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:
You can download these new binary packages from this website for registered users.
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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
Today, we are pleased to present a new Speech Recognition Connector for Google ASR.
Previously, in 2010, we had added a Text-to-Speech Connector for Google TTS, named CURL and already available for VXI* platforms.
Online Speech Recognition services are becoming very interesting for mobile phones and applications like Apple Siri (iOS) and Google Voice (Android). Obviously, these services over the Cloud don’t provide a realtime speech recognition and require an internet access to work but you get easily all speech recognized words in a simple text chain from a pre-recorded message. This approach is more and more accepted by users thanks to the iPhone 4S experience with Siri. Of course, the grammar structure is not really powerful compare to a VoiceXML-ASR realtime integration but for trainings and demo services, it could be very useful. Now, you can use Google TTS/ASR from VXI* to develop a smart VoiceXML phone service.
VoiceXML Code Example:
Downloads:
Warnings:
- Google ASR is an online free service for now.
- Future availability is under Google terms and conditions.
- An Internet access is required for each speech recognition request.
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We are very pleased to present the 6.3 release ref. 2011-01-05 of our VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk. There’s improvements and new specific features that will provide you the best IVR / IVVR experience for your voice and video telephony projects. VXI* 6.3 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). Now, our development team is working on the 7.0 release!
Many Linux OS Distributions versions available based on:
You can download these new binary packages from this website for registered users.
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New features added and modifications:
- add: Support of date/time DTMF builtin grammars.
- add: Configuration parameter to disable to touch the entries (no write in the table).
- add: Support audio attributes maxage and maxstale.
- mod: Correction of the false VXI connection lost.
- add: Parameter monitorformat to set the monitor file format.
- mod: Support attribut expr in the tag grammar to evaluate the url (not standard).
- mod: Support attribut tag in the tag grammar (not standard).
- add: New transfer prefix “outgoing:”, better then the standard originate.
Thank you for your continuous support!
Five years ago in 2006, the first public 1.4 beta of VXI* VoiceXML Browser launched, and in our blog post today we celebrate with “Five Years of VXI*”. There are more than 200 customers worldwide with production’s services, 3000 registred users, developers, students… VXI* can be deployed to replace traditional IVR platforms from small businesses to large corporations’ projects requirements. Over these years, VXI* has matured with Asterisk’s evolution and adding hundred of amazing features to an IVR like Video, Flash, Dialers and a large selection of TTS/ASR free or commercial engines.
Happy 5th Birthday, VXI*! We are looking forward to seeing where the next 5 years take you!
Timeline summary:
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Thank you for your continuous support!
We very are pleased to present the 6.2 release ref. 2011-09-15 of our VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk. There’s improvements and new specific features that will provide you the best IVR / IVVR experience for your voice and video telephony projects. VXI* 6.2 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:
You can download these new binary packages from this website for registered users.
Powered by I6NET Software
New features added and modifications:
- mod: Correction to support the Dial alternative without the tel: prefix.
- mod: Correction add a fixe maxspeechtimeout to extend the timeout.
- add: Option to execute a CLI command after the load (for chan_h323).
- add: Option to load a dynamic library (for chan_h323).
- add: Monitor option to record the VoiceXML session.
- mod: Correction in Verbio/builtin grammar support.
Thank you for your continuous support!
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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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
- vxml cache | Cache actions *New
- vxml debug | Enable VoiceXML application debugging *New
- vxml no debug Disable | VoiceXML application debugging *New
- vxml originate | Originate a call to the VoiceXML application *New
- vxml reload | Reload VoiceXML interpreter configuration
- vxml show accounts | Show the accounts configured
- vxml show account | Show an account configured
- vxml show applications | Show and check the dependencies applications
- vxml show cache | Show files in the cache *New
- vxml show configuration | Show the configuration of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show dates | Show dates of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show license | Show license of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show session | Show session of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show sessions | Show sessions of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show statistics | Show statitics of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show top | Show top of VoiceXML interpreter
- vxml show version | Show version of VoiceXML interpreter
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We very are pleased to present the 6.1 release ref. 2011-05-25 of our VXI* VoiceXML Browser for Asterisk. There’s improvements and new specific features that will provide you the best IVR / IVVR experience for your voice and video telephony projects. VXI* 6.1 is suitable for production platforms running with all lastest Asterisk 1.4, 1.6 and now 1.8 kernels! (all Asterisk’s packages are available for download too).
Many Linux OS Distributions versions available based on:
You can download these new binary packages from this website for registered users.
Powered by I6NET Software
New features added and modifications:
- add: Support builtin grammar with uniMRCP (Loquendo).
- mod: Support of audio calls with VAD for the speech/ASR (Loquendo issue).
- add: Added XML/Text parser with the CURL object.
- mod: Correction to not send 100-Continue when body is empty.
- mod: Default optimize mode set to disabled.
- add: Added mixmonitor parameter to enable the call recording (randomize possible).
- mod: Corrections in the speechrecord parameter (randomize records).
- mod: Corrections in the ASR result response.
Thank you for your continuous support!
