Voxeo Talks

UPDATE: In answer to several questions I’ve received, yes, I did record this presentation and will make that available soon. Once I do, I will also link it to the slide presentation so the slides can be viewed in sync with the audio.

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As I mentioned previously (also here), I was at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week up in Portland, Oregon, giving a talk on “Mashing Up Voice and the Web Through Open Source and XML“. It was fun to be back at OSCON for the first time since 2000 when I had been out there as the head of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and was talking then about Linux certification. It was great to see so many people who I knew from back in those days who are still very active in Linux and open source activities.

It was also quite frankly great to be out there not speaking about VoIP security but rather talking about voice mashups and XML! Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy speaking about VoIP security and do it all the time (including next week at ClueCon) but as a speaker it’s sure nice to have some variety. It was also fun for me in this talk to dive down into the weeds and step through code line-by-line, something I haven’t done in quite some time in a presentation (but used to do all the time when teaching training classes).

Another fun aspect of the talk at OSCON was that Evan Prodromou, the founder and main developer of the open source identi.ca microblogging site was sitting there in the audience. Since most all of my demos involved adding voice to identi.ca, he was very interested in what I was showing and we had several great conversations later.

Anyway, my slides are now available through SlideShare, and I’d definitely welcome any comments or feedback on the slide set (either here or over on SlideShare) as I’ll be using some aspects of these slides in other talks:

I’ve received a good number of positive comments and evaluations about the talk and am glad that so many folks found it helpful. The one negative comment I’ve received was that a couple of people were really looking to see how they could add voice to their web interface and all my demos showed how to use a voice interface to interact with web sites. It’s a fair critique. I mention that you could do “click-to-call”, but I didn’t actually show this feature with a demo. I was originally planning to include a demo of putting a conference widget onto a web site, but in the end decided not to include it because I liked the other demos better and only had ~45 minutes for the whole presentation. Another time, though, I’ll probably include such a demo to provide both perspectives. (Meanwhile, I think that’s a great blog post to put up on our Voxeo Developers Corner blog in the next bit.)

Speaking of our Voxeo Developers Corner blog, I’ll also be taking each of my demos and stepping through them section by section in a series of posts over on that blog. Look for those to appear soon.

And, of course, if you’d like to try out any of the demos yourself using the code in my presentation, just head over to our Evolution developer portal and sign up for a free developer account and start creating applications.

P.S. Please do let me know if you do anything cool with linking voice into identi.ca (or Twitter) as it’s a subject I’m rather interested in. You can follow me there on identi.ca at identi.ca/danyork

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