[Asterisk-Users] Integration with external ASR engines

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:18, Alex Zarubin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Question for developers: what is the asterisk way to integrate with
> ASR (speech recognition)?
> Question to the community: has someone done anything in this
> direction?
> 
> On the first glance that shouldn't be too hard. One part is delivering
> audio to the engine (for example,
> main ASR players Nuance and Speechworks will be happy with RTP) - can
> be done via RTP forking.
> The other part is stopping the prompt when speech is detected
> (barge-in implementation). One more
> thing is adding the related commands to agi.

Check out eagi. Eagi is extended to provide audio data to the agi app at
STDERR+1 file handle. There is a example of it in the CVS repository
already of hooking asterisk up to a speech rec system.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>