Today, if you have to manage Video Communications over Internet (public, private, wifi, 3g, 4g…), you may think about how to solve some very common public IP networks’ barriers and issues like: Packet lost, Firewalls policies, Router NAT, Packets filtering, Low Bandwidth, Connection cuts off…

Now, the question is:
“How we really manage to make voice or video calls on that network conditions!”

Obviously, it’s not so easy with a common telecom protocol.
This SIP vs RTMP Comparison Report, will help you to learn a bit more about these two protocols:

1. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP)…
2. The Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a public protocol developed by Adobe/Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, and not only for a Flash player…

You can get our complete comparision SIP vs RTMP (for videocalls) report here.

Download: report-i6net-sip-rtmp-05-2012.pdf - 76 hits

Authors: I6NET Solutions and Technologies, SL
Date: April, 27 2012

We are pleased to unveil the first IVR / IVVR demo service to test 10 TTS engines!

This demo show you how each TTS works with our VXI* VoiceXML browser to test many languages by yourself over a PSTN call or a web call. Our VXI* server is connected to all of these engines at the same time, and it’s running each VoiceXML session in real-time. We will extend this demo service for more languages and voices in the next weeks.

We want to thank all our TTS technology partners for their engine contribution on this demo service where you can select and discover all their product’s voices.

Text-to-Speech Engines:

• Verbio
• Ivona
• Google
• Voxygen
• Loquendo-Nuance
• Truevoice-SpeechTechnologyGroup
• Lumenvox
• Acapela-Group
• MBROLA-eSpeak (coming soon)
• Festival Lite (coming soon)

Languages:

• English (EN)
• English UK (EN-UK)
• English US (EN-US)
• French (FR)
• Spanish (ES)
• Polish (PL)
• German (DE)
• Arabic (AR)

PSTN Phone Number:
Call +34 911877474 (local geographic) from any phone or mobile

Web Phone (Audio):
http://demo.i6net.org/phone/audio.html   Call 0013  (register with your own nickname)

Web Phone (Video):
http://demo.i6net.org/phone  Call 0013  (register with your own nickname)

Access Codes (4 digits PIN):

Verbio TTS
8101 (EN), 8102 (ES)

Ivona TTS
8201 (EN), 8202 (FR), 8103 (ES), 8204 (PL), 8205 (DE)

Google TTS
8301 (EN), 8302 (FR), 8303 (ES)

Voxygen TTS
8401 (EN), 8402 (FR), 8403 (ES)

Truevoice TTS
8501 (EN-UK), 8502 (EN-US), 8503 (ES)

Loquendo-Nuance TTS
8601 (EN), 8602 (FR), 8603 (ES)

Lumenvox TTS
8701 (EN-UK), 8702 (EN-US), 8703 (ES)

Acapela TTS
8801 (EN), 8802 (FR), 8803 (ES), 8804 (DE), 8805 (AR)

Coming soon:

MBROLA-eSpeak TTS
9001 (EN), 9002 (FR), 9003 (ES)

Festival-Lite TTS
9101 (EN)

We are very pleased to present the 7.0 release ref. 2012-03-22 of our VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk. This new 2012 edition is the most advanced interpreter that can run over Asterisk . As in previous releases, we include specific improvements and new features that will provide you the best IVR / IVVR experience for your voice and video telephony projects. VXI* 7.0 is suitable for production platforms running with all latest Asterisk 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 kernels! (all Asterisk’s packages are available for download too).

Many Linux OS Distributions versions available based on:

• Debian 6.0 Squeeze 32bit | 64bit
• Debian 5.0 Lenny 32bit | 64bit
• CentOs 6.0-6.2 32bit | 64bit
• CentOs 5.4-5.7 32bit | 64bit

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

Powered by I6NET Software

New features added and modifications:

• add: Prefix ‘@’ in the account number to select by caller number.
• mod: Correction for S_ISREG symbol not found (load module).
• add: Special mode for <clear>, namelist with “.” not clear eventcounters.
• add: Account parameter ‘wait’, wait before start the VoiceXML browser.
• add: Option account force ‘vxml’ to disable ‘@’ execution.
• add: Prefix “record:” to access to the recorded local messages (record dest).
• add: Add attribute ‘dest’/'destexpr’ to the record (record in recorddirectory).
• add: Parameter to control the originate delay.

Thank you for your continuous support!

We are pleased to reference a new research paper from the Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, Spain.

This paper provides an insight into the process of developing comprehensive voice-enabled and interoperable learning services. It provides a background on the Voice Interactive Classroom, a service-oriented architecture that enables cross-platform multichannel access to Internet-based learning. Strategies and practices for designing, developing, documenting and evaluating service-oriented applications are also presented, which allow aural access to existing e-learning platforms. In addition, it’s summarise the development of four voice-enabled learning services and report the findings obtained from evaluating their usability and didactic effectiveness. This research is intended to facilitate students and practitioners with planning, implementing and evaluating their own solutions.

This research paper proposes the use of a service-oriented approach, supported by the e-learning specifications IMS Abstract Framework and The Open Knowledge Initiative, to provide a complementary audio communication channel and enable the interoperability of audio features among the various e-learning platforms and components. In addition, the use of the W3C recommendations of VoiceXML, along with the methods and techniques of adaptive educational hypermedia, allows overcoming the limitations of using unusual or non-standard languages to describe voice dialogues and better adapt the on-line learning process to innovative e-learning scenarios.

“We introduced the use of I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser, which proved easy to install and reliable in use. VXI* can be used altogether with Asterisk and various Text to Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition solutions, including a few which provide support for the use of the Spanish language. This characteristic makes it highly convenient for our developments and an important factor to choose it in following studies” said Víctor Manuel Álvarez García, Faculty Member Assistant Professor – European Ph.D. Learning Technologies.

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.2814/abstract

Authors: Víctor Manuel Álvarez García, M. Puerto Paule Ruiz, Moisés Riestra González, Juan Ramón Pérez Pérez
Publication: Concurrency and Computation
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, copyright 2012
Date: Feb 1, 2012

Link to Flikr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/i6net/sets/72157629120557758/show/

Link to Flikr:

http://www.flickr.com//photos/i6net/sets/72157629477402597/show/

We had a great partnership meeting with Jakub from Ivona TTS, one of our Congress Partner at  MWC 2012 Barcelona.

Link to Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com//photos/i6net/sets/72157629105103320/show/

Link to Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com//photos/i6net/sets/72157629460433913/show/

We are very proud to announce that massphoning will join us at next next Mobile World Congress 2012 Barcelona #MWC.

Developed with Cloud IVR Technology, this service allows any business to schedule massive phone calling campaigns from anywhere. The campaigns can deliver calls issued in waves of hundreds at a time, so a huge number of people can be reached in a very short time. In addition, and unlike SMS, you can gather feedback from the recipients who can keypress on their phones to make choices and answer questions.

The Massphoning Cloud Service runs over an REST/OAuth application programming interface like Twitter, Facebook or Google+. You can use this advanced API to easily integrate many apps or websites with the Massphoning technology. This enables users to connect with each other for maximum engagement using many calls at once features from within your applications. Use it for Emergency warnings, Polls and surveys, Encouragement messages, Attendant confirmations…

Go ahead now! and discover it at www.massphoning.com

Massphoning is I6NET’s Congress Partner at next MWC 2012 Barcelona.
Ulex Innovative Systems booth at French Pavilion UbiFrance Hall 2, 2F49 exhibit Days 27, 28.

More information:

• Meet us at next Mobile World Congress Barcelon 2012
• I6NET at next Mobile World Congress 2012 #MWC Barcelona
• Massphoning.com Website