[mythtv] Video Conferencing Plugin

[Matt White]

Henk Poley wrote:
> Op zondag 2 mei 2004 21:02, schreef Eric A. Litman:
> 
>>"Paul Volkaerts" <paul.volkaerts at lineone.net> writes:
>>
>>>- Unanswered calls get routed to a VXML script which uses a
>>>Text-To-Speech engine to either prompt for voicemail or read out the TV
>>>guide and allows recordings to be scheduled using DTMG keys
>>
>>Which TTS engine are you using? Festival? If you're going that far, have
>>you thought of connecting it to Sphinx
>>(http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/) to allow voice control? If you're
>>interested, I can share code with you for tieing Sphinx-2 to SIP streams.
> 
> 
> Hmm, seems rather ambitious. Seems more like a 'if there's time afterwards'.
> 
> As far as I can tell you need to form a system of sentences that the system 
> needs to recognise and learn it to Sphinx using SphinxTrain. Or is that only 
> needed when implementing new languages (aka English is more or less 
> provided)?

I'd love to see a SIP (or IAX2) compliant conference tool for Myth, but
I really think that some of the more complex stuff (like voice rec and
an interface to recording stuff, etc) may be overkill.  Most of the
required capabilities are already implemented in Asterisk (which would
also give you the capability to interface it to a standard phoneline as
well as IP phones).  Asterisk is a bit of overkill for a simple home
phone system, but it doesn't require a lot of resources (it could be
run on your Myth box), and it makes more sense than re-inventing the
wheel...

Asterisk already does voicemail, and has a hook for TTS engines.  It
supports scripting using pretty much any language.  I've actually been
working on a Myth interface to the Asterisk voicemail system in my
spare time, and I've written a very simple AGI script to relay asterisk
callerid info to the Myth notify functionality (mail me if you'd like
it).

Just as an added question - what are you using for a microphone for your
conferencing system?

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