[Freeswitch-users] anybody done nuance mrcp?

[Shlomi Hazan]

Hi Yuval,

Thank you very much!
What Nuance engine do you use? ASR? SV? Both?
The thing is, I am looking for affordable ASR and SV engines and I do not like Nuance approach... They behave as what they are: a monopoly.
This is opposed to Tier-1 which can pay and want the best. My application is little and pretty simple.
Regarding MRCP, I find it important even though I can always do the honors myself...
Did you try others as well?

Shlomi

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of UV
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:57 PM
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] anybody done nuance mrcp?

I haven't tried Nuance MRCP interface but I have lot's of experience evaluating the Nuance technology.
Today, Nuance considered being the state-of-the-art in this field and they're OEM'ing it to most tier-1 vendors, most notably: Microsoft and Genesis/Alcatel/Lucent. Most likely any ASR application you'll encounter from a top-tier carrier today is based on Nuance.
I'm particularly familiar with Nuance NLP product and their extensive VXML interface and found it to be most efficient.

I've tested better hardware-based DSP speech verification/authentication engines but it was quite cumbersome to integrate with as opposed to Nuance ease of use.

The CMU sphinx and it's realtime mini-version pocketsphinx are a great initiative and hopefully, as a university backed open source project, it will exceed Nuance strength and usability soon enough.

My 2c worth.

Cheers,
Yuval Hertzog

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From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Shlomi Hazan
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:18 AM
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] anybody done nuance mrcp?

Can you instruct me / point me to instructions on how to use xlite or alike to talk into Nuance ASR via MRCP and see the spoken words on the console?
I don't care about efficiency for the moment, I just want to evaluate Nuance.
BTW
What do you think of their ASR? Other ASRs?

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:01 PM
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] anybody done nuance mrcp?

mod_openmrcp was tested with Nuance along the way.  But you'll need to understand the speech interfaces in FreeSWITCH to use it effectively.

/b

On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Shlomi Hazan wrote:

Does anybody know how to get some softphone (xlite) to talk to nuance and get the text out?

Best Regards,
Shlomi.


Brian West
sip:brian at freeswitch.org




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