Voxeo Developers Corner

Did you miss our Developer Jam Session yesterday, Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Support For Twitter, Facebook and More, where I spoke about building applications for social channels such as Twitter?

If so, a recording of the webinar and the slides I used are now available from:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/jamsessions/2010/11/

Additionally, all the source code for the Twitter apps referenced in the presentation is available from Github and can be used with a free Tropo account. Additionally, you can download a free copy of VoiceObjects to try out the integration with IMified to link Twitter to your VO application.

Have fun with it – and we look forward to seeing what kind of Twitter apps you may build!

At SpeechTEK last week in New York, Voxeo’s Dan Burnett was part of a panel session on the topic of “speech mashups.” The session description was:

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM - C101 – Mashups: Integrate Multiple Web Services into Your App - Dan Burnett, Director of Speech Technologies

Learn how speech technologies from recognition to transcription and beyond, now available in the cloud, are being accessed to create multimodal applications. Learn how new licensing models are emerging; novel partnerships are being formed; and the role of vendors, operators, and developers is being redefined. See demonstrations of some new service opportunities made possible with speech mashups. Discover how easy it is to create your own mashups that use speech and how they compare to what you can do with VoiceXML.

Dan talked about mashups and then demonstrated a mashup using Tropo and the Ruby programming language. His slides are available for viewing or download:

Time to clear my bookmarks out. Here’s some stuff you might enjoy.

• Mark Headd has been playing with CouchDB shows how to install it and use it with Tropo. Mark’s detailed instructions on installing CouchDB should be able to help you quickly get this up and running. Not familiar with CouchDB? It’s a database that is accessed over RESTful HTTP and stores its data as JSON.
• Mark also wrote up how to use user agent sniffing to deploy both text and voice apps on Prophecy showing VoiceXML developers how to easily add SMS and IM to their applications.
• Thanks to Silicon Valet, you can manage your Google Calendar from your phone, powered by Tropo. Hear your appointments read to you and create voice notes for later. The creator, Ted Gilchrist is also working on Talk-o-Gram, a platform for exchanging short voice notes with your Gmail contacts.
• Dominique Boucher looks at the rise of API-oriented voice services (including Tropo) in Back to Basics
• Ian Mercer has created the ultimate home automation platform. Detects when someone’s in a part of the house and appropriately adjusts lighting, heat, and more. A web-based management console shows a log of the house activities and allows you to manage the house from your browser. You have to watch the demo to believe it (it uses Silverlight and takes a while to load, but it’s worth the wait.) But what if he forgets to turn off the oven when he leaves the house? He can call it and turn it off. Every appliance is connected to the phone.
• Aslam Bari created the SalesForce Pinger to allow your application to send instant messages to your SalesForce users when certain events are triggered. Alert everyone that a sale just closed or that there’s a new lead available. Install the Pinger package from SalesForce and then add some simple code to your triggers. BotService.sendMessage('We won this opportunity');

Join us for our next technical jam session.

Topic: Tropo Web API – Leveraging the cloud to add real-time communications to your Web Apps

Date: February 24, 2010

Time: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 5pm European

Speakers: Jason Goecke, VP of Innovation, Voxeo Labs

Jose de Castro, Chief Architect, Voxeo Labs

Abstract:

In this developer jam session, we will present the newly released Tropo Web API. Tropo makes it easy for you to quickly add voice, instant messaging (IM), and SMS to your applications, using the programming languages and tools you already know using a web services API and JSON.

We will cover how the API works as well as provide examples of how to use this in your communications with robust speech recognition, text to speech, transcription, conferencing, instant messaging, and SMS to your applications.

Join us for this Jam Session on February 24, 2010

This week Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn spoke out at the JavaOne conference on the topic of “Taking a SIP of Java“. RJ’s slides are now available on SlideShare at:

http://www.slideshare.net/voxeo/javaone-a-sip-of-java-rj-auburn

And the presentation, also embedded below, looks to be a classic RJ kind of talk… fun, lively, interesting… and also with some code. I don’t know if there were any recordings made, but if there were I’ll update the article with a link. Enjoy the talk!

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