Speech Enabled

[ruben23]

Hi guys can vicidial be used as IVR to use speech recognition like UniMRCP, have anyone tried this, what the difference with Text to speech TTS.Thanks

[williamconley]

the package to which you refer is designed to work with asterisk. vicidial runs on asterisk. it is safe to assume that it is possible, but may be limited based on the versions of asterisk it will support. next comes ... what do you want to do with all this power?

basically, if you want to use vicidial as the ivr ... it already IS an ivr. if you want vicidial to send requests / information / clients to unimrcp, that depends on how it interacts with asterisk. if it can be controlled and/or communicated with via asterisk agi, then absolutely. and the functions presently in place for Cepstral will likely be fairly easy to convert to another TTS and/or Voice Recognition system.

but it all depends on whether unimrcp will work with asterisk 1.4, or if we have to use asterisk 1.8 (which is presently in Beta for Vicidial, but from what I understand it is coming along quite nicely).

[oshonubi]

Hello,

Asterisk by extension Vicidial works with UniMRCP. The latest version of UniMCRP works with asterisk 1.8. However if you use the latest version of goautodial, you need to install the source code so that when you install UniMRCP-Asterisk Plugin, you can recompile asterisk. Upon the configuration, you can load the load and it starts working. A very good combination is to deploy UniMRCP an ASR tool with Festival as your TTS. That gives you a complete opensource solution.

Have a great time