On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, David Backeberg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Duncan Turnbull <dun...@e-simple.co.nz> > wrote: >> Voice recognition is a pain for people with accents and poor lines and when > > Everybody has an accent. Some people live in a place where the people > they talk to sound like themselves, so they forget that fact. > > Of course, this is a huge problem if you, for example, want to have an > English language voice recognition system that works across the > continental United States. Even for people who speak 'correct' or > 'common' English for their region, these systems aren't that great in > my experience. The bigger of a vocabulary you have, the worse trouble > you'll have, because these systems, again, in my experience, only know > synonyms or alternate regional words for the same thing if they were > programmed by somebody who thought of the synonyms / alternate words / > alternate legitimate pronunciations. > > Anybody with an imagination can think of plenty examples, for example, > from the United States: > * soda / pop / soft drink / beverage / drink / Coke / other trademarked names >
Comes down to the designer - most of the systems I am used to using (like American Airlines system, which is quite good IMO) are focused on the basics - digits 0-9, yes/no, "agent", etc. I don't think it is overly difficult to make this work even with varying accents, though UK folks used to saying "double naught" might have issues :) j -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users