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February 22, 2011

Flash applications remote-controlled by a phone call

To create amazing services that provide significant value added you have to break barriers. Today’s example shows how you can connect two very different technology environments, a Flash application and a Telephony service. Have you ever think about it before? It’s something you can do thanks to our ultimate Xtras* Flash/RTMP server channel for VXI* over Asterisk. This RTMP channel is a small Flash server which can connect a phone number through VoiceXML to a Flash applet. For example, a user can call with his own phone to move a paddle using the keypad of a Pong video game coded in Flash. No specific telephony developments are required. There’s hundred of business opportunities that could require to connect a Flash service and Telephony to get feedback from consumers. What for: Interactive Outdoor Advertising Dynamic Marketing (video, flash, TV displays, shopping […]
February 17, 2011

New Ringback tone function through VoiceXML is coming soon with VXI* 6.0

A ringback tone is an audible indication that is heard on the telephone line by the caller while the phone they called is still in use. It is normally a repeated tone, designed to assure the calling party that the called party’s line is ringing, although the ring-back tone may be a song or now any dynamic voice content. The ultimate VXI* VoiceXML browser 6.0 is able to execute a VoiceXML session during ringback tone for your phone services. Now you can provide information or get caller ID during all ringback tone with or without call pikup. You can also create personalized contents for each caller. Beneficts: Caller ID detection Duration, according to your carrier (arround 30s … 60s) Text-to-Speech or pre-recorded contents Easy to configure with VXML accounts Callback services (thru VoiceXML) No costs for callers! Requirements: Asterisk 1.4 […]
December 8, 2010

VXI* adds MRCP support to connect your VoiceXML Speech Recognition Applications over Asterisk

Since latest 5.X releases, all VXI* platforms can add a new Xtras* MRCP Client interface to run any VoiceXML Standard Speech Recognition Application over Asterisk VXI* The VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk includes for free a new Xtras* Extension for UniMRCP project. UniMRCP is the open source cross-platform MRCP project, which provides everything required for the implementation and deployment of both an MRCP client and an MRCP server. UniMRCP encapsulates SIP/MRCPv2, RTSP, SDP and RTP/RTCP stacks and provides integrators with an MRCP v1 and v2 user level API. We are pleased to announce the VXI* / UniMRCP interoperability to easily create advanced multimedia VoiceXML applications over Asterisk. The uniMRCP Client interface allows now to connect your favorite Speech Recognition Engines from big vendors using their own MRCP server without any additional cost. MRCP/ASR Servers for VXI*: Loquendo Lumenvox Nuance Vestec Telisma […]
August 20, 2010

How to send SMS Text Messages using VoiceXML

Many IVR phone services require to send users a SMS Text Message for a reminder note, ticket or any appointement information… VoiceXML is an open standard XML language so you can work with any kind of HTTP gateway interface with PHP, JSP, ASP,… and you can easily modify this example according to your carrier parameters and own service requirements. Our example, is using a JSP script from any SMS provider: Parameters: Request: extern:http  URL http://<your gateway IP>/…/sendsms.jsp User: Your User’s Account Password: Your User’s Password To: Destination Phone Number (country code + PSTN number) From: Sender Phone Number Type: Text Message type digit, MMS, SMS,… Msg: Content for your Text Message Wapurl: If you need to include a WAP URL VoiceXML Code: That’s it! You now have a working SMS script in its simplest form.
August 12, 2010

User Experience in a Telephone Application Using VoiceXML

Very interesting article about VUI Design from Daniel Mecanovic and Hao Shi – School of Computer Science and Mathematics Victoria University, Australia. Voice User Interface (VUI) design is an integral part of developing any VoiceXML telephone application just like a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is very important when designing a visual application. In this PDF document, a series of experiments are conducted in order to understand user experience, improve the initial VUI design and provide valuable information for your future VUI development with VoiceXML. Download: [download id=”42″ format=”1″ autop=”false”] Source: Voice User Interface Design in a Telephone Application Using VoiceXML
June 2, 2010

New VXI* VoiceXML browser 5.0 released!

The final VXI* VoiceXML browser 5.0  ref. 2010-05-21 32bit and 64bit is now released. This new release is suitable for production platforms running with all lastest Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 kernels (both Asterisk’s packages are available for download too). Like our previous release, VXI* 5.0 has been built to run over Asterisk EC2 or Xen virtual servers. Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date on our progress or check out our lasts builds. You can download these new binary packages from this website for registered users. Powered by I6NET Software New features added and modifications: mod: Add force Flash/RTMP for the future RTMP channel. mod: Correction to avoid the crash when the object http don’t get parameters. mod: Correction to use h324m with Asterisk 1.6. add: Support audiofetch attribut. add: Cache manager to purge automatically the TTS cache. […]
May 21, 2010

Our VoiceXML Links demos are now available on Skype

You can test all our VoiceXML demos from anywhere using Skype ID: i6net.com Our PSTN number (+34 911 140 670)  steel available too. You can select all our demos codes at : http://links.i6net.com More information: http://www.i6net.com/support/demos/
May 11, 2010

I6NET and Orecx partner to offer IVR over Voice Recording solutions to Asterisk platform

Madrid, Spain and Chicago, USA. May 10, 2010 — I6NET, a company specializing in sophisticated VoiceXML browsers for speech applications, and Orecx, a company specializing in voice recording, announced a partnership today for integration of their products for the Asterisk telephony platform. The combination of I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser and Oreka Voice Recorder significantly improve the value proposition of implementing sophisticated solutions with Asterisk. VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk provides the ability to rapidly develop and deploy innovative VoiceXML-controlled voice and video applications in VoIP, PSTN, and 3G-324M networks. VXI* is fully compliant with W3C VoiceXML 2.0 and some 2.1 specifications, and can easily integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems to enable advanced IVR/IVVR applications, voice and video communications, and real-time video calling applications. VXI* interpreter is pluggable into standard Digium Asterisk PBX releases. The solution is […]
May 10, 2010

I6NET and Vestec partner to bring a high-quality, low-cost VoiceXML browser and speech recognition engine solution to Asterisk platform

Madrid, Spain and Waterloo, Canada (PRWEB) May 7, 2010 — I6NET, a company specializing in sophisticated VoiceXML browsers for speech applications, and Vestec, a company specializing in robust affordable speech recognition engines, announced a partnership today for integration of their products for the Asterisk telephony platform. The combination of I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser and Vestec Speech Engine significantly reduces the cost, time, and difficulty of implementing sophisticated speech recognition solutions with Asterisk. VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk provides the ability to rapidly develop and deploy innovative VoiceXML-controlled voice and video applications in VoIP, PSTN, and 3G-324M networks. VXI* is fully compliant with W3C VoiceXML 2.0 and some 2.1 specifications, and can easily integrate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems to enable advanced IVR/IVVR applications, voice and video communications, and real-time video calling applications. VXI* interpreter is pluggable into […]
May 3, 2010

Vectec Speech Recognition is now available for VXI*

Today, we are please to announce that Vectec Speech Recognition Engine (ASR)  is now available for VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk. It’s a new oportunity for customers to deploy advanced IVR that boasts high accuracy, low price, standard grammar, large vocabulary, and scalable architecture. We will publish more information about this new connector and ASR very soon, stay tunned at our blog. More information about Vestec: www.vestec.ca