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

[El Flynn]

El Flynn wrote:
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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.
>>
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> 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 :)
> 

Ahaha.. ahem.. i think i mean Voxeo instead of Nuance.. sorry, been a while 
since I did the vxml stuff..

flynn