[Freeswitch-users] Problems with Mod_openMRCP

Tue Dec 2 07:51:39 PST 2008

If you can get it to break on linux I will ssh in and fix it for you.
If you cannot, i can try to fix it for you over rdp but that won't be very
fun.

We can think about reinstating mod_lumenvox as well as another windows based
asr
alternative.  I deleted it for the same reason we will probably delete
mod_openmrcp because
nobody was using it and there was no way to support it because our dev
licenses had expired.

Lumenvox has offered us some new dev licenses to bring it back but I would
need someone to actually want it to work to put in charge of it.

We will be clear about what is supported and what is not in the 1.0.2
release scheduled
to be released in the near future.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:11 AM, David Knell <dave at 3c.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Anthony,
>
> 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.
>
> I absolutely understand this but it's important, from a user point of view,
> to be able to know which bits of FS are current/supported and which aren't.
>
> 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.
>
> It's useful to know that there are people using mod_openmrcp without issue:
> I did ask here if anyone was a while back, and no-one fessed up.  I'll give
> it a go on a Linux box and report back.  And if you'd like a dev/test
> environment set up, then just tell me which one.
>
> 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)
>
> Those guys who claim to have all that money in an offshore bank account are
> lying - you don't have to reply to them in future ;-)  Seriously, though, I
> don't think it's too outrageous an idea to document what's supported and
> were you (for example) to have suggested that I get in touch with the
> contributors to the various modules, ask them what their view of its status
> is, condense the answers in to a list and report back, it's something I'd
> quite happily do.
>
> 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.
>
> Quite happy to participate in that, too.. the problem is that I've a demo
> to do like yesterday and the timescale for mod_unimrcp is a bit on the long
> side for that.  I'd rather not have to do it with Asterisk and Lumenvox..!
>
> Cheers --
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> 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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