``Free Speech'' for Asterisk Eliminates Pricing Barriers to Technology Adoption: LumenVox Speech Recognition for Asterisk Open Source and Digium Asterisk Business Edition Now Available.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- 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. "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 An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. , 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 (www.von.com), at 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 See Asterisk PBX and OpenMoko. 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 (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. including consulting, technical support and custom software development services. Used in combination with Digium's PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. , switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include legacy PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). , IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. , auto attendant The part of an interactive voice response (IVR) system that replaces the human operator and directs callers to the appropriate extensions or voice mailboxes. See IVR. , next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Additional information can be found at 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 See Asterisk PBX. , 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 www.LumenVox.com. |
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