[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 16.17.0-rc2 Now Available

2021-03-22 Thread Asterisk Development Team
The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second release candidate of Asterisk 16.17.0. This release candidate is available for immediate download at https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk The release of Asterisk 16.17.0-rc2 resolves several issues reported by the co

[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 18.3.0-rc2 Now Available

2021-03-22 Thread Asterisk Development Team
The Asterisk Development Team would like to announce the second release candidate of Asterisk 18.3.0. This release candidate is available for immediate download at https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk The release of Asterisk 18.3.0-rc2 resolves several issues reported by the comm

[asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Ben Ford
Hello everyone, The Asterisk team has been working on planning better text-to-speech and speech-to-text functionality for Asterisk. We’ll be using a speech service in conjunction with an external application that connects it to Asterisk. More information on the protocol used for this and the overa

Re: [asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Benjamin Fitzgerald
Hi Ben, I'm really excited to see this and wanted to bring up a couple use-cases that we have implemented to see if it's something you think aligns with the goals of the Asterisk implementation. We primarily do real time speech-to-text for calls or conferences however a big limitation with Asteris

Re: [asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Joshua C. Colp
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:37 PM Benjamin Fitzgerald wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I'm really excited to see this and wanted to bring up a couple use-cases > that we have implemented to see if it's something you think aligns with the > goals of the Asterisk implementation. We primarily do real time > speec

Re: [asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Dan Cropp
Thank you Ben. Looking at the TTS, would that language property be language and country? Example en-US, en-GB, etc. Will we use SSML to specify a specific voice for the language? Examplt, Amazon Polly en-US language supports 4 female and 4 male voices. Or might this be an additional paramete

Re: [asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Joshua C. Colp
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:54 PM Dan Cropp wrote: > Thank you Ben. > > > > Looking at the TTS, would that language property be language and country? > Example en-US, en-GB, etc. > > Will we use SSML to specify a specific voice for the language? Examplt, > Amazon Polly en-US language supports 4 fe

Re: [asterisk-dev] Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

2021-03-22 Thread Ben Ford
To build on Josh's response, app_config is essentially the arbitrary data field that can pass all the information you want to the application from Asterisk. We wanted to leave this open-ended intentionally, with the idea in mind that it could be used for other things besides TTS and STT. Will th