Can you really build a 2,000-port IVR cluster using commodity low-end netbooks? At the SpeechTEK conference in NY on August 26, 2009, host Dan York spoke with Voxeo’s Jose de Castro about the 20 netbooks in Voxeo’s SpeechTEK booth and what they were doing. Jose spoke about Prophecy 10 and its performance improvements – and then touched on new features being demonstrated in Voxeo’s VoiceObjects software.
You can download or play the podcast here (in Quicktime):
This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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/
You can download or play the podcast here:
Emerging Tech Talk #010 - Voxeo acquires VoiceObjects and brings developers new voice application tools [8:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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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This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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.
Emerging Tech Talk #034 - Jose de Castro on Voxeo's SpeechTEK booth [3:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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.
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