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Introduction

This document describes configuration notes for the LumenVox ASR and TTS servers running with Voxeo Prophecy version 13. You should already have downloaded, installed, licensed and tested the LumenVox ASR and TTS server.

Voxeo Prophecy Installation Notes

LumenVox Installation Notes

This document was written for LumenVox 12.2.100, though it should apply for any post-10.0 release of LumenVox.




LumenVox Configuration

There are a few changes from the default configuration that must be made to the media_server.conf located in C:\Program Files\Lumenvox\config\ in Windows and  /etc/lumenvox/ in Linux.

  • The value of mrcp_server_ip must be set to the IP address of the machine that LumenVox Media Server is installed on.
  • The value of sip_port must be changed from the default 5060 to 0 to disable the SIP interface.  LumenVox ASR and TTS servers communicate with Prophecy via MRCP.


NOTE:  For LumenVox version 12.1 and above, there is a new configuration setting "num_channels" that specify the maximum number of channels to be used on the server without exceeding the available licenses.  It is important that this "num_channels" is set correctly to allow the Media Server to automatically scale resource usage for the specified number of channels.  The default value for "num_channels" is 200.
 



 LumenVox - ASR

Here is an overview on how to configure LumenVox ASR server for Prophecy.

The following details are based on the Prophecy documentation - Configuring LumenVox ASR 10 for Prophecy and How to add a Third Party TTS Language to Prophecy. Additional notes and comments were added by LumenVox as appropriate from our own configuration and testing.

  • Create and Add the LumenVox ASR server to Voxeo Prophecy Community.
  • Add the LumenVox ASR Service to Prophecy.
  • Add the LumenVox ASR Service to a Resource on the Virtual Platform to make the LumenVox ASR service available to applications.

To Create and Add LumenVox ASR server to Voxeo Prophecy Community


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > New Server.  The New Server pane is displayed.

  •  In the Name field, enter a name to use in Prophecy to reference the ASR server, for example, LumenVox ASR Server.
  • In the Host IP field, enter the IP address of the LumenVox ASR server, for example 172.16.2.110.
  • In the Site field, select the Site that the server will belong to if you have multiple sites.  Otherwise, select Default.
  • In the Available Groups pane, select the Groups to add this server to.
  • Click Save.



 Adding LumenVox ASR Service to Prophecy Server


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > Select the name of your LumenVox ASR Server. The Edit Server pane is displayed.
  • On the Configuration tab > Services pane > Add. The Add Service dialog is displayed...


  • Expand ASR, expand LumenVox ASR (v10), select the ASR Service to add, for example: US English, then click OK.



  • In the Edit Server pane, click Save. The Success message is displayed and the Service is added.

Note:  By default, the Prophecy Server > LumenVox ASR (v10) is configured for port 554.  The following procedure described how to modify the port if your application requires it (for example, if you had changed the default port to something other than 554 in the LumenVox Media Server configuration for some reason).
 
  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers.  The  Server pane is displayed.
  • Select the LumenVox ASR (v10) Server.  The Edit Server page is displayed.
  • On the Configuration tab > Services pane, expand LumenVox ASR (v10), click the ASR Service to modify, for example, US English.
  • In the Settings pane, in the Port field, enter the port for the ASR Service.
  • In the Edit Server pane, click Save.  The Success message is displayed and the Service is added.


 


 

 Adding LumenVox ASR Service to a Resource on the Virtual Platform


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > Virtual Platforms List. The Virtual Platform List page is displayed.
  • Click the Virtual Platform Name that you want to add the new Resource to, for example, Default. The Edit Virtual Platform pane is displayed.
  • Click New to open the Create New Resource dialog...



  • Select ASR from the Service Role drop-down list and enter the name of the resource to be used in your application, for example, EN-US-LV. Note that the -LV suffix in the name here is important to distinguish the LumenVox ASR from the built-in ASR, which already uses EN-US without the suffix. Again, this is only used as a reference - requests sent to LumenVox will use EN-US (or whichever other language you have selected) without the -LV suffix.
  • Click New to open the New Group Service Priority dialog.


  • Select the Group that contains the LumenVox ASR Service from the drop-down list, for example, Default.
  • Select the LumenVox ASR Service and enter for the Group Service Priority to make it the highest priority for the group.


  • Click OK to save the Service to the Resource.
  • In the Create New Resource dialog, click OK to Save the new ASR resource.
  • In the Edit Virtual Platform pane, click Save to save the Resource.


  • Restart all Prophecy Services.

 


 

LumenVox - TTS

 Here is an overview on how to configure LumenVox TTS server for Prophecy.

  • Create and Add the LumenVox TTS server to Voxeo Prophecy Community.
  • Create a new LumenVox TTS service. Note that Prophecy 14 already knows about LumenVox TTS services, allowing you to select the appropriate option from the list, but Prophecy 13, does not know about LumenVox TTS, so we are creating a generic TTS service to communicate with LumenVox TTS.
  • Add the LumenVox TTS Service to Prophecy.
  • Add the LumenVox TTS Service to a Resource on the Virtual Platform to make the LumenVox TTS service available to an applications.


Note:  LumenVox ASR and TTS service can be configured as a single server entity in Prophecy or as two separate server entities in Prophecy.  If the LumenVox ASR and TTS service are configured as two separate server entity in Prophecy then each server must have a unique Host IP address.
 


To Create and Add LumenVox TTS server to Voxeo Prophecy Community


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > New Server.  The New Server pane is displayed...


  • In the Name field, enter a name to use in Prophecy to reference the TTS server, for example, LumenVox TTS Server.
  • In the Host IP field, enter the IP address of the LumenVox TTS server, for example 172.16.2.110.
  • In the Site field, select the Site that the server will belong to if you have multiple sites.  Otherwise, select Default.
  • In the Available Groups pane, select the Groups to add this server to.
  • Click Save.



 To Create a New LumenVox TTS Service to Prophecy Server


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > Select the name of your LumenVox TTS Server. The Edit Server pane is displayed.
  • On the Configuration tab > Services pane > Add. The Add Service dialog is displayed. 


  • Click New.  The New Service dialog is displayed.


  • In the Name field, enter a name for the TTS service, for example, LumenVox TTS.
  • In the Module drop-down menu, select MRCP TTS (v1.0). Note that in Prophecy 13, there is no LumenVox TTS selection available, so we are selecting this generic MRCP v1 module here, which works just as well.


  • In the Default Port field, enter 554.
  • In the Voice Name field, enter the voice that you are licensed to use, for example, American English (Chris).
  • In the Speech Language field, enter the name of the language used in an application, for example, en-us.


  • Click OK.

Adding LumenVox TTS Service to Prophecy Server


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > Select the name of your LumenVox TTS Server. The Edit Server pane is displayed.
  • On the Configuration tab > Services pane > Add. The Add Service dialog is displayed.


  • Expand TTS, expand MRCP TTS (v1.0), select the LumenVox TTS service, then click OK.


  • In the Edit Server pane, click SaveThe Success message is displayed and the Service is added.

Adding LumenVox TTS Service to a Resource on the Virtual Platform


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Servers > Virtual Platforms List. The Virtual Platform List page is displayed.
  • Click the Virtual Platform Name that you want to add the new Resource to, for example, Default. The Edit Virtual Platform pane is displayed.
  • Click New to open the Create New Resource dialog.


  • Select TTS from the Service Role drop-down list and enter the name of the resource to used in your application, for example, EN-US-LV. Again, this -LV suffix in the name is merely to distinguish the new LumenVox resource from the built in TTS resource which is likely using EN-US. When requests are sent to LumenVox, the language specified will be en-US without the suffix.
  • Click New to open the New Group Service Priority dialog.


  • Select the Group that contains the LumenVox TTS Service from the drop-down list, for example, Default.
  • Select the MRCP TTS 1.0 - LumenVox TTS Service and enter for the Group Service Priority to make it the highest priority for the group.


  • Click OK to save the Service to the Resource.
  • In the Create New Resource dialog, click OK to Save the new TTS resource.
  • In the Edit Virtual Platform pane, click Save to save the Resource.


  • Restart all Prophecy Services.

 

 Testing the LumenVox ASR  and TTS – Application


Voxeo Prophecy has several built-in sample XML applications that can be used to test the LumenVox ASR and TTS functionality using Voxeo Prophecy SIP phone .  In this example, we will configure the VXML Home application to use the LumenVox ASR and TTS services.

  •  Use your favorite text editor to edit the /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/vxml-home.xml file and add the following line to specify the language attribute for LumenVox ASR and TTS


<vxml version="2.1" xml:lang="EN-US-LV">


  • Prophecy Commander toolbar > Dashboard > Select the Prophecy SIP Phone.  
  • Enter the SIP URI of the VXML Home application using the following format sip:Address@IP address, for example sip:vxml@172.16.2.110
  • Click Dial.

If everything is working as expected, you should hear the following prompt " Welcome to the Prophecy voice XML service....".  Otherwise, check to see that the xml:lang attribute (in this example EN-US-LV) is the same as the  Resource Name that you added to the Virtual Platforms List.  In addition, check the application log file  (/opt/voxeo/prophecy/logs/vxml/vxml.log) for any error messages.


Note: In order to test the reservation demo using the LumenVox ASR and TTS service, you will also need to define thexml:lang="EN-US-LV" attribute in the following files:

  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/Times.xml
  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/reserve.vxml
  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/options_voice.xml
  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/intro.vxml
  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/hours.vxml
  • /opt/voxeo/prophecy/webapps/www/demo/vxml/res/check.vxml