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 _____ From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Shlomi Hazan Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:18 AM To: freeswitch-users@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@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:01 PM To: freeswitch-users@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@freeswitch.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.9/1634 - Release Date: 25/08/2008 20:48

I hope you have also lots of experience in providing co$t effective solutions, since their pricing is very high. -E

How high is high? Numbers? From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of EdPimentl Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:11 PM To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] anybody done nuance mrcp? I hope you have also lots of experience in providing co$t effective solutions, since their pricing is very high. -E

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@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of UV Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:57 PM To: freeswitch-users@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 ________________________________ From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Shlomi Hazan Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:18 AM To: freeswitch-users@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@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:01 PM To: freeswitch-users@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@freeswitch.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.9/1634 - Release Date: 25/08/2008 20:48