[asterisk-users] Help Voicemail to SMS using asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

Goke Aruna wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I will be glad, if someone can throw light on Voicemail to SMS using
> asterisk.
>
> 1.     I want my users to dial certain number.
>
> 2.      Record a voicemail with destination number.
>
> 3.       Convert this Voicemail to Text.
>
> 4.       Send the text with sms apps.
>
> and I wish i connect my asterisk to smsc directly. Is it possible
> without kannel?
>
> I will be glad, if someone could explain how i can get this done in
> asterisk.
>
> Goksie
>   

That is a tall order (well the speech to text part anyways).  Maybe you 
could (mis)use a TTY service for the deaf.  Other than that, voice 
recognition is not very good (unless I am looking in the wrong places, 
something new has come out, or you want to use some outrageously priced 
solution).  I think the best you can do with what is out there in the 
"free" arena is a very limited vocab like, numbers, letters, yes and 
no.  Text to speech is getting to the decent point.

Thanks,
Steve