After we demonstrated our 16,000 port demo system at SpeechTEK in August as part of our Prophecy 10 announcement, we received a lot of questions about the case we used for the demo system... mostly along the lines of:"Hey, that's a really cool case! Where can I buy one?" The truth is that we built the case ourselves. There is definitely a strong "modding" ethic within Voxeo (of computers, cars, equipment, pretty much anything...) so building this case was right in line with that part of our culture. In this three part blog post series, I'm going to show.. (Read More)
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Photos: The Making of the "Beast Cage", Part 1
Posted to Voxeo TalksSeptember 8th, 2010 by Dan York
Need a South African phone number for Voxeo IVR hosting?
Posted to Voxeo TalksSeptember 8th, 2010 by Dan York
Are you in South Africa and interested learning how Voxeo's IVR hosting can help you grow your business? Or are you trying to reach out into the South African market with your existing business? We're pleased to announce that we are now able to get phone numbers in South Africa for our IVR Hosting platform. We've always had the ability to deploy our Voxeo Prophecy on-premise platform in South Africa (and have some very large customers using it there), but now we're delighted to add the hosting option as.. (Read More)
HOWTO: Working with the Python 3 branch of the Tropo Python Web API library
Posted to The Tropo BlogSeptember 8th, 2010 by Dan York
As we've rolled out the python module for the Tropo WebAPI, one of the questions naturally is - which version of python is this for? Developers who don't work with python may not be aware that the new python version 3.x is deliberately NOT backwards-compatible with python 2.x. There are many reasons and the reality is that python 2.x will be in usage for many years - even as all the new development happens with 3.x. So the quick answer is that the main branch of the python library for the.. (Read More)
Tropo Scripting - now with examples in JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python and Groovy!
Posted to The Tropo BlogSeptember 7th, 2010 by Justin Dupree
Recently we happily announced the creation and inclusion of new Ruby and PHP code samples in our Scripting Guide; this tripled the usefulness of the guide (and pleased a couple of our language fanboys), but in reality even those significant additions were only small pieces of a much larger overall pie. We took a step back, evaluated the situation and set a goal to have all examples in all languages up and available by the start of this week - and we succeeded (Labor Day totally doesn't count). Via a team effort spanning multiple time zones, we not only wrote all.. (Read More)
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) 1.1 Approved by W3C as a Recommendation
Posted to Speaking of StandardsSeptember 7th, 2010 by Dan York
Today we were very pleased to see the W3C announced that Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) version 1.1 was approved as a Recommendation. The specification is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/ SSML is used to control how text is rendered as human-like speech. It includes elements for describing the voice, pitch, speed, and other characteristics of human speech needed to ensure proper output prosody and pronunciation. Requirements for enhancing SSML 1.0 were collected during workshops held in China, Greece, and India. The new SSML 1.1 W3C recommendation enhances SSML 1.0 to provide better.. (Read More)
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