Ok - Gave up on Microsoft - I am just too weak with Python!
But This:
Asterisk voicemail mailcmd script for VM transcription · GitHub
Works perfectly and getting set up with IBM is trivial - and right now they are giving out a $200 credit when you set up a real account (not a free one).
Why isn’t this a standard thing in FreePBX - You could leave the script like it is without any proper credentials, so that it just wouldn’t work unless you had the credentials, but DANG - it works perfectly and the recognition is really spot-on!
This is so cool and really up’s the “Polish” level of FreePBX - Lots of Hosted providers are providing Transcription - now we can too!
Awesome!