[Asterisk-Users] Will Asterisk do well in this application?

[El Flynn]

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> 
> This is the sort of thing that AGI is great for.  When I was first 
> starting with Asterisk I wrote an AGI script to ask the caller for their 
> Zip Code, then connect to weather.com, download the current weather 
> conditions for that zip code, massage the text, run it thru a text to 
> speech system, then play the resulting audio file to the user.
> 

You could also take the concept and connect it to a third-party VoiceXML 
provider like Nuance. You can host your VoiceXML script(s) in their sandbox 
environment and send a couple of calls over via SIP through FWD. Then you could 
make the Asterisk box look like a sophisticated speechrec-enabled system with a 
reasonably nice-sounding TTS engine to boot :)

Flynn