Phonebot

Phonebot

Make phone calls from within a Slack channel

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Violeta Nedkova
Hmm, so Slack is trying to be more like Skype? All right...
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
@v4violetta Slack bought Screenhero right? That + call abilities would make it killer
Dennis van der Vliet
Cool, any data on the success rate of the speech-to-text?
James Thomas
@dennisvdvliet At the moment, the IBM Watson APIs for Speech to Text are in "beta" and don't support personalisation training. I was impressed that it works well without any training. When they launch training, you should be able to get very accurate results.
Nicolas Grenié
@thomasj @dennisvdvliet Did you check APIs like https://wit.ai/ ?
Tom Moor
Interesting idea! Wouldn't the other end mostly likely hang up in the time it takes the speech recognition to work and you to type a response? :)
James Thomas
@tommoor Speech translation lag is the main issue at the moment with Phonebot. It's a neat demo but would need a better real-time translation engine to be usable in the real world. It would also be better if Twilio exposed the real-time audio stream through their API.
Jack Smith
More details and how to get it set-up here
Nick Zieber
The concept is great. Implementation seems clunky, though this could be exciting.
James Thomas
@nzieber I did add an option to turn off those status messages recently. Phonebot is quieter but the speech translation lag can be a bit annoying without any indication we're waiting for the translation.
Elizabeth M.
The idea has potential. Individuals with speech impairments, could benefit from this type of service. Good job.