Whats interesting is that most message are only around 90% accurate, if it would be a human it would be way more accurate upwards to around 97% in my opinion. There are only so many mistakes a human can make, in the case of phonetag I don't think it's humans since there are too many obvious mistakes.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Barry L. Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > C F wrote: >> I have seen lots of companies offering this as a service and have used >> phonetag.com in the past. >> They work very nicely, however I have a customer that is not >> interested in paying $30-$40 a month but would rather buy the >> software. I have googled and googled all I can come up with are >> companies that do it as hosted. >> >> Does anyone on the list know of software that can transcribe an >> email/voicemail sent to it and then forward it to the end user? >> >> TIA > > We've talked about this on the VoIP users conference and the feeling is > that most likely there is a human on the back end who is doing the > transcription, if it is to be at all accurate. Anyone who has worked > with the various speech-to-text software, such as ViaVoice or Dragon, > knows that training is the key to really accurate transcription. That, > and a good quality audio signal. The variations in audio quality you > get in voicemail is probably too great to do this all with software only. > > Barry > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFKuO3KCFu3bIiwtTARAqWbAJwOhC3REHwQphVpXrG+XfGKwq3ccwCfRoO4 > nOv6mEfTV4rQst89YU7/Wpg= > =HpnP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
