Voxeo Developers Corner

By way of a posting to our Facebook Page, I learned of a set of slides from Pavel Růžička, a programmer/analyst with T-Mobile Czech Republic on the topic of converting an existing voice app into a multi-channel app using Voxeo VoiceObjects. In his deck, he walks through why you might want to create a multi-channel application, then dives into some VO screenshots (offering tips along the way) and then concludes with a number of things to think about and some references.

Now, in his particular case, the text channel he is using is USSD, a channel really only available to mobile service providers, but the ideas he presents here are certainly applicable to other text-based channels as well.

Thanks, Pavel, for putting together this slide deck – and thanks for letting us know about it!

Have you ever wanted to compare automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines?  That was the topic of a three-hour tutorial given by Voxeo’s Dan Burnett at SpeechTEK last week in New York. Dan gave a hands-on session as part of “SpeechTEK University” where students received an in-depth lesson in how to compare and evaluate ASR engines.  The session description was:

Dan’s slides are available for viewing and download:

Obviously you need some of the sample files to work through the lab exercises, but the rest of slides do cover what Dan discussed.

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: