Flash or HTML5 that is the question? Piehead has compared the two approaches, and compiled an infographic outlining the pros and cons of each. Overall, neither Flash nor HTML5 can safely be ignored.
Source: http://www.piehead.com/blog/2012/01/flash-vs-html5
Entering 2012, we are please to announce a new important packaging update of the VXI* VoiceXML browser 6.3 release. First, we will provide more packages for most Linux OS kernels, base on Linux Debian and CentOS/Redhat distributions. Now, you can install VXI* on latest CentOS 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 kernels both 32bit or 64bit. By the way, the previous packages for CentOS 5 have been updated too.
Download all our packages:
More information: http://www.i6net.com/downloads/
The announcement by Adobe last week of the death of Flash on mobile devices will have a significant impact on software development platforms battle for mobiles, but it’s not the end of this war. The way you develop your mobile applications is important but it’s not the only key element to consider for online multimedia services. Our question is now: Is HTML5 able to replace Flash technology for video calling? Obviously, experts working on life video communications over the web, HTML5 is not yet ready but why?
Video Channels:
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VXI* is the VoiceXML browser for Asterisk and its Xtras* extensions allow to build advanced IVR / IVVR platforms to run standard voice and video telephony applications. This diagram shows each parts of a complete, flexible and evolutive business solution.
Software Components:
Speech engines:
More information:
We present a new update of the VXI* VoiceXML Browser Installation Guide; this new PDF file is now available at our download documents section. You will learn more about how to setup and modify all configuration parameters. This new documentation ref. 07/2011 has been updated for all VXI* 6.0, 6.1, 6.2rc,… releases and will provide important help to all users.
Download:
Some updates:
More information at: Documents
Thank your for your support!
June 20th, 2011, Madrid, Spain. We are pleased to announce the availability of Lumenvox Text-to-Speech (TTS) connector to the VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk platforms. It’s new TTS option but it’s really interesting because Lumenvox is able to provide both ASR and TTS engines for VXI*. In 2008, It was the first Speech Recognition provider for Asterisk and the first one running with the VXI* VoiceXML browser too.
Lumenvox TTS voices are available in: British English, American English, American Spanish with many more coming soon, e.g. French, Australian English, German.
More information about TTS connectors for VXI* here.
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New VXI* VoiceXML browser 6.1 has been enhanced with new commands line to provide more information to administrators. VXI* data logs are now managed easier from the Asterisk *CLI>; today get online information about all the calls, sessions, accounts, statistics, cache … your IVR/IVVR management becomes simple (for example):
hostname*CLI> vxml show version
Version : V6.1
Build with :
CVS Revision : $Revision: 1.469 $
Gcc : V4.3
Arch : 32 bits
Target : i686
Asterisk : V1.6.2.14
_ : by hudson@debian-50-i386
_ : on i686/Linux 2010-09-06 23:01:26 UTC
Options sum :
Date : May 24 2011 10:04:30
hostname*CLI>
Find here the new commands line dumped with Asterisk *CLI>: Help
Previous Posts:
Build your video IVR menus using SVG format. VXI* VoiceXML Browser 6.0 supports SVG format with the vxml <audio> tag like major web browsers does! With this feature, implementing a nice video menus or adding a wallpaper picture become really easier to design and to update. No pixels resizing, your content will always fit well into your phone video screen.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic. The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999. SVG images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files.
SVG Free Editor Tool: InkScape
Open Source SVG editor for many OS (Mac, Linux, Windows)
Website – http://www.inkscape.org
Please contact us for more information
Find here a small example about how to implement a VoiceXML callback feature for your IVR service. VXI* won’t pikup the call of the caller, a ringback tone is playing before handup. Once the call is hangup, the platform callback the caller (caller ID or session.connection.remote.uri). A callback service is a very good idea to avoid call charges for your customers when they are calling you.
account1:
account2:
System Requirements:
VoiceXML Accounts: vxml.conf
[account1]
name=voicexml_service
number=0001
url=http://localhost/vxml/index.vxml
dialformat=SIP/%s
[account2]
name=notanswer_callback
number=0002
url=http://localhost/vxml/callback.vxml
dialformat=SIP/%s
force=ringing
VoiceXML Code: callback.vxml
Very simple, isn’t it?