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As noted on our SpeechTEK 2009 page, our Dr. Dan Burnett gave a talk on August 24, 2009, on the topic of “Optimizing Speech Recognizer Rejection Thresholds“. His slides are now available from our SlideShare account:

Technorati Tags: speech, speechtek, voxeo, conferences, slides, danburnett

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Would you like to catch up with what we announced at SpeechTEK? Want to see some photos of the event or some videos of our booth? Want to know what sessions Voxeo folks spoke at? Or look at the slides from the talks? Want to learn about our very cool SpeechTEK411 multichannel demo?

All that and more is possible from the SpeechTEK 2009 page in our new Events section of the site. You can get there very simply:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/speechtek2009/

You can see links from that page over to our resources page, to a page about the Nugram integration with VoiceObjects, and much more.

From now on, we’re planning to create new pages for each of the events that we will be attending. The pages will serve two purposes:

• Before the event, the page will have information about the sessions we will be at, what we are doing at the show, etc.
• After the event, we will use it as a place to link to presentations we gave at the event, photos we’ve taken, etc.

We’re just starting to build out the section, so we don’t have information up yet about our talks at, for instance, Astricon or eComm Europe…. but we will soon.

Please do let us know what you think of this section. Is there specific information you’d like us to include that we don’t yet? How else can we help you connect with us at events?

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On Monday, August 24th, at SpeechTEK in New York, I (Dan York) gave a talk called “Securing Cloud Telephony” with the abstract:

As voice and self-service applications move increasingly into the cloud and to IP communications, what do you need to be concerned about with regard to the security of hosted solutions? If you grow to trust the cloud, how can you be sure it will be there for you? What protections can you put in place? What backup plans can you establish? What questions should you ask potential hosted/cloud vendors? In this session, security professional Dan York will walk you through the basic risk areas of voice-over-IP security, explain how those relate to both hosted and hybrid configurations and leave you with a concrete list of questions to consider in considering hosted/cloud options.

My slides are now available here:

http://www.slideshare.net/voxeo/speechtek-2009-securing-cloud-telephony-aug2009

Given that SpeechTEK records all the sessions and sells the resulting CD, I doubt that I will be able to publish a recording of the talk. Perhaps at a future time I’ll be able to give a similar talk at conference that allows open recording/distribution… or maybe I’ll just have to do a webinar some time on the topic.

Technorati Tags: speechtek, slides, dan york, security, voip, voipsecurity

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At SpeechTEK this week down in New York City, Rich Tehrani of TMCnet stopped by our booth, pulled out his iPhone 3GS, and asked me to say a few words…. naturally, I did. Rich subsequently blogged about the interview and posted it to his TMC site:

And yes, as Rich indicates, I’ll be out at ITEXPO next week in LA…

Technorati Tags: voxeo, danyork, speechtek, prophecy, itexpo

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Would you like to add SMS and IM interaction to your existing VoiceXML apps? Would you like access to new reports and analytics in Prophecy? This morning here at SpeechTEK 2009 in New York City, we announced Prophecy 10, the latest release of our Prophecy product, which includes all this and more. P10 is a huge release for us in our continued delivery of what we call “Unified Self-Service”, the ability to develop an application once and have users interact with that application via voice, SMS, IM, Twitter, and more. Prophecy 10 includes:

• SMS and IM Integration – Building on our IMified integration, Prophecy 10 allows you to take your existing voice applications and enable them to work with SMS or IM. When you login to our Evolution developer portal and look at the settings for an application, you will see that you can now add SMS and IM to any given application. This same capability has now been added to our Tropo.com cloud service as well.
• Comprehensive analytics – Utilizing the power of VoiceObjects Analyzer we have added 15 analytics reports directly into Prophecy 10, with the ability to access the full range of VoiceObjects Analyzer reports through simply adding the additional software module.
• Dramatic performance improvements – Every third release of Prophecy we take a moment to see what we can do to make it even faster and more powerful than it was before. We’ve done that in spades with P10, delivering the capability to run 100 ports of XML telephony on a very low-end netbook, up to 500 ports on a standard Windows or Linux server and up to 2,000 ports on a single high-end 64-bit server.

The news release goes into the full details and if you are here at SpeechTEK, you can stop by our booth #800 where you can see our demo of 20 Acer netbooks running Prophecy 10 in a 2,000 port cluster. It’s VERY cool stuff…. (and we’re giving away 10 of the netbooks as well!)

The early access release of Prophecy 10 is immediately available for download now for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Users of our hosted Evolution Developer Portal or Tropo.com will also see that they can start adding IM and SMS to existing applications right away.

Technorati Tags: voxeo, speechtek, sms, im, tropo

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SpeechTEK 2009 is only ONE week away… starting Monday, August 24, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown New York City. As I mentioned last week, we have a number of great announcements to make…

Are you still debating about about attending SpeechTEK? Or is SpeechTEK new to you but you are in NYC and want to check it out?

Either way, you can go to the SpeechTEK Registration page and enter the promotional code “VIPVXO” to get either: 1) a free exhibit hall pass; or 2) 50% off the price of other conference passes.

If you are going, please do stop by booth #800 as you head into the Exhibit Hall… great things to show you all! And this year we have some incredible prizes to give away… stay tuned… 7 days and counting…

P.S. If you follow us on Twitter, we’ll be tweeting live from the show about events, activities and prizes.

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SpeechTEK 2009 is only two weeks away… starting Monday, August 24, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown New York City. SpeechTEK has historically been the show where we have made a number of large announcements, and this year is no different… MANY great things to share with you all… we’re rather excited about all the news.

Meanwhile, of course, we have all those final preparations…

Speaking of which, have you thought about attending SpeechTEK but haven’t made up your mind yet? Or is SpeechTEK new to you but you are in NYC and want to check it out?

Either way, you can go to the SpeechTEK Registration page and enter the promotional code “VIPVXO” to get either: 1) a free exhibit hall pass; or 2) 50% off the price of other conference passes.

If you are going, please do stop by booth #800 as you head into the Exhibit Hall… great things to show you all!

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If you are an industry analyst or blogger attending SpeechTEK 2009 from August 24-26 in New York City, you are invited to join us for dinner on Tuesday, August 25. Following a long-standing Voxeo tradition, it will of course be Indian food. Space is limited so please contact Megan Maxwell if you are interested in joining.

P.S. We are also open to including analysts or bloggers living in NYC and covering our industry but not attending SpeechTEK.

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