platform
> for my own personal requirements.
>
> As a non developer though I was unsure I'd ever get it to work.
>
> What I want to know is, even after looking for a while I was unable to
> find a central repository of dial plan integration information.
>
> Is there a location I can cut and paste information from to get
> lumen-vox to work.
>
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Dean
> www.Mexuar.com 
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-
>> speech-rec-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Stingel
>> Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2006 9:05 AM
>> To: Discussing of speech recognition in Asterisk
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-speech-rec] Re: Speech Recognition / 1.4beta3
>> +LumenVoxCRM:00050623
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
>>> *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
>>> <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.
>>>
>>> - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>
>>> Any comments / opinions would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> **Craig Lawrence**
>>>
>>> www.mytel.net.au <http://www.mytel.net.au>
>>>
>>>
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