voice

What's your Interactive Voice Response Platform?

For those of you working in the voice space, what are you using as your IVR platform? I am using Microsoft Speech Server 2007. What are some equivalent packages? Is anyone using open source software for handling inbound or outbound calls? Note that I'm not just talking about speech recognition, which is one component of a comprehensi...

Voice Recognition Software For Developers

Well the doc's finally said it, I need to take it easy on my wrist for a few months. Being that I'm a .NET Developer this could end my livelihood for a little while, something I'm not anxious to do. That said are there any good handsfree options for developers? Anyone had success using any of the speech recognition software out there?...

How to extract frequency information from an input audio stream (using PortAudio)?

I want to record sound (voice) using PortAudio (PyAudio) and output the corresponding sound wave on the screen. Hopeless as I am, I am unable to extract the frequency information from the audio stream so that I can draw it in Hz/time form. Here's an example code snippet that records and plays recorded audio for five seconds, in case i...

How to record voice in a browser?

I need users to record their voice on a browser and then automatically upload the resulting mp3 to a webserver. I am thinking the user presses a big fat start record/stop record button to do this. This would then save a file on the users hard disk. Then it would be efficiently compressed and automatically ftp'd up to a website. Is it ...

Video and Voice chat operability in Python

Hello! I'm trying to find resources on video and voice chat operability in Python... Does anybody know of some good resources or sample projects? Any help would really be appreciated! ...

VXML getting 'src' for subdialog from variable

Our business is transitioning from an old asp system to a newer ASP.NET system, including massive improvements to our database. There is going to be a period of coexistence, during which old & new will run side-by-side. One app which needs coexistence is a voicemail system we use. It works as follows: User calls. User inputs an acco...

VXML Beep at recording timeout

The VXML application I mentioned in a previous question is now in testing. After allowing the user to record a message (max length 5 minutes) we go into a standard menu (submit, playback, re-record, etc). One of our testers, bored as anything and tired of leaving a 5-minute message was reading an email we had sent, including the phone ...

SMS auto-responses on Android.

First, a non-programming question: My phone is auto-responding to missed calls with a text message: "Sorry. I'm not near my phone right now." Where did my phone get the idea to do that and how do I make it stop? And a programming question: How can I make my Android do arbitrary things in response to a missed call, such as email me th...

Usability: speech recognition versus keypad

We are seeing more and more speech recognition implemented and request for libraries that does good speech recognition. What's the rationale (in term of usability) behind it versus a keyboard or keypad? What reasons would you have to invest in this development? For example, let's take the call centers. A few years ago, almost every call...

"Voice trigger" detection

I have a voice application that would be much-improved if there was the ability to use a "trigger word" to start recording audio. I don't need a full speech-text engine, just the ability to reliably/efficiently detect the trigger word. I am wondering if there are any specialized speech engines that support this specific use case, or any...

Voice Recognition in C++

I'm looking for a way to implement trainable voice recognition in C++. I've found the SAPI 5.3 SDK which looks promising, but the only tutorials that I can find are for TTS which is the opposite of what I want. Can anyone recommend a good tutorial that covers everything I would need to get SAPI up and running? Either that or is the...

Visual Studio voice commands

Hey, you know how Iron man was using voice commands for his IDE in the movie? Are there any visual studio plugins that can do that kind of thing? If not, how do you go about making them yourself? ...

How to record user voice with jQuery?

Save the voice as soundn.wav ...

iPhone/Objective-C - transform voice "live"

hi! so i'm doing a little bit of research/thinking about a project i might do and have run into some questions you guys might be able to help me answer. is it possible in an iphone app (objective-c) to apply effects to a mic-input live. i've seen quite a few applications in appstore allowing you to record a snippet and then apply variou...

Voice recognition in .NET

How to implement voice recognition in .NET? I've got a bunch of .mp3s with computer generated voice of relatively high quality. In each .mp3 the voice says some random text and then a sequence of 6-7 digits in English. I'd like to extract those digits as text. Is it possible to implement such a thing in .NET? ...

dialogic voice box licenses

Our app handles 4 lines on the D/4PCI. That works fine. http://www.dialgroup.com/D4PCI.htm But now we have a requirement to handle 8 lines. The card is supposed to scale to 16 cards per box. But when the 5th line opened, regardless of the order, gives a ‘license count exceeded’ violation. The docs suggest that there is a hardware ke...

Is there any japanese TTS voice to work with C# SpeechSynthesizer

Is there any Japanese voice for C#'s SpeechSynthesizer TTS? If so please state detailed information about it, better if documentation provided. Thanks in advance. ...

Does anyone know any service similar to Tropo?

I have used tropo and pretty happy with the service http://tropo.com/ Does anyone know of a reliable alternative? ...

Vivox and Web Integration

Just curious, anyone attempt to use Vivox voice with a web application? www.vivox.com I know vivox is integrated into Second Life. I was thinking about trying to integrate voice chat into a web based game I'm working on. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the javascript API's. Looks like you have to sign up before they...

java : voice chat and text chat

I want to make a card game made in Java. People can run it on their pc. They can add their friends to their contacts list and when there are 4 players online they can begin a game by one of the players hosting the game. The players can communicate by text or by voice chat Think of it like a chat client that allows users to play a card g...