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Emerging Tech Talk #51 – Review of CounterPath’s Bria SIP softphone for iPhone and iPad

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Have you wanted to use a VoIP softphone from your iPhone or iPad? Sure, Skype is available, but what if you want to use a softphone that works with SIP and can connect to a corporate IP-PBX? In this episode, host Dan York reviews the new Bria softphone for the iPhone that was released this week by CounterPath Corp. He shows how it works, how it can connect to applications running on Voxeo’s Prophecy Hosting or Tropo platforms and offers some other comments about the app.

The Bria app costs $3.99 in the iPhone AppStore. More info can be found at: http://www.counterpath.com/bria-iphone-edition.html

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Emerging Tech Talk #50 – Ringio Launches at eComm – Interview with CEO Sam Aparicio

Monday, April 19th, 2010

What if small businesses could have an easy way to have the same power to engage with customers that large call centers have? How can customers calling into a company avoid “voice mail jail” and get to the right people? Host Dan York interviews Ringio CEO Sam Aparicio about Ringio’s new service launched on April 19, 2010, at the eComm Conference in San Francisco. Sam talks about the problem Ringio is trying to solve, demos the software, shows the mobile version on an Android phone, explains why Ringio uses Voxeo’s platform and then invites people to try out the service at www.ringio.com/

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Emerging Tech Talk #38 – Ted Gilchrist about location-based mashups and Brightkite

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Host Dan York spoke with independent developer Ted Gilchrist about the VnoTed service he created that lets you call in and post location updates to Brightkite, and also have those updates go out to Twitter and Friendfeed.

[UPDATE: Shortly after I uploaded the show, Ted contacted me to let me know that unfortunately VnoTed is not working right now due to the Brightkite API being broken. He has apparently been waiting for Brightkite to fix their API, but has not yet seen any movement. Not to be deterred, Ted is already exploring ways that he might rewrite the VnoTed service to use another location-based service that has a stable API. Stay tuned...]

Beyond the actual function of location-based voice notes, Ted’s service is quite an interesting mashup of services. As he describes in a document, VnoTed uses:

  • Brightkite
  • Google App Engine for web hosting
  • Amazon S3 for storage of voice notes
  • Voxeo’s Tropo.com for the voice interaction
  • Voxeo’s IMified for setting hashtags
  • Google Maps to get the latitude and longitude of a US ZIP code

Ted has also made his VnoTed code open source and posted it to Github. Those interested can download the code and experiment with it directly. More info about Ted and his work can be found on www.vnoted.com or on Twitter at @egilchri.

For those wondering about the background, this video was recorded in the Voxeo booth at SpeechTEK in August 2009 in New York City.

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Emerging Tech Talk #26 – Intro to Tropo.com – eComm 209

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Would you like to develop voice applications in programming languages you already know? In this episode, Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor speaks from the stage of the Emerging Communication Conference (eComm) 2009 in San Francisco, CA, as he announces the launch of Tropo.com – a new way to create voice applications in programming languages like python, ruby, groovy, JavaScript and PHP.

You can learn how to start developing voice applications at www.tropo.com or read more at blogs.voxeo.com/tropo.

NOTES:

  1. The slides that go along with this presentation are embedded below the video.

  2. This presentation was also recorded by the eComm conference and will be made available on the eComm blog over the next months. We’ll updated this blog post when that version is available.

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Emerging Tech Talk #23 – Irv Shapiro of IfByPhone on making voice app development easier

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

At ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami, FL, host Dan York interviewed Irv Shapiro, CEO of IfByPhone ( http://www.ifbyphone.com ) about how his service makes it easy for developers to create voice applications. He talks about three application examples and also three magic ingredients, one of which is Asterisk and one of which is Voxeo’s Prophecy. He also invited developers to sign up for a free developer account at http://www.phonemashup.com/

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Emerging Tech Talk #019 – Jott VoiceMail

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Do you dislike voicemail? What if you could get all of your voicemail messages transcribed into text that could show up in your email? Or via a SMS message to your phone?

In this episode, Dan York demonstrates Jott’s new “Jott VoiceMail” feature (see also this blog post) that can be set up with your mobile phone so that all your calls go to Jott VoiceMail, are transcribed into text and then sent to you via email and/or SMS. The service is available for a free trial at http://www.jott.com/ While there are certainly other services out there that offer this service, the great thing about Jott’s implementation is that it is integrated with all the other voice-driven Jott services such as the ability to leave messages that become Google Calendar entries, reminders, blog posts or Twitter updates.

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Emerging Tech Talk #016 – The Three Pools of Tools for Voice Application Developers

Friday, January 16th, 2009

What are the different types of tools out there for developers of voice/communications applications? What choices do developers have? And where does Voxeo’s recent acquisition of VoiceObjects fit within the range of tools?

In this episode, host Dan York talks about the “three pools of tools” for developers of voice applications and the options that developers have available when considering how to build a voice application.

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Now there are certainly other ways to slice up and categorize the tools out there for developers, and if you have your own or disagree with my categorizations, please do feel free to leave a comment here.

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Emerging Tech Talk #013 – Thomas Howe on Voice Mashups and Voice-enabling Business Processes

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

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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