Category: Applications
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Want to learn about Voxeo? About building apps? Attend Voxeo’s Customer Summit June 21-23
Continue Reading: Want to learn about Voxeo? About building apps? Attend Voxeo’s Customer Summit June 21-23Would you like to learn more about Voxeo, this crazy and cool company I work for? Would you like to learn about how you can build communications applications that go beyond voice and let you interact with customers via SMS/text, IM, Twitter, web and video? Would you like to meet Voxeo executives, partners and others in the industry?As I wrote about over on the Voxeo Talks blog, you can do all that and MUCH more at the Voxeo Customer Summit 2010 at the amazing Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando on June 21-23, 2010.
Note that the Summit is for anyone working with Voxeo services… so even if you just have a free developer account over on our Evolution developer portal (or are thinking about getting one), you are welcome to come down to Orlando to join in the fun.
On the Summit agenda, you’ll see that we have:
- Sessions about the future of Voxeo and our roadmap
- Product spotlights highlighting what is new in each of our products
- Business sessions showing you how you can grow your business
- Technical deep dives to help you get the most out of our services
- Feedback sessions where we want to hear…
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Adhearsion open source telephony framework has new source code repository
Continue Reading: Adhearsion open source telephony framework has new source code repositoryI’ve long been a fan of the work that Jay Phillips did to create the Adhearsion open source telephony framework and so I was delighted to read today of news of its future. To give some context, Jay first created Adhearsion a number of years back because he was frustrated with how hard it was to create dial plans with the open source Asterisk PBX. So Jay went off and created a framework where a programmer could use the Ruby programming language to very simply create voice applications.Jay went on to team up with Jason Goecke to further develop Adhearsion and then last year Jay and Jason joined Voxeo (my employer) to create Voxeo Labs out in San Francisco. While Jay has since moved on, Jason continues to move Adhearsion forward and announced today that Adhearsion has a new home on Github … and hinted at much greater plans in store. I’m looking forward to seeing what all they may be…
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Using voice for security and biometrics – all out in the Voxeo cloud
Continue Reading: Using voice for security and biometrics – all out in the Voxeo cloudWhy shouldn’t we be able to use our “voice” as a way to securely authenticate into systems? After all, it’s one of the few “biometrics” that are unique to each of us… along with fingerprints, retina scans, etc. What about accuracy and “replay” attacks? After all, some of us remember “My voice is my password” from back in the movie Sneakers…“Aren’t voice biometrics hard to implement?” … “Are they really secure?”
Today, over on Voxeo’s blogs, we announced a new voice biometrics initiative with four partners designed to answer these questions and show developers exactly how easy it is to add voice biometrics to voice applications. (also called “voice verification” or “voice authentication”, although those are both subsets of the larger “voice biometrics”)
The idea is simple. Build a VoiceXML application in Voxeo’s hosted cloud and then follow the instructions on the “How To” docs linked off of www.voxeo.com/biometrics to add voice biometrics to your application. You can use an existing VoiceXML application or you can create a new one. Code samples are available. (and it’s free to create an account if you don’t already have one.)
The beauty of it is that all of the services are out…
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Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + Ibook
Continue Reading: Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + IbookOver on Skype Journal, Phil Wolf posted about Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo which he gave at Astricon and then apparently just yesterday at eComm Europe. Tim from phonefromhere.com mashes up Google Wave, Skype, Asterisk (with Skype for Asterisk) and Ibook to make Skype calls from within a Wave, complete with recordings of utterances and, naturally, the ability to have an annotated collaboration session in Wave:Phil quotes Jason Goecke (a colleague of mine at Voxeo) describing how it works:
“it is a Google Wave Gadget with his PhoneFromHere.com IAX2 Java softphone as the client. Then, the IAX2 Java phone connects to Asterisk with Skype for Asterisk installed. Then, there is a server-side element, Ibook, that is breaking apart utterances into individual files. So that as each person speaks, it captures it into its own file. Then, as that happens, a text frame is sent from Asterisk to the softphone with the file details. The gadget then uses some Javascript to embed a link. IAX2 supports text frames.”
Read Phil’s full post for more info and for Phil’s views on what this all means.
VERY cool demo!
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I’ll be at VON in Miami on Monday, Sept 21, 2009
Continue Reading: I’ll be at VON in Miami on Monday, Sept 21, 2009If any of you will be down at VON next week in South Beach, Miami, FL, next week, I’ll be part of two presentations on Monday, September 21, 2009. The full abstracts are outlined on a Voxeo events page, but the titles are:10 – 11:15am, Beyond Boxes: The Future of the PBX 11:30 – 12:30pm, The Apps Race: Building a Developer Community in the New Telecom World
The second one should be fun as it’s with my good friend Thomas Howe (who also has a spiffy new website). It’s just Thomas and I and a moderator, talking about developer ecosystems. Good stuff!
I’m only there at VON on Monday. That evening I’ll be driving up to Orlando where I’ll be spending Tuesday through Friday at Voxeo’s corporate office. But if you are down at VON, please do say hello.
P.S. And yes, this is the “new” VON put on by Virgo Publishing after they purchased the VON name and tradeshow from Pulvermedia. It will be interesting to see how it is as a show.
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Rich Tehrani interviews me about Voxeo’s SpeechTEK booth and the 2,000 node cluster built on netbooks
Continue Reading: Rich Tehrani interviews me about Voxeo’s SpeechTEK booth and the 2,000 node cluster built on netbooksAs I mentioned over on one of Voxeo’s blogs, Rich Tehrani pulled out his iPhone 3GS down at SpeechTEK last week in New York and shot a quick video of me talking about Voxeo’s booth and the 20 Acer netbooks we had there running a 2,000+ node telephony cluster. Rich blogged about the interview and posted it in a way that I can embed:If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either subscribing to the RSS feed or following me on Twitter or identi.ca.
Technorati Tags: voxeo, danyork, speechtek, prophecy, itexpo
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FWD launches “SIP to SIP” directory of apps that work with SIP…
Continue Reading: FWD launches “SIP to SIP” directory of apps that work with SIP…If you have a new SIP service or application, how can you find other services to which you can directly connect via SIP? That’s the idea behind the new “SIP to SIP” directory launched by the folks at FWD and now available at www.siptosip.net. From the main page:Why SIP to SIP VoIP?
SIPtoSIP lists applications and content that require SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) enabled devices on both ends of the connection. Realizing the promise of VoIP requires expanding real-time communication options beyond the functions already available with traditional telephones or cell phones. The ability of SIP based VoIP to support HDVoice, video, and click-to-connect requires SIP devices on both ends of the connection. Send suggestions for corrections and additional listings to Daniel Berninger at dan at danielberninger.com.
The directory is very obviously new and only has a few entries on the various pages:
As is noted, Daniel Berninger is looking for people to email him suggestions.
I do applaud the FWD folks for looking at another way to promote the further building of SIP interconnections and so I wish them well with this directory. I’d note, though, that the VoIP-Info.org wiki does already contain a great amount…
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Define “VoIP” – and then we can debate whether it is dead!
Continue Reading: Define “VoIP” – and then we can debate whether it is dead!There is a fundamental problem with the “VoIP is dead” debate continuing to rage across the VoIP/communications part of the blogosphere (see Alec Saunders part 1 and part 2, Jon Arnold, Andy Abramson, Ken Camp, Jeff Pulver part 1 and part 2, Om Malik, Shidan Gouran, Ted Wallingford, Dameon Welch-Abernathy (PhoneBoy), Rich Tehrani and a zillion others…)Aswath Rao and Luca Filigheddu came closest to the mark in their posts. The fundamental problem with this entire debate is simply this:
Define “VoIP”?
As I discussed in an Emerging Tech Talk video podcast I put up this morning, there are a range of definitions you could give to “VoIP”, including, but not limited to, the following:
- The underlying infrastructure, a.k.a. the “plumbing” – the mechanisms, protocols, etc. that are used for the transport of voice/video/etc. over IP. Things like SIP, H.323, RTP, various codecs, etc.
- Consumer “PSTN line replacement” services – Offerings like those of Vonage and so many others where the basic idea is that you can get cheaper telephone charges by going over the Internet and getting rid of your local landline. Also called “pure play” VoIP by some or “VoIP arbitrage” by others.
- Computer-to-computer/softphone offerings, often coming from the…
- The underlying infrastructure, a.k.a. the “plumbing” – the mechanisms, protocols, etc. that are used for the transport of voice/video/etc. over IP. Things like SIP, H.323, RTP, various codecs, etc.
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Jon Arnold interviews me about voice and web services, cloud computing and more
Continue Reading: Jon Arnold interviews me about voice and web services, cloud computing and moreIs the role of “voice” diminished or enhanced by the availability of web services? How does voice fit into the “cloud”? Where do service providers fit into the picture?Out at ITEXPO last month in Los Angeles, industry analyst Jon Arnold asked me (Dan York) to participate in a series of video interviews he was recording for his IPConvergence.TV site. In the interview, which is now available for viewing, we talked about “voice-enabling” business processes, web services, “cloud computing”, the challenges to service providers and customers and much, much more. Jon also asked me to talk a bit about what I see ahead of us in the next few years. It was a fun interview to do and I appreciated the opportunity.
NOTE: There is no way to currently embed the video, so you’ll need to watch it over on TMC’s site. I’ll also note that on my Mac I couldn’t watch the video in Firefox but instead had to use Safari. Now this may be due to some local configuration issue on my system, but I thought I’d mention it.
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