Please find here our last VoIP2DaY presentation about “Interactive Telephony 2.0″ (spanish) by our cofounder Ivan Sixto, available on Slideshare:

Link to Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/voipnovatos/sets/72157622451076396/show/

Thanks again to Alberto Sagredo from Voipnovatos for these nice pictures of VoIP2Day congress!

Link to Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysA6JHLwUvU

Thanks to Alberto Sagredo from Voipnovatos for this short video of our CEO Ivan Sixto’s presentation speaking about Interactive Telephony 2.0 at VoIP2DaY congress. We are please to share it again.

Telephony 1.0 was The Phone Company providing a monolithic experience encompassing everything from directories, to handsets and the network connecting.

Telephony 2.0 is a more diverse set of applications and the underlying services [...]

The complete video of this presentation will be publised soon at our blog.
Stay tuned.

September 22, 2009, San Diego, California US - MyVocal, a developer of the innovative mobile services and applications, announced today the release of the first speech-controlled mobile content service for commuters.

MyVocal brings various spoken audio content to millions of mobile users worldwide. It provides access to podcasts, audio books and magazines, streaming radio, and various interactive services through any phone. Using i6NET’s technology, MyVocal users can now control the service with simple spoken commands, making MyVocal a robust on-demand mobile radio available anytime, anywhere.

“MyVocal is a simple application that can change your life – it helps you listen to any of your content instead of reading it. The beauty is that you can listen to your content while commuting using just your cellphone – even a very basic one,” said Alex Patsko, CEO & co-Founder of MyVocal. “We believe that with MyVocal, you can utilize your commute time more wisely, getting more things done on the go, and eventually spend more time with your family and friends.”

MyVocal provides a complete white-label solution for content publishers, helping them bring their content to their commuting audience, and monetize this channel with advertising and mobile micro-payments. The MyVocal platform includes over 60 APIs that help integrate MyVocal with various 3rd-party applications and services.

“MyVocal is a flexible and highly scalable platform based on the open source technologies and standards such as Linux, Java and VoiceXML. One of the key components of our platform is the I6NET’s VXI* VoiceXML browser, which ensures seamless content delivery and speech-controlled user interface.” said Eugene Silin, CTO of MyVocal. “It takes literally just a few hours to scale-up the capacity or roll-out the service to a new country. A big part of this extensibility is possible thanks to i6NET’s VXI* VoiceXML browser which is seamlessly integrated with Asterisk.”

“We are happy that VXI* powers such innovative service as MyVocal”, said Iván Sixto, CEO and Business Development Manager of I6NET. “We have enriched the functionality of VXI* with several speech recognition and audio player features important for MyVocal users, and we are very excited to see how the MyVocal service is taking off, and bringing speech-controlled content services to consumers. We have had a real pleasure taking part in this project.”

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Voxbone’s Call Origination Services Certified to Work With I6NET VXI* IVVR 3G Video Telephony Solutions

BRUSSELS, Belgium and MADRID, Spain – Sept. 21, 2009 – Voxbone, a leading provider of international VoIP origination services and DID (direct inward dialed) numbers, and I6NET, a global software vendor for interactive voice and video software platforms, today announced completion of interoperability testing between their offerings.  The successful teaming of the partners’ services and platform opens up the potential for wireless carriers to bring mobile video services to market quickly.

The success of their test proved that calls from 3G mobile phones to Voxbone DIDs can retrieve and play chosen video content through I6NET’s voice and video browser, using a wireless voice channel. The teamed technology does not require the caller to have a data plan, or to download any software.

In the application tested, a caller using a 3G phone was able to view the live video of any of four remote surveillance cameras. This required a call to a Voxbone DID number, forwarded over IP to an IVR (interactive voice response) application running on I6NET’s VXI*’s voice and video browser. The application requested and received the touch tones that enabled the caller to select and control one of the four cameras.

I6NET’s VXI* then streamed video from the selected source back to the mobile phone. To make this possible, Voxbone had to ensure that the video signal would remain uncompressed, using a 64-kbps channel from its IP backbone up to the PSTN and 3G partners.

The video-to-mobile technology works with typical 3G-compatible phones, such as the Motorola A1000, Nokia E65 and N70, Blackberry Storm 9500 and Sony Ericsson z610i. It currently operates in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Spain; Voxbone plans to add other countries in early 2010.

Video Streaming Through a Wireless Voice Channel

“The integration of Voxbone and  I6NET offerings shows that common telephone numbers can now be used to watch videos transmitted from anywhere in the world through a local call,” said Rod Ullens, Voxbone CEO. “The delivery of video services is an emerging area of growth for Voxbone.”

In teaming with Voxbone, I6NET has gained access to local numbers from several countries through one IP interconnection, instead of needing separate interconnects, via traditional, TDM PRI channels, to separate carriers. This aggregated IP interconnection opens new horizons for automated and remote video applications.

“The completion of interoperability testing with Voxbone is another great step in the progress of 3G video telephony, and in the success of a new generation of carrier-grade service providers,” said Iván Sixto, CEO and business development director at I6NET. “It allows service providers to bring video services to market smoothly and quickly while eliminating high capital requirements for TDM infrastructure.”

I6NET’s VXI* product is an IP Multimedia Subsystem communication service implemented in software, allowing network providers to unify voice and video traffic within a single network. VXI* is provided with an unlimited perpetual license, on-site training, and technical support and upgrades.

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The final VXI* VoiceXML browser 4.2  ref. 2009-09-18 32bits/64bits is now released. These new release is suitable for production platforms running with all lastest Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 kernels. Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date on our progress or check out our lasts builds.

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

Powered by I6NET Software

New features added and modifications:

• mod: Correction for speech using (disable speech if no grammar active).
• mod: Support returning speech results during controled prompts.
• add: Support VOICE/SRGS (application/srgs+xml) load grammars.
• add: Record types “format/…” to support all the Asterisk formats.
• add: Support DTMF/JSGF (text/x-grammar-choice-dtmf) load grammars.
• add: blindapplication parameter (select an application or use a end dial).
• add: CDR option cdrconference to enable CDR generation for the conferences.
• add: Add append variable/function feature (with ‘+=’).
• mod: Correction in the read function feature.
• add: Asterisk 1.6.1.x Porting.
• add: Add addition version informations.
• add: Support VCR command from the ASR/speech.
• add: Support of ‘hotword’ with the bargeintype.
• mod: Correction in the “uri:” prefix.
• add: Memory for media files.
• mod: Correction to support an empty URL.
• mod: Correction for the 64bits portability.
• add: object ‘delete’
• add: URI with “originate:” to generate outgoing calls frome the <transfer> tag.
• mod: Corrections in the internal objects (string conversions).
• add: Add the maxEvents configuration parameter.
• mod: Support passing parameters to the conference (conf:test/M).
• add: URI with “app:” to execute an application from the <audio> tag.
• mod: Stop the speech ressource on DTMF key pressed.
• mod: Correction to check the structure of speech results.
• mod: Correction to match an account with the name.
• add: Add parameter speechbargein to disable the voice bargein.

I6NET is please to be one of the PromoMadrid top hi-tech companies selected to participate at next San Francico – Silicon Valley Business trip 20-23 October 2009. Our co-founder team can meet you there to talk about our products, partnerships or solutions for avdanced communications and phone/mobile interactivity.

About PROMOMADRID

PromoMadrid, Desarrollo Internacional de Madrid, S.A. is a regional government-owned company, incorporated in 2004 with the purpose of promoting and developing the Region of Madrid internationally from an economic perspective. PromoMadrid acts under the authority of the Madrid Regional Ministry of Economy and Finance Affairs. PromoMadrid´s objective is to support local companies in the Madrid Region throughout their internationalisation activities, to attract and retain foreign investment and to carry out and support actions which aim to enhance the presence, perception and appraisal of the region, its companies and institutions, as well as its cultural heritage and economic potential.

How to meet us

Request a meeting, sending us an email to info@i6net.com

Contact persons

Ivan Sixto  – Business Development
Borja Sixto – Research & Innovation

Evolution of Telephony goes Software, times of specific Hardware boards is changing…

Sept. 13, 2009: Intel Corporation today disclosed new information about next-generation Intel® Xeon® processors – codenamed “Jasper Forest” – for communications and storage applications, due in early 2010. With Jasper Forest, Intel engineers have, for the first time, integrated PCI Express* (PCIe*) in a dual-processing Xeon processor, which greatly facilitates dense storage and communications solutions such as IPTV, VoIP, NAS, SAN and wireless radio network controllers.

VXI* IVR / IVVR platforms get their power from the CPU; today last enhanced processors deliver superb computing power, performance, and reliability to manage a large numbers of simulteanous calls without using any specific DSP or boards.

Source:
Intel Corporation – http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2009/pdfs/TechBulletin_JasperForest.pdf

Discovering this article “The next big thing in mobile is… voice?” from Micheal Lambert, we learn why voice is the real challenge for mobiles phone services today. We have take some elements as summary but the complete article is really good to read.

Today, texting and mobile applications have surpassed voice in popularity, arguably because of their dynamic and flexible nature. Sending photos to friends in real-time is a snap, as is using SMS to update our Twitter status. [...] This burgeoning app market has a limited lifespan, though. Size and device constraints will eventually throw up roadblocks to mobile innovation – meaning it might be time to reevaluate our reliance on keyboards and touch screens.[...]

Voice has primarily sat apart from mobile applications on handsets, being mostly limited to basic phone functionality. Voice calls and the way we use them have remained fairly static since their inception in 1876. The real changes have been in the device, rather than the communication medium itself. [...]

The next logical step would be for something to emerge that tied all voice apps together; a way for the average mobile user to access all of them at once without the hassle of memorizing seven different usernames or figuring out one more user interface.

‘Voice Web’ technology is starting to let users do just that.

By Michael Lambert
Senior Director of Marketing for Ditech Networks

Source: VentureBeat: The next big thing is voice?

The company AMBISER has developed a new voice portal system designed to improve citizen care for the Public Administration Sector

September 07, 2009 - AMBISER INNOVATIONS will present at “VoIP2Day”, a fair dedicated to communication systems for voice over IP to be held in Madrid next SIMO Network 2009 Congress 22-24 September, the solutions developed for the citizen attention based on the voice portal services and the I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser.

A voice portal is a website where citizens can access through a simple phone call, no need for a PC. The user interacts with the service using the telephone keypad or the voice. The system is able to recognize it and then generate the voice to offer a response.

The voice portal system developed by AMBISER is designed to be implemented basically in Public Administration, such as the Avila City Council, which has already added it to its citizens services.

These voice portal solutions provide to the users, quickly and easy, consultation and access for a  range of services, such as the request for an appointment to perform an administrative formality, consultation lists, registrations or to send complaints or suggestions that improve, ultimately, the Public Administration contribution to citizens.

The exhibition “VoIP2DaY“, which this year celebrates its second edition to be held September 22-24 at the Convention Center North, Feria de Madrid (IFEMA), is focused on communication via voice and video over IP, transmission protocol on internet that voice portal services uses.
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