<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Neeraj,<br> <br> Reference your question, we have not launched any
new acoustic models. BUT we recently released a major upgrade to Vestec
speech engine: support of SISR tags in speech grammar. SISR (semantic
interpretation for speech recognition) are a W3C standard to facilitate
interpretation of complex speech recognitions. They enable embedding of
snippets of JavaScript code into SRGS grammars to automatically
transform a speaker’s utterance into a format understandable by an
application.<br> <br> Software "upgrades" are free for the first 12
months following engine purchase. So, anyone who bought the speech
recognition engine recently can download the upgraded version
free-of-charge.<br> <br> Best regards,<br>
-Kashif<div> </div>Kashif Kahn<br>VP, Business Development<br>Vestec, Inc.<br>Waterloo, ON Canada<br>phone: (519) 885-7615<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kashif Kahn <kahn@evestech.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, December 24, 2009 12:29:28 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Vestec Voicerec<br></font><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Neeraj,<br> <br> Reference your question, we have not launched any
new acoustic models. BUT we recently released a major upgrade to Vestec
speech engine: support of SISR tags in speech grammar. SISR (semantic
interpretation for speech recognition) are a W3C standard to facilitate
interpretation of complex speech recognitions. They enable embedding of
snippets of JavaScript code into SRGS grammars to automatically
transform a speaker’s utterance into a format understandable by an
application.<br> <br> Software "upgrades" are free for the first 12
months following engine purchase. So, anyone who bought the speech
recognition engine recently can download the upgraded version
free-of-charge.<br> <br> Best regards,<br>
-Kashif<br><br>Kashif Kahn<br>VP, Business Development<br>Vestec, Inc.<br>Waterloo, ON Canada<br>phone: (519) 885-7615<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Neeraj Chand <Neeraj.Chand@ocis.com.au><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, December 23, 2009 11:26:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Vestec Voicerec<br></font><br>Hi Kashif, <br><br>Has vestec added any new speech models recently?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank"
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(Kashif Kahn)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:45:57 +0000<br>From: David Knell <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dave@3c.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:dave@3c.co.uk">dave@3c.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special<br> $25/port Offer<br>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br> <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:1261507557.18473.48.camel@local.freepabx.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:1261507557.18473.48.camel@local.freepabx.com">1261507557.18473.48.camel@local.freepabx.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Hi Kashif,<br><br>I'd be interested to
give this a try, but we're essentially a FreeSWITCH<br>house. Do you have an API that we
could work to, or do you support<br>MRCP?<br><br>Thanks --<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>> Hello Everyone,<br>> <br>> Vestec is a Premier Partner of Digium and aims to popularize and<br>> commoditize speech recognition with Asterisk through high accuracy,<br>> low-cost, easy-to-use speech engines. <br>> <br>> We recently launched a special promotion called the "starter kit" to<br>> dramatically lower the cost of trying speech recognition or<br>> introducing it to potential clients. For only $25, anyone can purchase<br>> a perpetual license for one-port (ie. one channel) of Vestec's<br>> full-function, full-feature standard edition engine. Our standard<br>> engine is Digium certified, supports industry standards-based grammar<br>> writing, generates 90%+ recognition accuracy without "tuning", allows<br>> 500 vocabulary items per recognition, comes with American English<br>> acoustic model and an Asterisk connector
bridge, provides free<br>> installation support, and is compatible with all major Asterisk<br>> releases and Linux distributions. An Asterisk user can interact with<br>> the speech recognition engine via Dialplan. Numerous speech grammar<br>> writing examples are included with the speech recognition engine as<br>> well.<br>> <br>> The specially priced $25 speech starter kit can be purchased from<br>> Digium at:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php">http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php</a><br>> <br>> Please feel free to contact me for additional information at<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@evestech.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@evestech.com">info@evestech.com</a><br>> <br>> Thanks and regards,<br>> -Kashif<br>> <br>> Kashif Kahn<br>> VP, Business Development<br>> Vestec, Inc.<br>>
Waterloo, ON Canada<br>> phone: (519)
885-7615<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.api-digital.com--">http://www.api-digital.com--</a><br>> <br>> asterisk-biz mailing list<br>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz</a><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:55:55 -0800 (PST)<br>From: Kashif Kahn <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@evestech.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@evestech.com">info@evestech.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special<br> $25/port Offer<br>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br> <<a rel="nofollow"
ymailto="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:88693.39324.qm@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:88693.39324.qm@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com">88693.39324.qm@web206.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hi Dave,<br><br> Reference your question below, the speech<br>recognition engine comes with a full-function API that you can use to<br>integrate with Freeswitch (as well as any other platform of your<br>choice). We are also developing a Freeswitch connector (to save the<br>developer platform integration work) and will releases it<br>free-of-charge in the near future.<br><br>Best regards,<br>-Kashif<br><br><br><br>________________________________<br>From: David Knell <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dave@3c.co.uk" target="_blank"
href="mailto:dave@3c.co.uk">dave@3c.co.uk</a>><br>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 1:45:57 PM<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Speech Recognition Engine; Special $25/port<br>Offer<br><br>Hi Kashif,<br><br>I'd be interested to give this a try, but we're essentially a FreeSWITCH<br>house. Do you have an API that we could work to, or do you support<br>MRCP?<br><br>Thanks --<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>> Hello Everyone,<br>> <br>> Vestec is a Premier Partner of Digium and aims to popularize and<br>> commoditize speech recognition with Asterisk through high accuracy,<br>> low-cost, easy-to-use speech engines. <br>> <br>> We recently launched a special promotion called the "starter kit" to<br>> dramatically
lower the cost of trying speech recognition or<br>> introducing it to potential clients. For only $25, anyone can purchase<br>> a perpetual license
for one-port (ie. one channel) of Vestec's<br>> full-function, full-feature standard edition engine. Our standard<br>> engine is Digium certified, supports industry standards-based grammar<br>> writing, generates 90%+ recognition accuracy without "tuning", allows<br>> 500 vocabulary items per recognition, comes with American English<br>> acoustic model and an Asterisk connector bridge, provides free<br>> installation support, and is compatible with all major Asterisk<br>> releases and Linux distributions. An Asterisk user can interact with<br>> the speech recognition engine via Dialplan. Numerous speech grammar<br>> writing examples are included with the speech recognition engine as<br>> well.<br>> <br>> The specially priced $25 speech starter kit can be purchased from<br>> Digium at:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php">http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php</a><br>> <br>> Please feel free to contact me for additional information at<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@evestech.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@evestech.com">info@evestech.com</a><br>> <br>> Thanks and regards,<br>> -Kashif<br>> <br>> Kashif Kahn<br>> VP, Business Development<br>> Vestec, Inc.<br>> Waterloo, ON Canada<br>> phone: (519) 885-7615<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.api-digital.com--">http://www.api-digital.com--</a><br>> <br>> asterisk-biz mailing list<br>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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