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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Question for developers: what is the asterisk way to integrate with ASR (speech recognition)?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Question to the community: has someone done anything in this direction?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On the first glance that shouldn't be too hard. One part is delivering audio to the engine (for example,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">main ASR players Nuance and Speechworks will be happy with RTP) - can be done via RTP forking.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The other part is stopping the prompt when speech is detected (barge-in implementation). One more</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">thing is adding the related commands to agi.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any comments are welcome.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Alex Zarubin</FONT>
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