Yes, I have followed your history with this idea/project with great interest. I am well aware of what went down.
What I want to know is what specifically you meant by, "however there are limitations but for 90% of applications will work great." What limitations? What 10% of applications will it not work great? Thanks, Steve Dean Collins wrote: > Basically I tried to pitch the concept of an ASP based speech > recognition SIP service to Tellme back in 2005 as a JV in that they > provided the software and ports and I (eg investors) provided the > servers and bandwidth. > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/tellme > > In 2006 they came out with a JV with Skype doing exactly this (it went > no where). > > Now that Tellme have been acquired by Microsoft there is no way they > will bring this about. > > What I was trying to achieve is the ability for any Asterisk server to > have access to an immensely scalable Speech recognition engine (think > Amazon EC2 but this was before this service was available). > > Anyone would be able to write an application and 'pre-pay' for a block > of minutes for as little as $10 and then when a call comes in to your > asterisk server via voip or tdm on your premises it could be routed via > the internet using sip off to the central cpu servers for speech-rec > processing but the minutes would only accrue while they were connected, > once the call was 'rerouted' to it's destination the charges wouldn't be > incurred (eg you might only use 30 seconds at a time). > > So far I haven't found a speech rec vendor interested in setting this up > - they continue to complain that the asterisk market is too small. > > > > > Regards, > > Dean Collins > Cognation Pty Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1-212-203-4357 Ph > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro >> Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2007 11:26 AM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] LumenVox Speech Recognition >> >> Dean, >> >> Don't be so modest, you have done your homework... ;-) >> >> Question: Can you elaborate on this a little more, "however there are >> limitations but for 90% of applications will work great." >> >> Thanks, >> Steve >> >> >> _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
