Voxeo Talks

Like the power of VoiceObjects with its multi-channel service capabilities, personalization features, and integrated business reporting & analytics? Fear the overhead of setting up premise equipment to take advantage of this next-generation customer self-service offering? Look no more. Voxeo now offers its flagship service creation, management, and reporting environment as a production-ready On-Demand model as part of the world-wide Voxeo cloud.

In this session, Tobias Goebel will walk you through the steps of setting up a free Evolution account, building your first VoiceObjects call flow in the cloud, and deploying it as a voice and SMS application all with free phone numbers to try it all out. He will also show you some of the reporting that comes out-of-the-box and discuss extensions to get even more out of this powerful offering.

Join us for this session on February 02, 2011: 8:00 AM US Pacific, 11:00 AM US Eastern, 5:00 PM Central European.

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Join us for the upcoming jam session on August 26, 2010.

Stefan Besling will introduce VoiceObjects On-Demand, a key feature of VoiceObjects 10, the new release of the VoiceObjects Application Lifecycle Suite.

Now you can combine the power of the VoiceObjects environment with Voxeo’s proven hosting infrastructure in a seamlessly integrated package.

Develop, deploy, and manage your apps more easily than ever before – and use the new nosted application analytics to monitor traffic and understand caller behavior. Learn more about VoiceObjects On-Demand and download your free developer edition at http://www.voxeo.com/vo-ondemand/.

REGISTER NOW for this session on Thursday, August 26, 2010

8:00 AM Western, 11:00 AM Eastern, 5:00 PM Central European.

Looking forward to welcome you in this session.

Join us for this session, scheduled for July 22, 2010.

In this developer jam session, Tobias Goebel will show you how to use VoiceObjects (Voxeo’s service creation, execution and reporting environment) as the front-end and IMified (Voxeo’s hosted texting platform) as the back-end to deliver self-service over SMS with unmatched ease of development and time to market.

Topic: Providing Self-Service Through SMS Applications

Date: July 22, 2010

Time: 8:00 AM Western, 11:00 AM Eastern, 5:00 PM Central European

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I am delighted to announce that Adam Kalsey has joined Voxeo’s communications team as “Manager, Voxeo Developers Network” to focus on communication with and outreach to our strong developer community. Adam was one of the co-founders of IMified and joined Voxeo as part of the IMified acquisition back in May 2009. (You can even watch Adam on video.)

With a passion not just for coding but also for products and customers, Adam agreed to leave our engineering team and come over “to the dark side” of marketing to help developers more easily build applications on our platforms and to engage in conversations with developers around what they want to see in our platforms. He’ll be actively expanding the amount of information we have online and also speaking at and attending various conferences and events. You can expect to see him blogging here and also over on Voxeo Developers Corner, the IMified blog, the Tropo blog and probably a couple of our other blogs. He also maintains his own blog and is quite active on Twitter as @akalsey.

Over 100,000 developers have created applications on our platforms and more are signing up each day. Adam’s now the point person on my team to help existing developers learn about more they can do with Voxeo platforms, to help the larger developer community learn about how the can rapidly build communications applications on our cloud-based and premise platforms, and to help bring back to our internal teams information about how we can make our platforms even more simple, easy, yet powerful for you all to use for building applications.

Please join me in welcoming Adam… developers, he’s now here for you… you can reach him at:

Email: akalsey@voxeo.com
Skype: akalsey
Twitter: @akalsey
Jabber/XMPP: adam@kalsey.com
AIM: akalsey

While Voxeo holds regular technical Jam Sessions for our VoiceObjects developer community, this month we’re really jamming with a special-edition session on the business advantages of personalization. With personalization, self-service applications can automatically adapt to individual preferences and recent transactions for an improved customer experience, lower costs and untapped revenue opportunities.

Industry veteran and VoiceObjects founder, Michael Codini, will talk about how you can:

• Delight callers with personalization
• Determine if your applications are meeting caller needs
• Learn from customer behavior
• Adapt applications on-the-fly based on customer preferences, recent transactions and more
• Deliver targeted offers
• Leverage investments in business intelligence

The online Jam Session will take place on Tuesday, June 16^th at 11:00 AM EST, 8:00 AM PST, 5:00 PM CEST.  You can register here.

Click here to learn more about our regular, monthly technical Jam Sessions.

AVIOS, which stands for Applied Voice Input/Output Society, kicked off their fourth annual student speech application contest today. Voxeo is a sponsor, along with Cepstral, I6Net, Loquendo and Microsoft.

Cash and equipment totaling more than $1000 is up for grabs by the student programmer teams that best showcase the power of speech recognition and speech synthesis in their applications. Judges are looking for applications that are robust, useful, creative, innovative and user friendly.

Students may build their speech-enabled apps for free using Voxeo’s 100% compliant VoiceXML Prophecy Platform or hosted Evolution Developer Portal.  The developer portal includes extensive documentation, tutorials, sample code and tools such as real-time logging and debugging. Voxeo also provides free 24×7 tech support.

Alternatively, Voxeo welcomes students to go to www.tropo.com to build applications in Groovy, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby.  Check out our Tropo documentation and sample apps or read the Tropo blog for tips and ideas.  Other development platforms are available to students too. See the full list.

High school, college and university students worldwide may participate in the contest. The deadline to register is November 30, 2009 and applications most be submitted by January 15, 2010. Winners will be announced at the Voice Search Conference in San Diego in March 2010.

Are you a student who would like to get started? Download a copy of the AVIOS contest entry form now and learn more about building your application with Voxeo.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new weblog: “Voxeo Developer’s Corner“. In this weblog we will be giving you tips, tricks and tutorials to help you develop applications on our platforms. As you are probably aware, there is a huge amount of information available in the documentation and forums found on our Evolution developer site. What our goal is with this blog site is to point people to some of the nuggets of gold buried within the pages of Evolution. Members of our staff will highlight some of the great tips they have found and other information they think might help you build even better voice applications on our platform.

The blog is off to a great start already with Matt Henry’s initial post, “Certified Tech Tip: Using SISR-formatted grammars with Prophecy 8“, where he demonstrates what SISR-formatted grammars are all about. The post attracted some comments and Matt is already planning a follow-up post. Expect to see more along these lines from Matt and his team in the weeks ahead.

I also kicked off a series on voice mashups and Twitter today with a post “Voice Mashups with Twitter, part 1: Who will win the 2008 SuperBowl? (A mashup in CallXML.) where I show how you can create a voice application that sends its output out to the Twitter micro-blogging service. Over the next few weeks I’ll be adding more articles in that series.

If you are interested in developing voice applications, we do encourage you to check out the “Voxeo Developer’s Corner“. There’s also an RSS feed if you would like to subscribe and stay up-to-date with our posts.

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