ivan | Announcement | Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
What’s new for the beginning of 2009 year?
The 4th generation of our I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk is coming.
As some of our partners and customers already knows, we’ve been working behind the scene on the development of the new version 4.0 of VXI* VoiceXML browser for lasted Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 platforms. This new release is currently installed in most preproduction platforms deployed since a couple of months, and it really powerful for videocalling and last Asterisk kernels running over Dhadi!
We will be publishing more descriptions and the full packages to download very soon for the first week of January. We are also working in a new 4.0 documentation and installation guides.
Overall the response so far this new release is the major change made to our IVR/IVVR VoiceXML browser product since it creation; important features have been added to new video functions, programming options, logs/stats reporting and a new update for our automatic speech recognition engines (ASR) connector.
One more thing: VXI* 4.0 will be built for i686 with 32bit and 64bit OS
Barcelona, Madrid, Spain – December 28th, 2008, Verbio speech technology provider, and I6NET, provider of IVR/IVVR IP/3G telephony solutions for Asterisk, today announced a new update for their integration of Verbio – VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk platforms. VXI* use an hi-optimized integration with Asterisk that provides to Verbio advanced integration for speech engines, including protocol conversion, SSML, media conversion and streaming, application logic and third party integration. It supports industry standards for and is compatible with all devices supported by Asterisk.
“Verbio has a near collaboration with I6NET, because they are very close to Iberian and Hispanic market that needs voices and languages both for TTS and ASR components for our VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk; it’s very important for our solutions to work well with Verbio local voices, where they have their expertise” says Iván Sixto, CEO and Business Development Manager of I6NET. “Verbio s always helping us to offer an hi-value added of speech engines option to our IVR / IVVR Spanish systems for Latin/Iberian/European market. We appreciate as well the flexibility and their customer oriented technical support “.
“I6NET VXI* VoiceXML solution for Asterisk allows us to complement our offer in the Asterisk market where Verbio had seen as an very interesting challenge and has done big efforts in the integration. At the same time i6NET allows us to access a kind of customer that sometimes is difficult to reach. We appreciate as well the clear and nice relationship with i6NET that motivates us to develop new business opportunities” says Francesc Massana, Business Development Manager of Verbio.
Verbio TTS is the Verbio engine for voice synthesis or conversion of text to speech. It is a synthesis system offering high voice quality, naturalness and intelligibility. Available in the different languages used within the Iberian Peninsula and in some Latin American countries. Verbio ASR is Verbio’s speech recognition engine. Aimed at telephone applications, and speaker-independent, it is also applicable in certain microphone and multimedia applications. Available in the different languages used in the Iberian peninsula and in all Latin American countries. Verbio also complements this offer with others value added speech products like wordspotting, natural language recognition engine, speaker verification, etc.
Digium announces that its Asterisk open source telephony software was downloaded 1.5 million times in 2008, more than any other year in company history and an impressive 50 percent higher than last year. The announcement caps a year of milestones and accolades for Digium and marks a promising start to 2009, when Digium celebrates the 10th anniversary of Asterisk, the open source software that is changing the telecommunications world.
Digium’s strong 2008 year highlights the attractiveness of less expensive, easily customizable open source software in the current recession. Asterisk is the world’s dominant open source telephony software. As the economic crisis worsened, Asterisk downloads rose by 32 percent from September through December, compared to a year ago.
Spain, France – December 8th 2008. Today, we want to talk about MyVocal.com – a personalized mobile service for commuters. MyVocal allows immediate listening to any spoken word audio content (podcasts, travel guides, audio-books, user-generated content, any text converted into speech, etc.) by simply dialing the local phone number. MyVocal is featured with mobile and web portals helping in finding the content, managing playlist and favorites, adding new content to the library, sharing content with friends on Facebook and Twitter, etc.
By definition, MyVocal service works on any phone – audio is played on the voice portal powered by I6NET VoiceXML browser, so it works even on a fixed-line phone or VOIP provider (like Skype). All audio episodes on MyVocal are tagged with unique numeric IDs – users fetch these audio-articles by typing their DTMF codes. When user explores content from the mobile, the requested audio story is fetched automatically when user selects “Listen on MyVocal” link.
MyVocal is also a tool for partners such as publishers, operators or VAS providers. With simple web interface partner can customize and launch in few minutes their braded mobile portal and downloadable Java application with audio streaming. MyVocal will also help monetizing this content through premium subscriptions and mobile ads.
Thanks to our partner Avanzada7 to have video recordered all VoIP2day’s keynotes (in spanish). Our Business Development Manager, Iván Sixto was showing our solutions approach:
We are please to show some pictures from HomSEC 2008 at Madrid.
Thanks to AMPER to show 3G innovation in security and telecom with video IVR services. HomSec is the Trade Fair specifically devoted to the application of technology for the Security and Protection of the National Territory and Society (Homeland Security).
