LumenVox Speech Recognition for Asterisk Open Source and Digium Asterisk
Business Edition Now Available
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- LumenVox, an innovator of speech
recognition technology, announced today that Digium(R) Inc., the
Asterisk(R) company, now offers a fully-enabled Speech Starter Kit included
in the Asterisk Business Edition(TM) at no additional charge. The Speech
Starter Kit is also available to the Asterisk open source community for
only $245.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050510/LATU041LOGO)
"To enable widespread adoption of speech recognition solutions, we had
to think differently. Through innovative collaboration with Digium, users
can now easily develop Asterisk-based speech solutions and proliferate the
market," said Gerd Graumann, director of business development at LumenVox.
"This directly addresses the need for an affordable speech solution for
the Asterisk community, and provides a significant additional benefit for
Asterisk Business Edition customers," said Jim Webster, director of
software technologies at Digium.
This is the first time that Digium has offered a fully integrated
commercial speech recognition technology for Asterisk. To ensure seamless
integration, Digium created a unique connector bridge to the LumenVox
Speech Engine. The Speech Starter Kit includes the connector bridge and one
LumenVox Speech Engine port, and can be deployed directly on any supported
Asterisk server. Asterisk users can purchase the Speech Starter Kit
directly from Digium's website.
Test-drive the LumenVox speech recognition software at the upcoming VON
show in Boston (http://www.von.com), at http://www.LumenVox.com or call 877-977-0707 and
say "Demo."
About Digium
Digium, the Asterisk company, is the original creator and primary
developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform.
Digium provides hardware and software products, including the Asterisk
Business Edition(TM), its professional grade version of Asterisk, to
enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers
a full range of professional services including consulting, technical
support and custom software development services.
Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards,
Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and
data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's
offerings include legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation
gateways, media servers and application servers. Additional information can
be found at http://www.digium.com.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc.,
has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the
world. Currently boasting over 1 million users, Asterisk supports a wide
range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over
traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX,
SIP and H.323. It supports U.S. and European standard signaling types used
in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation
voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, and the Asterisk logo are trademarks
of Digium Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respected owners.
About LumenVox
LumenVox provides full-featured and affordable speech technology
together with a committed focus on excellent customer service. Our
innovative speech recognition technology empowers channel integrators,
developers, and solution providers to design and develop dynamic speech
solutions. LumenVox has gained industry recognition by winning over 20
awards for innovation, technical excellence, and user's choice for our
Speech Engine, Speech Platform, and Speech Tuner. LumenVox can be reached
at (877) 977-0707 or at http://www.LumenVox.com.
SOURCE LumenVox
 back to top
Related links:
http://www.von.com
http://www.digium.com http://www.LumenVox.com
Photo Notes:http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050510/LATU041LOGO
AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
CONTACT:
Laura Kennedy of LumenVox, +1-858-707-0707,
just say "Laura", Laura@LumenVox.com
|
