Trevor, I used to sell Nuance when I worked for Fujitsu. When I first came across Angel.com about 12 months ago I knew this was the right way to approach NLVR.
The Nuance costs are unrealistically astronomical mainly due to the 'high touch' consulting fees that are imposed on this kind of rollout. Angel.com being web based and delivered is able to deliver 90% of the solution for 20% of the costs can only be a good thing. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor G. Hammonds Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:46 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Speech Recognition dean collins wrote on Saturday, 12 February 2005 9:16 PM: > Check out www.angel.com For that matter, check out Tellme. 1-800-555-TELL Speaker-independent automatic speech recognition, when implemented properly, is VERY good right now. However, good ASR is usually fairly expensive. Do not confuse desktop speech recognition applications like Dragon Dictate and Via Voice with telco-grade ASR engines like Nuance, SpeechPearl/Speechworks, Loquendo, etc. Tellme has a developer platform that you can use to experiment with VoiceXML, TTS, and ASR. You create the "voice applications" on their website, and can access them via the PSTN or SIP. Check out: http://studio.tellme.com/ I, for one, would love to have the ability to use ASR engines with Asterisk. I think a good start would be a Sphinx/Asterisk integration project. Sincerely, Trevor Hammonds _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
