We are please to share some pictures from Astricon 2008 Glendale at Phoenix AZ.

We hope you enjoy all conferences of this longest-running event devoted to all Asterisk’s community. Thanks again to all our partners and visitors, specially to Lumenvox and Digum for whole organization and sponsoring to this great meeting.  All theses days, we have received plenty of good news, maybe we can take note about two significant ones like Skype & Asterisk interoperability and Asterisk’s ecosystem launching with newest binary installation packages for the whole marketplace and all Linux distributions!

From Glendale, Phoenix AZ USA… Best regards.

Press release: Astricon 2008, October 23th - PRWEB

Madrid, Spain and San Diego, California (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 — I6NET, a company specializing in Interactive Voice & Video Response technologies, and LumenVox, a speech recognition software company, announced today the release of VXI* 3.1. VXI* enables thousands of existing VXML applications to run on the Asterisk PBX platform, and new speech recognition solutions to be built affordably.

“The release of VXI*, powered by the LumenVox Speech Engine, allows the large pool of VXML developers to run existing speech applications on the Asterisk platform or to develop new ones that are standards-based,” commented Bill Meisel, president of TMA Associates and Publisher & Editor of Speech Strategy News. “The widespread use of the Asterisk platform presents an opportunity for VoiceXML developers to increase adoption of speech solutions in cost-sensitive markets. And who isn’t sensitive to cost?”

We are very pleased with ease of development with VXML and integration between i6NET and LumenVox technologies, and will have a very robust platform to support the strong growth and global roll-out of the MyVocal service.

MyVocal, a mobile audio service that provides audio content, such as podcasts, travel guides, audio-books, etc., is now adding speech recognition, allowing subscribers of MyVocal to use the service without a single key press. “It was a natural choice for us to select I6NET’s VXI* VoiceXML browser and the LumenVox Speech Engine on the open source Asterisk platform,” said Alexey Patsko, CEO and founder of MyVocal. “We are very pleased with ease of development with VXML and integration between i6NET and LumenVox technologies, and will have a very robust platform to support the strong growth and global roll-out of the MyVocal service.”

“SMB and Fortune 500 companies that service millions of users on Asterisk platforms can now run VXML-based speech solutions,” said Jim Webster, Director of Technology Partnerships at Digium. “This allows both developers and Asterisk users to take advantage of low-cost and robust speech solutions, with the economies of scale Asterisk provides.”

The LumenVox Speech Engine is the only speech recognition software natively integrated with Asterisk and distributed and supported by Digium. VXI* 3.1 is available from I6NET at http://www.i6net.com.

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Date: September 23-25, 2008
Location: Glendale, AZ, USA
Booth: 505

Join I6NET at AstriCon 2008 to discover VoiceXML technology for those who are getting started with Asterisk®, as well as those who have already discovered the power of open source telephony.  Look for our IVR / IVVR  software add-ons and how these can help you increase your innovation possibilities for your Asterisk® systems.

Meet I6NET at Booth 505, with Lumenvox

More information: www.astricon.net



Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfEYn0hoLc

Create amazing voice & video driven applications for 3G phone networks with VXI* 3.1 VoiceXML browser and Lumenvox Speech Engine (ASR) becomes something very simple. Find here a short video demo, where an video interactive character tells you to say numbers and then repeat you the recognized ones. This VoiceXML example use different advanced VXI* features like:

1. Play 3GP video clips with Text-to-Speech (TTS)
2. Lumenvox Speech Recognition (ASR) inside connector
3. Text-to-Video (TTV) to show the result in the display

Download the source code:

download: Sample 9 - Video ASR service (92.12KB) added: 14/09/2008 | hits : 180 description:

Powered by I6NET Software

Keep it simple! Thanks.

The final VXI* VoiceXML browser 3.1 “late summer” ref. 2008-09-02 64bit is now released with the already published VXI* 3.1 32bit! These new release is suitable for production Linux 64bit platforms running with all lastest Asterisk 1.4 kernels. We are already working on the next 4.0 64bit! Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date on our progress or check out one of our nightly builds and see for yourself!

You can download now both 32bit and 64bit new packages from website for registered users.

download: Vxml 3.1 2008-09-01 x86 32bit (8.68MB) added: 01/09/2008 | hits : 101 description:

download: Vxml 3.1 2008-09-02 x86 64bit (8.81MB) added: 10/09/2008 | hits : 33 description:

Powered by I6NET Software

Same new features and modifications as in 3.1 32bit release.

Thank you for your continuous support!

This is great new from the US for american 3G interactive services market evolution!

Reston, VA, September 4, 2008 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported that after a slower start,  the United States has caught up with Western Europe in the adoption of 3G with 28.4 percent of American mobile subscribers having 3G devices versus 28.3 percent in the largest countries in Europe.

The number of U.S. subscribers with 3G enabled devices has grown 80 percent to 64.2 million during the past year. The market has responded enthusiastically as mobile vendors have rolled out their enhanced networks and a new crop of 3G enabled devices. The only individual major European countries exceeding the U.S. in 3G penetration are Italy and Spain.

Complete link information here.

The final VXI* VoiceXML browser 3.1 “late summer” ref. 2008-09-01 32bit is now released! In few days the same package for 64bit will be available too. These new release is suitable for production platforms running with all lastest Asterisk 1.4 kernels. We are already working on the next 4.0!  Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date on our progress or check out one of our nightly builds and see for yourself!

You can download these new packages from website for registered users.

download: Vxml 3.1 2008-09-01 x86 32bit (8.68MB) added: 01/09/2008 | hits : 101 description:

Powered by I6NET Software

New features added:

• add: additional properties for the TextToVideo
• add: Specific video URL in the accounts
• add: Video detection
• add: Counters (PEAK, DENIED, SPEECHS)
• add: Set VXML_ERROR if the session cannot be open (content the cause)
• add: End date to the session dump
• add: Use Number (calledif)) to identify the account
• add: Option mute to openvxi
• add: CLI admin commands
• add: alias mimitype video/3gp
• add: VXML() asterisk function to get/set parameters
• add: Porting for Asterisk 1.2
• add: Priority configuration
• add: Sessions dump
• add: CDRupdate parameter
• add: Asterisk vxml application dates
• add: Add the dial: transfer prefix
• add: CDR updates at the end of the VoiceXML session
• add: .alaw and .ulaw formats for the TTS
• add: ASR automatic allocation
• add: speech configuration for the accounts
• add: Object property to get internal properties values
• add: Configuration of DTMF controls

Modifications:

• mod: Disable SIGPIPE generation
• mod: Open sessions locks
• mod: support Jsession (java sessions)
• mod: Start/stop script (without safe_openvxi)
• mod: Disable log Stdout by default
• mod: Remove direct chan access
• mod: vxml show application
• mod: Correction in the offset object
• mod: Small correction for CLI commands
• mod: Correction to use the MP3Player application
• mod: Correction to support exec: in the transfer

More information about VXI* updated features here.

Thank you for your support!