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HulloMail™ integrates I6NET’s VoiceXML technology to extend smart voicemail services

janus — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:17:11 +0000

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.

About I6NET

I6NET Solutions and Technologies Limited is a pan European company specializing in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions. Its innovative VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice and video IP/3G services to access multi-lingual and dynamic contents.

For more information, visit www.i6net.com

I6NET and Orecx partner to offer IVR over Voice Recording solutions to Asterisk platform

ines — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:12:38 +0000

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.

“Oreka is a very complementary software for our VXI* products, both are providing a complete solution from Asterisk to build complex autoattendant systems now with Oreka voice recording application to manage quality management and service control for any call. Orecx and I6NET are Digium’s partners and Asterisk’s ecosystem members since years, now both companies are committed to collaborate with their most advanced products for this Open Source Telephony Platform” said Ivan Sixto, Co-Founder & CEO of I6NET.

“We are very excited about this relationship with I6NET,” said Bruce Kaskey, Co-Founder of Orecx. “I6NET and OrecX work closely with Digium and Asterisk products, the combination gives customers affordable, scalable and sophisticated software that enhances the end-users telephony platform.”

I6NET’s VoiceXML browser for Asterisk is available at: http://www.i6net.com while Oreka Voice Recorder for Asterisk can be purchased at: http://www.orecx.com

About I6NET

I6NET Solutions and Technologies Limited is a pan European company specializing in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions. Its innovative VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice services to access multi-lingual and dynamic content.

More information: http://www.i6net.com

About Orecx

Chicago based OrecX provides open source VoIP call center grade recording solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary recording applications that often run $1,000-$4,000 per phone line recorded. OrecX is the primary developer and sponsor of the Oreka open source call recording project hosted on sourceforge.net (www.oreka.org). More than 56,000 users have downloaded the open source version of Oreka, which has received accolades from Linux World, Unified Communications Magazine and VON Magazine.

More information: http://www.orecx.com

I6NET and Vestec partner to bring a high-quality, low-cost VoiceXML browser and speech recognition engine solution to Asterisk platform

ines — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:18:48 +0000

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.

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.

“Cost has always been an issue for speech solutions and Vestec’s engine goes a long way towards making speech recognition affordable to the rapidly growing Asterisk community,” said Ivan Sixto, Co-Founder & CEO of I6NET. “We are delighted that Vestec shares our goal of reducing the cost and complexity of developing speech applications with I6NET VoiceXML browser.” Dr. Fakhri Karray, President & CEO of Vestec, said, “Our aim is to popularize and commoditize speech recognition by leveraging unique artificial intelligence technologies. We are thrilled to have partnered with I6NET to offer a robust, affordable integrated VoiceXML browser and speech recognition solution for Asterisk.”

I6NET’s VoiceXML browser for Asterisk is available at: http://www.i6net.com/ while Vestec’s speech engine for Asterisk can be purchased at: http://www.asteriskexchange.com/listings/113

About I6NET

I6NET Solutions and Technologies Limited is a pan European company specializing in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions. Its innovative VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice services to access multi-lingual and dynamic content. For more information: http://www.i6net.com

About Vestec

Vestec’s goal is to commoditize, standardize and demystify speech recognition through use of unique artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The company’s speech recognition engine delivers performance comparable to leading conventional engines at a fraction of their cost and empowers speech application developers via its ease-of-use. More information is available at http://www.evestech.com/

Altitude Software partners with I6NET to deliver advanced Video IP contact center services

ines — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:21:05 +0000

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

I6NET makes Loquendo TTS technology to interoperate with available Asterisk platforms through its VXI* VoiceXML browser connectors

ines — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:23:38 +0000

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.

“Loquendo was the first text to speech engine TTS chosen by I6NET since years ago and today this engine continues to keep a very important customer satisfaction, guaranteeing and optimal performance with our solutions. Loquendo’s highly expressive and natural sounding text to speech is always continues to helping us to offer a high-quality of synthetic speech to our IVR/IVVR systems” says Iván Sixto, CEO and Business Development Manager of I6NET.

“Our partner I6NET has developed the a complete VoiceXML solution for Asterisk that allows the use of Loquendo our speech solutions like TTS – and in the middle future Loquendo ASR – in the Asterisk domain, guaranteeingat the highest performance and quality best performance quality and can do results. I6NET integration on Asterisk expands the use of Loquendo in the growing Open Source telephony technologies market” says Massimiliano Ferrero, EMEA Area Manager at Loquendo.

Loquendo Text-to-Speech technology offers the widest language coverage for the Spanish market, with Castilian, Catalan, Galician and Valencian. Loquendo TTS is the only speech product engine on the market that to offers an emotional component, capable tof delivering lifelike synthetic speech that is truly expressive. Loquendo TTS makes any speech application intelligible, natural sounding and easy to use, and is available in many more than 26 28 languages and 60 68 voices.

More about Loquendo Vocal Technology and Services

Awarded Speech Industry ‘Market Leader’ for the past three years, Loquendo provides a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions – in 28 languages with 68 voices, and constantly growing – helping businesses deliver a next-generation client experience while saving them millions each year.

Loquendo Embedded Technologies are innovative, easy-to-integrate solutions deployed in more than 10 million mobile and on-board navigation systems globally, as well as powering PDAs, assistive devices, virtual Web-assistants and other embedded solutions around the world.  Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies, also available on the Loquendo MRCP Server and VoiceXML and CCXML platform.  Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a global network of partners.

About Loquendo

With over 30 years experience in speech technology, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech market. Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Speaker Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions whatever the application. Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners.

LOQUENDO Spain office | Avda.Bruselas 13,1ºC Alcobendas-Madrid Spain
marco.pinasanchez@loquendo.com | www.loquendo.com

About I6NET

I6NET | calle Magallanes 13 – 28015 Madrid – Spain
info@i6net.com | www.i6net.com

Kapanga, the Video over IP Softphone for your VXI* IVVR Services

ines — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:53 +0000

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

About Ecotronics
Founded in 2000, Washington DC-based Ecotronics is a professional firm providing Information Technology and Electronics Engineering solutions for corporations, academia and federal agencies. With focus on IP telephony software solutions and instrument engineering for meteorological applications, the company delivers its innovative solutions to clients around the world.

Ecotronics Ventures LLC
12662 Piedmont Trail Road – Clarksburg, Maryland 20871 – USA
www.ecotronics.com

About I6NET
I6NET Solutions and Technologies Limited is a pan European company specializing in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions. Its innovative VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice and video IP/3G services to access multi-lingual and dynamic contents.

I6NET | calle Magallanes 13 – 28015 Madrid – Spain
www.i6net.com

Call Recording and Speech Analytics over I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser and Verbio Technology

ines — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:12:04 +0000

February 5th 2010, Barcelona, Madrid – Spain. In today’s challenging customer contact centre environment, customer service representatives spend the majority of their time dealing with complex and time-consuming calls. So it is ever more critical that they handle these calls according to corporate guidelines. In addition, contact centres across many sectors are dealing with increased regulation, creating the need to monitor potential compliance issues, and resolve these swiftly, before they escalate into serious problems.

These challenges apply to contact centres of every size. The VXI* – Verbio Speech Analytics over Asterisk provides a scalable solution, with applications tailored to the needs and budgets of both large and small contact centres. And, because it is based on an open architecture, it can co-exist easily with your existing contact centre IT infrastructure and others PBX systems. Designed for huge volumes of recordings VXI* VoiceXML browser is able manage intelligent call routing and call recording rules in front of a transfer to ACD or agents. Verbio Speech Analytics will provide phonetic audio search engine allowing you to evaluate up to 100% of your recorded calls by VXI*.

Some features of Verbio Speech Analytics are:

Key Word Detection
Silence, Music, Speech Detection
Speaker Filtering
Language Detection
Male/Female Voice Detection
Age Detection (young, old people, …)
Emotions Detection (sadness, happyness, apathy,…)

Some features of VXI* for call recording are:

VoiceXML over Asterisk Monitor call recording
CDR database updatable from VoiceXML
Dynamic VoiceXML smart call routing according to corporate guidelines
Files recorded in WAV, gsm, mp3… and many others Asterisk formats supported

About Verbio
VERBIO is a company based in Barcelona (Spain), specialized in speech technologies, aimed basically at the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American markets. It designs, develops and sells the range of VERBIO speech technologies and offers professional services specializing in speech, such as technical support, consultancy, tailor-made developments, maintenance and tuning of voice applications.

Verbio | Calle Loreto 44 Bajos Derecha– 08029 – Barcelona – Spain
info @ verbio . com | www.verbio.com

I6NET | calle Magallanes 13 – 28015 Madrid – Spain
info @ i6net . com | www.i6net.com

Phemium Consultant, the first SaaS Video Teleconsulting platform in a web portal or 3G

ines — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:22:38 +0000

February 3, 2010, Madrid, Barcelone – Spain. ANDROME partners with I6NET for its Phemium Consultant platform (www.phemiumconsultant.com), to provide dynamic voice/video menus for remote consulting for both phone and 3G phone calls. We are please to collaborate in a new kind of advanced on-demand business video platforms.

Phemium Consultant

While most of the companies sells their products in an e-commerce portal, those that provide professional and consulting services use their websites as an advertising tool only. There are no tools to manage and control comprehensively their service offerings, consultor resources and online transactions, in addition to communications, all essential to move their consulting business online. Phemium Consultant is the first application (SaaS) that manages comprehensively the business processes to offer and provide in real time teleconsulting services in a web portal or 3G.

More information: PhemiumConsultant – Video Demos

About ANDROME

Androme Iberica is a Spanish company belonging to the Androme group, a Pan European group of companies specialized in Telecommunications and multimedia software. Its main products are Intellivic, a set of video-conferencing products on SIP, and Phemium, a set of platforms for added value services on communication technologies such as SMS and video-telephony.

Androme Iberica | calle Numancia 73, 5ºA – 08029 Barcelona- Spain
info @ androme . es | www.androme.es

About I6NET

I6NET | calle Magallanes 13 – 28015 Madrid – Spain
info @ i6net . com | www.i6net.com

I6NET selects Infratech Solutions to manage its datacenters’ infrastructures evolution

janus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:15:14 +0000

I6NET is in continuous systems growth in order to provide more and better solutions base on all our technology components for the Next Generation Telephony. Today, we are please to announce, Infratech Solutions services renewal for all our IT management operations of virtualization, research & development servers and support for colocation services. With Infratech, our servers are maintained by the best system engineers with highest carrier conditions at VerizonBusiness / Interxion sites. Infratech and I6NET work together to deliver the high quality of services for our IVR / IVVR platforms. “Our teams are working really close since several years and share a strong commitment. Datacenter management becomes a very different task with them”, says Iván Sixto CEO of I6NET.

About Infratech

Infratech is a services company providing support for IP networking / Housing / Hosting / Security. Today Infratech is providing IT infrastructure management and advanced security solutions. Infratech supports services maximize the availability of IT hence, improving customer satisfaction and ROI on IT investment.

Infratech Solutions | Francisco Mosqueda, 4 -1º C 28043 Madrid (Spain)
info @ infratech .es | www.infratech.es

About I6NET

I6NET | calle Magallanes 13 – 28015 Madrid (Spain)
info @ i6net .com | www.i6net.com

MyVocal Releases The First Speech-Controlled Mobile Content Service Powered by I6NET’s VXI* VoiceXML Browser

janus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:41:56 +0000

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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About MyVocal

MyVocal is a developer of an innovative mobile content service which enables listening to any spoken audio content using any mobile phone. Users of MyVocal can control their personalized service with simple voice commands, customize their content on the mobile phone or over the web, and share their content on Twitter and Facebook. MyVocal also helps publishers address their commuting audience by providing a comprehensive set of tools and API for mobile distribution and monetization.
For more information, visit http://www.myvocal.com

About i6NET

I6NET Solutions and Technologies Limited is a pan European company specializing in the development of new applications and advanced communication solutions. It’s innovative VoiceXML browser and applications technology enables the creation of interactive voice services to access multi-lingual and dynamic content.
For more information: http://www.i6net.com