It’s been awhile since we posted a status update on the project, so here goes:

• One big focus over the last 5 months has been to clean up and fix various small issues in the 0. series of releases as well as supporting voiceglue users on the forum. We’re now at 0.6, which has been relatively stable. We try to answer all questions on the mailing list within a day or two.
• We’ve also been working on integrating and testing speech recognition functionality. We’ve been making use of Asterisk’s res_speech.so interface, which is the Digium-blessed approach to interfacing with speech engines. Right now we are only aware of support for Lumenvox under this interface which we are using as our test environment (and we should note that they have been helpful and supportive of our effort). As a future project goal we will probably build a Sphinx interface if no-one else is doing so. The res_speech interface was exposed to the AGI via a source-level patch in Asterisk 1.4, but this patch is now rolled into the 1.6 Beta; so we are now working with the 1.6 Beta. Our coding is complete for this effort, and we are in debug.
• We’ve been given a development key for Cepstral, and plan to integrate it as a commercial alternative to Flite.
• We’ve been keeping a list of feature requests, to plan into upcoming releases.

Our goal is to get speech recognition working at which point we will call it a 1.0 version. We will then take our feature request list, poll our user community to get your input, and schedule dot releases.

One last note, I (Steve) will be at Spring VON in San Jose if any voiceglue users would like to get together. Drop me a note.

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