<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Very interesting opinion: I never thought of this "natural language API" extension but it seems quite necessary to me, now.<br><br></div>A quick search over the net showed [2] which is said to support both French and combine with Google Cloud Speech API.<br></div>Sticking to IVR seems far simpler and safe though.<br><div><br>[2] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/?hl=en">https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/?hl=en</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-22 11:21 GMT+02:00 Jonathan H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lardconcepts@gmail.com" target="_blank">lardconcepts@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Having experimented with something similar myself, I'd say you are<br>
about to create a vast amount of complexity by moving away from keypad<br>
entry.<br>
<br>
Also, a lot of the natural language APIs don't support French - for<br>
example, Amazon Lex or <a href="https://dialogflow.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dialogflow.com</a> would be great for this<br>
as they understand contexts and intents... but they don't understand<br>
French.<br>
<br>
But if you pursue ASR, try this:<br>
<a href="https://cloud.google.com/speech/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cloud.google.com/<wbr>speech/</a><br>
Switch the console to French and see how you get on. In English,<br>
sometimes it turns it into a number, sometimes it comes out as "twenty<br>
five thousand two hundred twelve".<br>
<br>
I think you have two choices with ASR:<br>
<br>
1: Explain to the caller that they must say one digit at a time, in<br>
which case, easy! Pick any free speech recognition you want.<br>
2: Try and handle "natural language" ways of speaking numbers, in<br>
which case be prepared for a lot of debugging and learning!<br>
<br>
I could be wrong - if anyone knows, please let us both know, too!<br>
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On 22 October 2017 at 09:46, Olivier <<a href="mailto:oza.4h07@gmail.com">oza.4h07@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm in the early stages of designing an Emergency calling service IVR<br>
> application.<br>
><br>
> The IVR application asks simple one or two questions like "which is the<br>
> postal code of the area you are currently calling from ?" "Is the correct<br>
> ?". The expected values are a 5-digits number like<br>
> "twenty-five-thousand-two-<wbr>hundreds-twelve" or "twenty-five-two-twelve"<br>
> variations or "yes or no".<br>
><br>
> From received answers, this application would route incoming call to an<br>
> appropriate Public Safety Answering Point.<br>
><br>
> As IVR requires working DTMF and sometimes it's not easy to type DTMF with<br>
> wireless phones, I wonder if I should or not use ASR as an alternative to<br>
> IVR.<br>
><br>
> My requirements are:<br>
> - spoken language is France/french<br>
> - low call volume (<5 calls at peak time)<br>
> - asterisk 13 and up support<br>
> - hosted (prefered) or online<br>
> - if hosted, should be installable on Debian (prefered) or CentOS on a<br>
> dedicated VM.<br>
><br>
> 1. What do you think of using ASR for such application ? Would you favor<br>
> IVR, ASR or implement both ?<br>
> 2. Which ASR would you recommend ?<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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