What is a “voice mashup”? How do they work? How can “mashup” tools help developers more quickly build voice applications? What is meant by “voice-enabling business processes”?

In this episode, Dan York discusses these questions with Thomas Howe, CEO of The Thomas Howe Company and frequent speaker/writer about voice mashups, building voice applications and where the communications industry in general is headed.

This interview was recorded in August 2008 at the ClueCon conference in Chicago, IL, USA.

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What is your personal plan for communication during a natural disaster? (such as the ice storm that hit northern New England last week) If the regular telephone communications infrastructure is not available, how could you call people outside your area? How could you receive calls? Where can VoIP play a role in this?

In this episode, Dan York talks about these issues and his own ways of reaching out to people and having people hopefully reach him.

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P.S. Is it me or is the audio just slightly out-of-sync with the video?

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What is Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2PSIP) all about? Who would use it? Is it really just an attempt to make an open standards Skype? What standards are being created?

All those questions and more were discussed when host Dan York caught up with David Bryan, co-chair of the IETF P2PSIP Working Group, out at the IETF 73 meeting in November 2008 in Minneapolis, MN. More information about P2PSIP can be found at http://www.p2psip.org/

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This interview with David Bryan was recorded at the IETF 73 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 20, 2008.

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Today, Voxeo is extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of VoiceObjects, the world’s leading provider of self-service application development and analytics solutions. With this acquisition, developers have a whole new suite of tools available to very simply and easily create complex and advanced voice applications.

In this show, Dan York speaks with Michael Codini, co-founder and CTO of VoiceObjects, about what this acquisition means, what VoiceObjects is all about and what is next for the software. More information about VoiceObjects can be found at http://www.voiceobjects.com/ and a free developer version can be found at http://developers.voiceobjects.com/

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This interview with Michael Codini was recorded using ScreenFlow screen capture software with Michael coming in via Skype video. Because I have already been asked via Twitter about how I am doing this, I have included some production notes at the bottom of this post.

For more information about what the VoiceObjects acquisition means for voice application developers, please read this post over on our Voxeo Developer’s Corner blog.

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PRODUCTION NOTES: Before this show has even been published, I’ve had a couple of queries based on Twitter updates asking about what I am doing to produce this show. So here is what I did – along with my major mistake.

To capture the video I used ScreenFlow which allows me to capture both my screen and also the video coming from my MacBook Pro’s built-in camera. I called Michael via Skype, we set up the video conversation and spoke for a few minutes to get ready for recording.

Then, and this was a key step, I stopped transmitting video over Skype to Michael. I could then see him but he couldn’t see me. I did this for two reasons: 1) it was the only way I could get rid of my own video preview window in the Skype video window; and 2) I wanted to record my own video locally via ScreenFlow to get higher resolution video.

I launched ScreenFlow, recorded the conversation, and then did some post-production editing in ScreenFlow to size my video the same size as Michael’s, fade out my video and bring it back in at the end, make some edits, etc. I then exported the video into a Quicktime file.

I then brought that movie file into iMovie where I added the titles, credits, text overlays, etc. Finally I exported the resulting movie out of iMovie into an MP4 file and uploaded that to our blog site and also to YouTube.

MY BIG MISTAKE – As you listen to Michael speak, he sounds like he’s in a bit of a cave or speaking over a speaker phone. Now, granted, he’s just speaking into his PC on his end without a headset or mic, but I made a more fundamental error. When you configure a recording session with ScreenFlow, you have the options shown in the image to the right, the last of which I failed to turn on.

So yes, indeed, the audio you are hearing from Michael is coming out of the speakers on my MacBook Pro and going back into the internal microphone. Ugh. Now had I realized this when we were recording I could have naturally just gone back and re-recorded the session. Unfortunately I only caught it when I started doing post-production and at that point Michael was already gone and off in his next appointments. I tried to do what I could in post-production to bring his audio up and may still try to do something else later today once the news is out.

In any event, this is how I produced this video podcast and I intend to be doing more like this in the future (although very definitely with the computer audio being recorded!).

If you have more questions about how I produced the show, please do feel free to leave them here or contact me via email.

We are delighted to let you all know that Emerging Tech Talk is now available in iTunes! If you follow this link, you should wind up at a screen like this in iTunes where you can click the “Subscribe” button and have these episodes automatically downloaded to your local copy of iTunes:

If you search on “Voxeo” in iTunes, you should also wind up being able to get to this show.

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We look forward to bringing you more exciting episodes in the weeks and months ahead!

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What is XMPP all about? Who is using it? What is it’s future? And why was Peter St. Andre, Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation up at the 73rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last month (Nov 2008) in Minneapolis, MN? In this show, host Dan York caught up with Peter in a hotel hallway and asked him to discuss these and other questions.

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This interview with Peter St. Andre was recorded at the IETF 73 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 19, 2008.

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