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May 15, 2009

The City of Getafe selects interactive phone self-services to manage school’s summer activities [Business Case]

Spain, Madrid – May 14th, 2009. Each year, the Getafe Public’s Schools and the “Delegation de Education e Infancia del Ayto de Getafe” conduct their school summer’s activities campaign for the next holidays. I6NET provider of  IVR / IVVR communications components, has developed the phone self-service dedicated to improve the Citizen Attention Service of the City of Getafe. The advanced voice portal implemented allows thousand families to request themselves a meeting to register their children. This IVR solution includes a web service with user-friendly interfaces that allow the City of Getafe’s officers to manage online all calendars and meetings requested. This IVR service is based on I6NET’s PhoneScheduler application template and provides a phone self-service where all families can call to schedule their meeting without spending less than 2 minutes and without waiting in a queue, using voice identification, DTMF, SMS […]
May 10, 2009

VXI* VoiceXML browser 4.1rc coming soon…

VXI* 4.1 will be a new important step for the evolution of our VoiceXML browser for Asterisk. This new release will be published very soon and will start to be implemented for new IVR / IVVR production platforms. Stable 4.0 release steel updated for voice services and current video features. Some updates of this new release are: Video 3G stack for VXI* improvements New VXI* addons management and configuration New Transcoder engine for Video over IP ZMS -Flash-to-SIP integration for VXI* Text-to-Speech (TTS) connector improved (Acapela configuration updated) Speech-Recognition (ASR) improved for video and hand-free mode Text-to-Video (TTV) new update New Outbound API (option) Code improvements and bugs corrections
May 6, 2009

I6NET sponsors AVIOS 2009-2010 fourth annual Student Speech Application Contest

Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Today the Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) announced their fourth annual student speech application contest sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, and Voxeo. Applications must involve speech input and/or output, but may be pure speech or multimodal. Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly. The contest encourages students to develop applications using speech technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text to speech synthesis and to combine them with other modalities. This year, students may use any of a variety of platforms including AT&T Speech Mashups, Cepstral VoiceForge TTS service, CMU’s RavenClaw/Olympus, Google Android, I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser, Loquendo VoxNauta Platform, Lumenvox Speech Platform, Opera, Voxeo Prophecy, and Voxeo Tropo. Students anywhere in the world can submit their creative and innovative applications to be judged by […]
May 5, 2009

VXI* IVVR VoiceXML demo service using 3G videocalling with Hand Free Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition with dynamic grammars are very easy to manage with VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk, this demo shows how easy it is to code a simple VoiceXML script to develop a small video interactive portal for 3G wireless networks. This video service is coded with only one XML script and manage both TTS and ASR. The Speech Engine technologies available for our VXI* VoiceXML browser are ready to work in hand free mode. Of course, possibilities of this kind of services over VXI* are endless… We let you imagine the next generation of speech recognition self-services with 3G real-time videocalling … The only one script VoiceXML source code of this demo is: <?xml version="1.0"?> <vxml version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml" xml:lang="en-US"> <property value="15s" name= "termtimeout" /> <property value="dtmf voice" name= "inputmodes" /> <form id = "service"> <field name="country"> <audio src="video/service.3gp"/> <option dtmf="1" value="france">France</option> <option dtmf="2" […]
April 30, 2009

What is Video IVR / IVVR challenge?

Thanks to Christoph Köpernick’s from www.ivvr.de blog, we are very please to reference his point of view about the video IVR / IVVR challenge today for telecom’s services evolution: from person-to-person to person-to-application 3G video telephony. Interactive voice and video response (IVVR) is a mobile technology that enables interactive services based on a 3G video call. IVVR is using the 3G video call technology to deliver applications and services to 3G users. In contrast to person-to-person video telephony, an application server answers when a 3G user places a video call. The application server generates and transmits an audio and video stream that is shown on the handset of the caller. Instead of a real person or scene, the application server can transmit any kind of audio and video—whether a pre-recorded “talking head”, movie trailer, a live feed from TV, or […]
April 29, 2009

I6NET and Orizom partners to provide 3G videocall solutions with smart Image Recognition

Madrid/Sevilla – Spain, April 27th, 2009 – I6NET provider of 3G/IP IVR / IVVR VoiceXML communications components and Orizom / VisualCentury an innovative company that provide advanced image recognition and multimedia products, have chosen to create together new value added mobile services. The Feelterz software from Orizom / VisualCentury is a high performance Image Recognition engine that allows to find and link products with information in a matter of seconds. Using this software with an interactive video VoiceXML service allows to manage new possibilities of business. An example of a 3G videocall service powered by VXI* and Feelterz is a tourism monuments or places information phone number to provide text, voice or video information about different city’s places. You just make a simple videocall with your 3G mobile phone and this video self-service will recognize automatically the monument in front of […]
April 26, 2009

Talking about 3G Video Telephony and Security at Brussels

Thank you to all who attended the 2009 3G Connectivity conference! Last Friday, was a  fantastic Spring’s day at Brussels to talk with experts about 3G video telephony and security. Over the course of the next few days, participants will receive PDF presentations of all the keynotes from speakers. Interoperability for 3G wireless network was shown in this conference, partners companies will make soon new announcements about it. Stay tuned at www.3gconnectivity.com  and our website / blog. Thank you to Guy Romanus from iWatel for the organization as well  all our sponsors whose generous support made this event possible: iWatel International Wave and Telecommunications i6net Solutions and Tecnologies Seris Security ACIC, Intelligent Vision Systems Voxbone, The Inbound Operator
April 20, 2009

3G FACTORY™ and I6NET unveils their common video calling solutions

France – Spain, April 20th, 2009 – I6NET provider of 3G/IP IVR / IVVR VoiceXML communications components and 3G FACTORY™, the innovative french company that leads 3G video applications market, have successfully integrated their solution. The VXI* VoiceXML browser gives the ability to rapidly develop and deploy innovative voice and video applications via IP, PSTN, and 3G-324M networks. VXI* is fully compliant with the W3C’s VoiceXML 2.0+ specification and is integrated with automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech software to enable advanced voice and video solutions, and real-time video calling applications. The 3G FACTORY VISIODIOTEL™ service, which made it possible to launch interactive video services such as friendship sites, information portals, video blogs, image transmission sites, distance voting, tourist information services, etc. now comes complete with solutions for automatic payment, such as Credit Cards, SMS+, Scratch Card, etc. After two successful years, […]
April 16, 2009

Only a week until next 3G Connectivity event at Brussels!

Join us at 3G Connectivity conference, Videocalling & Security Services Evolution 3G Connectivity | Brussels (Belgium), April 24 2009 With the global rollout of high bandwidth 3G networks, and value added video telephony services rapidly taking centre stage, it will become critical to have a reliable video delivery platform in place to support the complex video transmission to enable processes across different types of networks (Wireless Mobile & IP).  This event is an excellent opportunity to introduce the latest advance platforms and toolkit sharing technical complexities of mobile video. It offers you a leg-up to produce compelling and profitable applications enabling the deloyment of new video-based services. Event objectives: Encourage innovation within the 3G communications Facilitate business between local and foreign businesses Help local companies to import and export visions, concepts, technologies… Present innovative visions, trends, forecasts from of 3G […]
April 14, 2009

How to make videocalls between a web page and a 3G mobile phone?

3G Videocalls from a mobile phone to a web enabled flash softphone using VXI* IVVR platform for Asterisk PBX Everybody has dreamt to make videocalls as easy as possible without any specific software installation at both sides. From a standard 3G mobile phone’s videocall to a web enabled flash application opened inside an web browser. This is now possible, opening new communication opportunities for people and businesses. Some important elements of this configuration is the ability to manage the videocall between this two worlds, 3G telecom network and IP with Flash technology using VoiceXML interactivity as a bridge with Asterisk. All integrations are now available with newest VXI* 4.1rc IVVR solution. Some examples: Web enabled video call centers agents Online videocall assistance for websites Online videocall services Videocall 3G mobile phone from any webpage having flash… Now, possibilities are endless…