Briefly: I want to be able to have "press or say (number)", with Asterisk listening for a spoken number, but accepting a DTMF digit, too.
I'm posting everything I found so far, here, partly to show working, but also in case anyone else finds it useful. So, moving on.... This looked hopeful for a moment until I realised that it doesn't do DTMF: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+15+Application_SpeechBackground So then there's https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+15+Application_Record, which can terminate on any DTMF key with "y", but according to the docs, "RECORD_STATUS" only sets a flag of "DTMF" (A terminating DTMF was received ('#' or '*', depending upon option 't')). So, I don't get to know which key was pressed via that method, either. There's very little information I can find about the built-in functions for speech recognition. https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Speech+Recognition+API doesn't actually explain how to integrate the actual speech engines. In this previous forum post, https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-15-jack-streams-speech-recognition-so-many-questions/72108/2 , jcolp explained that most people don't use the speech interface anyway, because "Asterisk modules are written in C, and it’s more difficult to do things in that fashion. Using the Record and ship it off using Python, etc, is just easier and gets the job done for a lot of people to where they find it acceptable. So, AGI it is! But I'm still stuck on how I record for speech AND get a DTMF if it was dialled. Regarding speech in general, even "Asterisk - The Definitive Guide" just says: "Asterisk does not have speech recognition built in, but there are many third-party speech recognition packages that integrate with Asterisk. Much of that is outside of the scope of this book, as those applications are external to Asterisk" - helpful! The speech-rec mailing list at http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-speech-rec/ hasn't been posted to since 2013 Someone else asked about speech recognition and unimrcp in this post: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2017-February/290875.html uniMCRP https://mojolingo.com/blog/2015/speech-rec-asterisk-get-started/ http://www.unimrcp.org/manuals/html/AsteriskManual.html#_Toc424230605 This has a Google Speech Recogniser plugin, but it's $50 per channel http://www.unimrcp.org/gsr *Reasons to use Lex over Google TTS* • Has just been released in eu-west-1: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=5186 • Supports 8KHz telepony https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=4775 • Is in the core AWS SDK http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/LexRuntime.html • Has a number slot type: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lex/latest/dg/built-in-slot-number.html - this means no accidental recognition of "won", "one" or "juan" instead of 1! The pricing is definitely right: "The cost for 1,000 speech requests would be $4.00, and 1,000 text requests would cost $0.75. From the date you get started with Amazon Lex, you can process up to 10,000 text requests and 5,000 speech requests per month for free for the first year". Amazon Transcribe looks promising too, but is only available for developer invitation at this time: https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/ https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/ But all I need now is the quickest, simplest way to send Lex a short 8KHz file and get a single digit back, as quickly and reliably as possible. Before I travel too far down this road, can someone point me in the right direction and possibly steer me away from the wrong path?! -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: https://community.asterisk.org/ New to Asterisk? Start here: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
