SpeechCreate()

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Create a Speech Structure.

Last reviewed 2026-04-14

SpeechCreate(engine_name)
Dialplan Builder -- build your SpeechCreate() command
Full arguments reference
  • engine_name required
Description

This application creates information to be used by all the other applications. It must be called before doing any speech recognition activities such as activating a grammar. It takes the engine name to use as the argument, if not specified the default engine will be used.

Sets the ERROR channel variable to 1 if the engine cannot be used.

Arguments
  • engine_name required
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