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Archive for October, 2009
Brian Reynolds on the iBook Voice System
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP on October 30th, 2009
Tim Panton’s demo on Wave showed the iBook Voice System. (Yes we’re all sick of hearing about wave but the demo was interesting and may be the wave of the future). And the wave for this session is here.
Brian Reynolds visits to explain his part in the demo.
Audio : Download file (TS-281992.mp3)
Note: this was a record, 7 hours conference with discussions on many topics, including phones, virtual machines, etc. Will be posting other material soon.
Sound bytes, short sessions in stereo:
Audio : Download file (LogJam.mp3)
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More on Astricon and the Great Wave Experiment
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP on October 23rd, 2009
like the title says…
Trying to link things together with Google Wave.
Astricon: a few critical comments, a few funny stories…
Audio : Download file (TS-281991.mp3)
Tim Panton’s ScreenCast of his Astricon 2009 presentation. This used technologies from: phonefromhere.com, wave.google.com, voice.ibook.com, digium.com and skype.com.
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Randal Schwartz visits Astricon
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in video on October 19th, 2009
I called him an “honorary member” of VUC, but he’s actually a regular and he did get his T-shirt at Astricon. We stopped in front of the cheapest happy hour place just long enough to record this for posterity.
We Did It! Astricon 2009 is Over
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in video on October 17th, 2009
Besides the few people I had time to grab, you’ll see stills of Allison Smith, Randal L. Schwartz and VUC regular Barry Kline. Allison is an amazing person when you consider how many people want to meet and talk to her (to hear that voice you’ve heard recordings of for years). She deals with it well, here’s someone who makes you feel special. Randal has always been one of my heroes and one of these days we will have to do some live video together just for grins. You’ll also get a quick glimpse of the indefatigable John Todd, aka, “tie dye man” and another VoIP hero, Olle Johanssen. Sorry Zoa, I misspelled Zoiper and can’t re-edit just now.
Astricon Wrap Up
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP on October 16th, 2009
Heroic efforts were required to produce this live call and edit it, and it will take patience and strong will to listen to it because of the noise and levels. We post it here because a lot of interesting things were said by participants (in random order) Tim Panton, Darrick Hartmann, Barry Kline, Philippe Lindheimer, Fred Posner, Zoa, David Duffet and whoever else wandered in.
Audio : Download file (TS-281043.mp3)
All in all, Digium did a great job in organizing the event with compelling content, fun, good food, and a space where people with our shared interests can gather and basically bother Allison Smith for three whole days.
Podcast: Download
Astricon Meetup
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in The Rest on October 15th, 2009
We’re having a great time at Astricon, you guys should have come!
I had the pleasure of meeting Gui Vieiro the “lucky” winner of the AA50 at AstriCon. Gui recently introduced Asterisk into the IT environment. “We were a very traditional telecom team when I joined [his company] 2.5 years ago. Asterisk has enabled us to do things we could not previously do, and the AA50 you gave me will help me [...] continue to find ways to create innovative telecom solutions. Welcome Gui and enjoy the AA50!
I keep forgetting to mention it, we have a VUC mailing list, look at this page to sign up or just go to the Google Group.
Now, excuse me but it’s party time!
Vestec’s Kashif Kahn at Astricon
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP on October 13th, 2009
You meet a lot of great people at Astricon, and you learn a lot of interesting new things. One thing that may be of interest to you is the announcement Kashif Kahn, Vestec VP of Biz Dev, made in his presentation on speech recognition here: You can get a full license for one port of their speech recognition for $25. Kashif says specifically that they came up with this offer as a way of reacting to the feedback from our session with Digium/Vestec a few weeks ago. Good news for everyone, you can now afford to evalute the product with an unlimited license, including the API, for the price of a week’s worth of coffees at $YourExpensiveCoffeeChain.
Audio : Download file (TS-280550.mp3)
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Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in Future Topics on October 10th, 2009
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Freepbx 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions with Alex Robar
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in Books on October 9th, 2009
Alex Robar has worked in the IT industry for seven years. He is currently the Technical Services Manager for a Canadian Managed Services Provider. He has worked with open source telephony solutions for the past four years, and has collaborated on the development and growth of an international Asterisk-based VoIP peering network.
Audio : Download file (TS-264001.mp3)
Digium AA50 VoIP Appliance to grab at Astricon Phoenix next week!
Podcast: Download
Affordable Speech Recognition
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP on October 2nd, 2009
Vestec Speech Engine for Asterisk®
Digium has just rolled out a new Asterisk speech recognition tool-kit from a partner company called Vestec. At $99/channel, speech recognition is down to a price point where virtually any application can be speech-enabled.
Also, Fax for Asterisk, Skype for Asterisk, Astricon, mobile phones and more on part two.
Part 1:
Audio : Download file (TS-264000.mp3)
Part 2:
Audio : Download file (TS-275278.mp3)
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