Speech Recognition

We have just finished up the interface for our new speech recognition abstraction layer. Using the new API, it is now possible to attach a speech recognizer in the background that can react to particular speech and turn the text into events that are passed to the channel the same way as DTMF and text messages. We wrapped this up in a nice high level interface and made an example IVR that illustrates a pizza ordering system written in pure java-script.

http://www.freeswitch.org/eg/js/asr/pizza_js.html

The best part is we can also operate the speech recognizer at 16khz which vastly improves accuracy. It's even possible to do neat stuff like start a bridged call and have the recognizer still fire back events to your script for on-the-fly voice powered hangup or transfer and other cool ideas.