[Freeswitch-users] Problems with Mod_openMRCP

[Michael Collins]

FYI,
I've updated the wiki to reflect the current status of OpenMRCP with a link
to the new UniMRCP project. Hopefully enough people who want MRCP in FS will
support UniMRCP...
-MC

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Anthony Minessale <
anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:

> mod_openmrcp was a contribution to the community by a 3rd party individual.
>
> As i have clearly stated in 2 previous emails, the man has decided to
> discontinue the openmrcp project.
> So now we are left with the remains of the module and discontinued code.
> This was not our decision it was his.
>
> Since the author of openmrcp has stated that he has a new unimrcp we are
> certainly going to
> work towards getting mod_unimrcp to replace mod_openmrcp.  He had already
> commented on that previous thread to state he is willing to consider making
> a new module.
>
> Some people use it without issue which may mean that the crash you reported
> is windows specific and I do not have a working lab of any mrcp capbable
> system to try it against in unix for that matter.  I have a list of work to
> do from here to the moon and back so on an issue like this, unless someone
> can hand me login credentials to some box and give me a phone number to dial
> to reporduce the issue, it will be a long time until we can deal with it.
> And the question arises, should we bother working on it anymore if the lib
> has been abandoned and we cannot even get any support from it's author which
> is where the problem most likely lies.
>
> I try not to get too annoyed by these remarks about what we *ought to do*
> because I know people lose sight of how much of the work to support the
> project is done by a small group of 3 people and not the 2000 people it
> appears to be from the outside looking in. (I've been answering email for 4
> hours now)
>
> My suggestion is to pool some cash and pay the guy to make mod_unimrcp for
> FS that we can maintain in tree knowing the development can be supported by
> the original author.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM, David Knell <dave at 3c.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Mike,
>>
>> My experience is that it's somewhat broken - it took two trivial tweaks to
>> get it to work with IBM's ASR and TTS, but there's a more intractable
>> problem to do with memory getting overwritten (I assume that this is
>> something to do with something being freed when it shouldn't be) which
>> causes a segfault on the second or third session after the module being
>> loaded.
>>
>> Without wishing to sound like a stuck record, one thing that you guys
>> really ought to do is to decide what's supported and what isn't, and make
>> this obvious - for example, move unsupported modules to a different place in
>> the tree, don't have them built by default, etc.  MRCP is in the specsheet
>> on the Wiki.  Otherwise folk like Mark and I spend time installing stuff, go
>> round in circles a bit trying to make it work, and then find out (a) that it
>> doesn't and (b) it's not going to be fixed because it's not supported.
>>
>> Cheers --
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> I would not say it is totally broken, it is known to work in quite a few
>> places, but we are unlikely to be doing any new fixes in it.
>>  Mike
>>
>>  On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:19 PM, mszlazak at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Anthony,
>>
>> Oh! OK.
>>
>> So is this module "totally broken".
>>
>> I say this because I can't seem to get it to work at all with the example
>> in that Mod_openmrcp wiki page but I thought it might because I'm not be
>> using the right Cepstral software (freetrial download versus the paided for
>> SDK) or that I'm not using the right port numbers or something else I didn't
>> do. I used TcpView to look at local port associated with my Cepstral
>> software and changed a few things but still nothing. I changed the loglevel
>> setting to 7 in the wiki's example but I don't see the kind of output on the
>> console that I would expect for debug mode.
>>
>> Thanks. Mark.
>>
>>
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