[asterisk-speech-rec] Voice recognition dialtone?

[Steve Prior]

I was thinking today about devices that could be used conveniently in a 
home automation setting.  Using a phone has a lot of advantages, but I 
wouldn't want to have to pick up a phone and speed-dial the recognition 
system to control something.  Then I started thinking that if when you 
picked up a phone in the house that instead of just getting a regular 
dialtone, you got a voice greeting and at the point you could either 
speak a command, or ignore the voice prompt and dial normally.

Has anyone else thought about this at all or gotten anything to work? 
One thing that I think would be desirable is to accomplish this in such 
a way that changes to the regular dialplan processing are minimal so 
that you could continue to use tools like FreePBX to configure call 
handling for normally dialed calls, but once a voice command was 
recognized the normal dialplan processing could be escaped completely 
(in my case the call could be taken over by a voice driven app written 
in Java).

Any thoughts?


Steve