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Posting Tropo Recordings to Amazon S3 via Heroku

Posted to The Tropo Blog
September 3rd, 2010 by Jason Goecke

Tropo has the ability to record the audio of calls for you using the record method. To get the recordings, you need an application that will accept an HTTP POST or PUT and then store the audio recordings somewhere for you. Just over a year ago we blogged about using Heroku to host the application and then send those files on to Amazon S3. If you want the source code to do this your self, it is available on Github (Read More)

Anonymous Pro and Inconsolata - two free fixed-width fonts for programmers

Posted to Voxeo Developers Corner
September 2nd, 2010 by Dan York

This has absolutely nothing to with "Voxeo" development tools, per se, but I thought it might be of interest to any of you out there who edit code in a text editor.  Adam Kalsey in our Voxeo Labs team recently pointed out this nice font, Anonymous Pro, that is a fixed-width sans-serif font specifically designed for coding: I'm admittedly a sucker for anything related to typography, so I did have to check it out.  It's a set of TrueType fonts for.. (Read More)

Interested in Outbound IVR? Have you checked out our whitepaper?

Posted to Voxeo Talks
September 1st, 2010 by Dan York

Are you interested in "outbound" IVR apps?  Perhaps a notification system for your customers?  Or for your school or team or club?  Would you like to be able to call customers and have them reply back in that call, complete with speech recognition?  If so, check out our whitepaper on "The Ins and Outs of Outbound IVR" available in the right column of this page: http://www.voxeo.com/outboundivr/ The great news is that you can sign up in our Evolution developer portal and try out creating such an app for free! More resources and links can be found at the bottom of that web.. (Read More)

IM usage stats: the decline of AIM

Posted to The Tropo Blog
August 31st, 2010 by Adam Kalsey

Like many early IM users, I was a heavy user of AIM for a very long time. (I also had a 6 digit ICQ number, but the lack of friends on the network led to me abandoning it). The first IM platform I implemented on what eventually became the IM support in Tropo was AIM. AIM holds a special place in my heart. Today's Chart of the Day from Silicon Alley Insider (SAI) is Comscore's metrics on the use of various IM networks. For the venerable AIM, it isn't.. (Read More)

W3C releases 7th Working Draft of VoiceXML 3.0 specification

Posted to Speaking of Standards
August 31st, 2010 by Dan York

As the VoiceXML 3.0 specification makes its way toward release, the W3C Voice Browser Working Group announced today the seventh working draft of the VoiceXML 3.0 specification at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100831/ This newest draft listed only these changes: Revised Legacy profile description to match current thinking. Removed SIV Resource (section 5.4) since it is now covered along with the recognition resource in section 5.3. Update section 4.4 (Event Model) to match our current thinking about DOM events as the underlying model for all flow control Cleaned up text in sections 1, 2, and 5 Per Voxeo's Dan Burnett, co-editor-in-chief.. (Read More)

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