[asterisk-users] Opensource Speech recognition for Asterisk

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Jason Aarons (US) wrote:

> I'm not aware of an open source speech product.
>
> Some great examples where speech recognition works well are 
> 1-800-USA-RAIL, Microsoft/Cisco corporate directory 425-882-8080 you can 
> say the employees name and be connected and those works great, 
> 1-800-Goog-411 also works well.  Windows 7 Speech Recognition, Dragon 
> Natually Speaking work pretty good. Vonage does a good enough job of 
> sending my home voicemails to my email in Speech to Text, I use this app 
> daily, rarely having to listen to actual voicemails.  What Speech-Text 
> doesn't convey is anger/happiness, etc.
>
>

Great story from a friend in a large unnamed corporation - an upper level 
mgr named "Jack Smith" got a call from a very angry customer.  He did his 
best to help him and in the end asked how he got transferred directly. 
The man said "the system asked me who I wanted to speak to and I said 
'JACK ASS'" and I got you!

j