restamp
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Hi. I'm new to this forum (and thanks to whoever approved me this morning). I came across this website while researching what options I had for throwing together a simple IVR which accepts and acts on spoken commands without any need for DTMF. Essentially, I'd like to bypass the brain-dead hands-free system in my car by placing all outgoing calls through a special number which will allow me to speak the name or number of the called party and place the call from there. I intend to run the engine for this on a VPS. Ward's tutorial on Asterisk speech recognition intrigued me: It seemed that by combining PAIF Asterisk with the Google Speech Recognition service, I'd have everything I'd need to perform this task. Price is significant: Although there are turnkey (more or less) systems out there which purport to have this functionality, they are intended for much larger implementations and priced accordingly. This is more of a hobby for me, so I'd like to do it on the cheap.
Can anyone comment on whether this is even viable, and whether there are any major gotchas involved? How much effort it would take to do this? Is there a simpler solution I haven't come across yet? Are VPSes capable of providing the responsivity required for passing VoIP traffic?
Myself: Although I'm more familiar with the Debian side of the house, I've run CentOS 5 and 6 VPSes for years, so I know the basics. By following the directions Mango posted to a forum I was involved with years ago I set up a small Asterisk server on an arm-based Pogoplug here at the house and use it to this day for doing the XMPP protocol for my original Google Voice line (although it's simpler just to use an OBi device to do this today).
If you all think this is a viable and not too time-consuming project, I'll acquire a VPS and give it a shot. As a test, I tried loading PAIF on a VM running CentOS here locally, and frankly, I ran into several problems. But before delving into those, I'd like to have some confidence from the experts that such an implementation would actually be feasible and work well enough to be worth giving it a shot.
Thanks,
Rob
Can anyone comment on whether this is even viable, and whether there are any major gotchas involved? How much effort it would take to do this? Is there a simpler solution I haven't come across yet? Are VPSes capable of providing the responsivity required for passing VoIP traffic?
Myself: Although I'm more familiar with the Debian side of the house, I've run CentOS 5 and 6 VPSes for years, so I know the basics. By following the directions Mango posted to a forum I was involved with years ago I set up a small Asterisk server on an arm-based Pogoplug here at the house and use it to this day for doing the XMPP protocol for my original Google Voice line (although it's simpler just to use an OBi device to do this today).
If you all think this is a viable and not too time-consuming project, I'll acquire a VPS and give it a shot. As a test, I tried loading PAIF on a VM running CentOS here locally, and frankly, I ran into several problems. But before delving into those, I'd like to have some confidence from the experts that such an implementation would actually be feasible and work well enough to be worth giving it a shot.
Thanks,
Rob