[asterisk-users] LumenVox Speech Recognition http://www.cognation.net/asterisk/Tellme/index.htm

[Steve Totaro]

Yes, I have followed your history with this idea/project with great 
interest.  I am well aware of what went down. 

What I want to know is what specifically you meant by, "however there 
are limitations but for 90% of applications will work great."  What 
limitations?  What 10% of applications will it not work great?

Thanks,
Steve

Dean Collins wrote:
> Basically I tried to pitch the concept of an ASP based speech
> recognition SIP service  to Tellme back in 2005 as a JV in that they
> provided the software and ports and I (eg investors) provided the
> servers and bandwidth.
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/tellme 
>
> In 2006 they came out with a JV with Skype doing exactly this (it went
> no where).
>
> Now that Tellme have been acquired by Microsoft there is no way they
> will bring this about.
>
> What I was trying to achieve is the ability for any Asterisk server to
> have access to an immensely scalable Speech recognition engine (think
> Amazon EC2 but this was before this service was available).
>
> Anyone would be able to write an application and 'pre-pay' for a block
> of minutes for as little as $10 and then when a call comes in to your
> asterisk server via voip or tdm on your premises it could be routed via
> the internet using sip off to the central cpu servers for speech-rec
> processing but the minutes would only accrue while they were connected,
> once the call was 'rerouted' to it's destination the charges wouldn't be
> incurred (eg you might only use 30 seconds at a time).
>
> So far I haven't found a speech rec vendor interested in setting this up
> - they continue to complain that the asterisk market is too small.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean at cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
>> Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2007 11:26 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] LumenVox Speech Recognition
>>
>> Dean,
>>
>> Don't be so modest, you have done your homework... ;-)
>>
>> Question:  Can you elaborate on this a little more, "however there are
>> limitations but for 90% of applications will work great."
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>