----- Original Message ----- From: "Race Vanderdecken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] speech recognition V 2.0
> Greetings David, > > PerlBox would not be usable for the level of service that is needed by > Asterisk to be viable Speech. > > PerlBox is a vocabulary based recognizer, or I as I call it a "grunter", > where you grunt something and it then does something cute. > > Grunters depend on you creating a "vocabulary" list that is different > enough in the syllables so that it can tell cookie from kooky. > > So long as each grunt is different you can get a response from it. > > But a grunter can't do "computer, call my mother-in-law in France using > the PSTN connection". It can do "Mom". If you talk to a computer the way > you talk to a dog you don't get much more then sit, stay and down. > > The problem and the reason such Reco has never gained support is like > all Voice/Speech Activated Dialing engines is that you have to remember > all the vocabulary to use it. > > If you want to call "Robert" you can't say "Bob". > > Grammar based recognition is the only solution. I know because I have > watched several companies' which demanded that they can do it with > grunter, which go out of business because the "Stupid Customers" won't > learn how to use the system correctly. > > Maybe we should refer to the grunter engines as the Neanderthal engines. > Not so much an evolutionary step so much as a evolutionary sidetrack > experiment that went down a dead end. Grammar reco is not descendent > from grunters; it starts further up the tree and is a distinct > evolutionary line. > > As to PerlBox, I give kudos for their efforts for watch they have > accomplished and their efforts are to be applauded for its segment. But > it will not be able to progress into a useful and widely accepted > Asterisk add-on. > > Sphinx and Festival are good projects. The last I worked with sphinx I > was told that it would need modifications to make it more grammar aware, > but that was 2 years ago and things may have improved. If not then > Sphinx people please let me know when you will add grammars natively or > refer me a grammar based engine. > Hi, there are some initial attempts to connect Misterhouse and Sphinx4 to dinamically transfer grammar that is to be recognized. There could be some colaboration here... Regards, Rob. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
