June 9th, 2011, Madrid, Spain. Valdepeñas is well known to produce one of the most famous spanish red vines from Castilla-La Mancha. This city has deployed a large innovative auto-attendant service for all its citizen to improve information and many public administration processes. Citizens can now get faster information 24×7, real time feedback, and manage better all their requirements to the Valdepeñas City Government just using their phone. Some key features are:

• Get information status for citizen’s requests
• Claims and suggestions management
• Sports facilities booking
• Appointment management
• Information Listing
• City news
• Emergency calls
• Polls management

Ambiser has implemented SACVoz a set of VoiceXML applications integrated with the city government backoffice systems. SACVoz is running over Asterisk servers powered by VXI* VoiceXML browser from I6NET. (more…)

June 8th, 2011, Madrid, Spain. We are pleased to annouce a new success story about Nuance Recognizer 9 and VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk, the open source telephony platform. MDtel Telecomunicaciones is an expert company with 10 years experience on Networks, PBX and Telephony systems deployments and I6NET is provider of advanced IVR/IVVR solutions for Asterisk. MDtel has selected VXI* software to run Nuance Recognizer 9 and Asterisk as platform’s server for a Telcos Customer Care Service. Nuance Recognizer 9 was already in production with another PBX and IVR systems and was a key element to keep running the Telco voice services deployed. VXI* is a highly scalable and affordable voice browser, able to rollout standard based VoiceXML applications and ready to run Nuance speech engines through the MRCP interface in carrier-grade conditions.

“We are really very proud to manage with MDtel team a complete service roll-out over Nuance with dynamic grammars and for key business processes in a Telcos environment.” says Iván Sixto, CEO and Business Development Manager of I6NET.

“Selecting the right IVR technology for a carrier-grade project with an important background of existing systems becomes something very critical; we have taken the decision of VXI* with common sense and cost effectivity according to a large experience on Asterisk and Telephony Systems” says Antonio Sánchez, CTO of MDtel.

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May 27th 2011, Madrid (Spain). Past May 22th 2011, 34 Millions of spanish voters went to the polls in local and regional Sunday to elect mayors in 8,000 cities and towns as well as presidents in 13 of 17 regional governments. To get information about their poll stations, different cities have selected Ambiser able to provide a smart phone service for online information retrieval from citizen databases.

I6NET was selected to provide the IVR technology based on VXI* VoiceXML server farms in partnership with Ambiser provider of advanced voice portal solutions and consultancy services. This Auto-attendant Phone Service was developed in several local spanish languages according to each city and region.

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March 18th, 2011, Madrid, Spain and Gdynia, Poland. IVONA Text-to-Speech, global speech technology provider, and I6NET, provider of IP/3G telephony IVR/IVVR solutions for Asterisk, today announced the availability of a new IVONA Text-to-Speech (TTS) connector to the VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk platforms. With VXI*, customers can access IVONA high-quality TTS voices to send and receive voice and video messages, listen to phone podcasts, newspaper articles, etc., all leveraging IVONA’s highly intelligible, human-like Text-to-Speech. The VXI* high-optimization integration with Asterisk provides advanced voice and video services, 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.

“IVONA is more than a high-quality Text-to-Speech engine for our VXI* VoiceXML solutions,” explained Iván Sixto, CEO and Business Development Manager of I6NET. “They are able to enhance our global market offering by dramatically increasing the number of high-quality voices in various languages that our customers can select.”

“We’re very excited to bring IVONA’s human-quality voices to high-growth international IVR markets,” says Lukasz Osowski, CEO of IVONA Software. “In these environments, quality is the most important purchasing factor. Everyone wants a voice that sounds natural and lifelike and uses the proper inflection,” added Osowski, “and our BrightVoice technology meets those criteria.”

IVONA TTS voice are available in: British English, American English, Polish, German, Spanish (Castilian), American Spanish, Romanian, French, with many more coming soon, e.g. Italian.

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Madrid, Spain – June 25th, 2010: I6NET is pleased to announce it has been chosen by voice communications innovator, HulloMail™ (www.hullomail.com), to be the VoiceXML interpreter of their open source media server to support the continued expansion of their services.

HulloMail, which launched a year ago, is revolutionising the way people use voicemail by developing the most innovative and user-friendly way to send, manage and share day-to-day voice communications.

Andy Munarriz, founder and CEO, HulloMail said: “I6NET’s VoiceXML technologies are an ideal fit for HulloMail. We are committed to an open source, standards based approach to delivering voice services, and working with I6NET allows us to honour this commitment. I6NET has a great reputation in the telephony industry for its research and product development and we are pleased to partner with them so we can integrate new speech recognition functionalities into our HulloMail offering. Resulting new feature updates will be sent to our users in due course.”

Ivan Sixto, founder and CEO, I6NET said: “HulloMail is a impressive service providing advanced added value to millions of subscribers worldwide. We are very pleased to provide Hullomail with our VoiceXML engines to add new features to the HulloMail smart voicemail service, whilst also making it easier for them to focus on their business operations and global expansion plans.”

The HulloMail technology, used daily by over 35 million subscribers worldwide, has been developed with an emphasis on extensive product research and consumer-led innovation.

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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 scalable as well as affordable.

Oreka allows clients to search, find and categorize recordings based on time or date of call, incoming phone number, outgoing phone number or other customer requirements. The VoIP Ready Oreka TR enhances the Oreka GPL recorder that runs on all computer operating systems and integrates with any phone system. Access to the calls is provided with standard browsers like Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, without installing any additional software. Replay of calls works with a standard Media Player. Powerful and flexible search criteria allow for immediate and accurate retrieval of required calls.

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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 standard Digium Asterisk PBX releases, including Asterisk Business Edition. The solution is scalable as well as affordable.

Vestec’s speech engine significantly broadens the market for speech recognition with Asterisk by offering a high-quality, standards-based, easy-to-use solution at fraction of the cost of conventional vendors. The engine costs $99 per port, without any minimum port license purchase requirement. It is easy to install, supports industry standard grammar format, provides a vocabulary size sufficient for a wide variety of speech applications, and supports all major Asterisk releases and Linux distributions on both 32 and 64 bit machines. A starter kit, comprising a specially priced one port perpetual license for a full-feature standard engine, is available for only $25.

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As of today, both companies are now delivering integration between the Altitude uCI suite and I6NET VXI* video over IP/3G components for Asterisk. The combined solution offers a set of tools that include advanced Video Interaction features which allows contact centers to ensure continued innovation and customer satisfaction at the lowest cost possible. Contact Center Market trends are increasing demand for new and more customer care channels; Video is one of the top features required to improve new services for short to medium time.

Sources: Press Releases – Alianza entre Altitude Software e I6NET

February 24th, 2010, Turin, Italy and Madrid, Spain. Loquendo, global speech technology provider, and I6NET, provider of IP/3G telephony IVR/IVVR solutions for Asterisk, today announced a new updated for their integration of Loquendo Text-to-Speech (TTS) into VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk platforms.

With VXI*, customers can connect Loquendo’s high-quality TTS voices to send and receive voice and video messages, access podcasts, newspapers, etc., all leveraging on Loquendo’s highly intelligible and human-like text-to-speech.

VXI* use a high-optimized integration with Asterisk that provides advanced voice & video services, 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.

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February 22th 2010, Washington – USA, Madrid – Spain. We are very proud to announce our partnership and technical collaboration with Ecotronics the creators of Kapanga an amazing video softphone for IP communications. I6NET’s team is working with Ecotronics since years but the convergence of our products is today a real new step for video business solutions. Kapanga is available for Windows, Linux, Android, Windows Mobile and support most of Video and Audio codecs used for Voice or Video over IP Telephony Services.

More information about Kapanga: http://www.kapanga.net

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