$99/port
perpetual license

$15/port
annual maintenance

Asterisk

Vestec is a Premier Partner of Digium, the creator of Asterisk, and offers the best value around for enabling speech recognition with Asterisk.

Salient features of Vestec speech engine include the following:

• $99 per port perpetual engine license
• no minimum ports purchase requirement
• free 1st-year maintenance (ie. patches and upgrades)
• optional $15 per port annual maintenance fee
• higher recognition accuracy than leading competitive engines
• 500 vocabulary items per recognition
• standard SRGS grammar writing format
• American English acoustic model
• scalable architecture for multi-port deployment
• major Asterisk and Linux distributions support

NOTE: The $99 price for one port of Vestec speech engine must not be confused with low-price introductory packages from other vendors. These promotions are highly restrictive, one-time offers and generally do not constitute a full-function speech engine.

The Asterisk connector bridge is included in the price of the speech engine.

We support all major Asterisk releases and Linux distributions, including:

For Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6:

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.x and 5.x (32 and 64 bit)
• CentOS Linux 4.x and 5.x (32 and 64 bit)
• Ubuntu Linux Server 8.04 LTS (32 and 64 bit)
• Debian "stable" 5.02 ("Lenny") (32 and 64 bit)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 (32 and 64 bit)
• OpenSUSE 10.x and 11.x (32 and 64 bit)

Vestec speech engine for Asterisk can be purchased from Digium at:

http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/vestec.php

Vestec product information for Asterisk and Digium Premier Software Partner designation can be viewed at:

http://www.digium.com/en/ecosystem/marketplace/marketplace.php

Tier-1 installation support for Vestec speech engine for Asterisk is available from Digium at:

http://www.digium.com/en/supportcenter/

Tier-2 installation support as well as non-installation support is available from Vestec at: support@evestech.com