Voiceglue 0.8 Released
Aug 13th, 2008 by admin
Voiceglue 0.8 is essentially the same as 0.7 with some installation scripts and documentation fixed.
It’s on the download page, as usual.
Aug 13th, 2008 by admin
Voiceglue 0.8 is essentially the same as 0.7 with some installation scripts and documentation fixed.
It’s on the download page, as usual.
Aug 13th, 2008 by admin
After much delay, I’ve gotten a new release of VoiceGlue out. See the download page to get it.
The two significant changes in this version are:
1. Support for installs on Debian-based distros (e.g. Ubuntu)
2. Support for perl versions > 5.8 (e.g. Fedora 9)
I haven’t had time to do much testing, especially on Fedora, so please report any issues.
Feb 29th, 2008 by admin
Over at Ampersand, we had reason to write a simple VXML script that exercises some of the main areas of VXML. We thought we’d release it under GPL as part of the voiceglue project, in case anyone else in the community finds it of use. The exerciser is a series of VXML scripts that exercise various functions relating to input, output, flow, dialogs, events, etc. More details here.
The script is available at http://www.voiceglue.org/vxml_tests/ex.vxml ; and feel free to point a voice browser at it and run it directly off our site if you like.
Technorati Tags: VXML test program, VXML test, VXML exerciser, Voiceglue Test
Feb 29th, 2008 by admin
It’s been awhile since we posted a status update on the project, so here goes:
Our goal is to get speech recognition working at which point we will call it a 1.0 version. We will then take our feature request list, poll our user community to get your input, and schedule dot releases.
One last note, I (Steve) will be at Spring VON in San Jose if any voiceglue users would like to get together. Drop me a note.
Technorati Tags: voiceglue status, voiceglue speech recognition, open source speech recognition, asterisk vxml speech recognition
Nov 4th, 2007 by admin
DIgium Asterisk World turned out to be a good conference. Attendance was higher than I had anticpated, perhaps 150 people at the keynote and more than that aggregated amongst the different tracks and on the floor. Lot’s of interested parties, including enterprise buyers, vars, and a good showing by the business-oriented parts of the community, which was the goal of the event.
Our panel was well attended, and we had a good discussion about what “sophisticated services” mean from both a carrier and an application perspective. Moderator Bryan Johns did a good job and made some thoughtful comments. Co-panelist Chris Gatch talked about the benefits of using a next gen carrier and how asterisk as a pbx can take full advantage of such services.
Our slides are attached here, short and sweet. We overviewed different areas of sophisticated services possible on asterisk, such as conferencing, outbound campaigns, ACD/CTI, etc., then we focused on IVR and gave a short 4-slide overview of VXML, openVXI, and Voiceglue (including the voiceglue architecture diagram below — you can click thru to flickr for a bigger version). Several people asked some insightful questions, and in the post-panel discussions we had some requests for future project directions such as call control.
On last item of note is that we had a good talk with Craig Campbell of Cepstral, who donated a SDK so that we can integrate his TTS into Asterisk — which we plan to do as soon as we finish with our ASR integration. We do have a bit a of a roadmap that we’ve been putting together, and we’ll get a post out on that in the near future.
Technorati Tags: Asterisk World, Expanding to Sophisticated Services, VON2007, Voiceglue
Nov 1st, 2007 by admin
Version 0.6 of Voiceglue is now available on the download page.
It fixes a bug with the
No simple update for this, best to uninstall the old and install the new.
Oct 19th, 2007 by admin
We’ve been asked to talk about using Asterisk to build scalable open-source IVRs at Pulver’s Fall VON and Digium Asterisk World. The conference is held here in Boston (our stomping grounds), and our panel is at 2pm on Tuesday, Oct 30.
I (Steve) will be on the panel along with a next gen service provider, and a very experienced Asterisk integrator. The title of the panel is Expanding to Sophisticated Services.
This is the inaugural year of the Asterisk World conference; which is the business-oriented counterpart to Astricon.
You can sign up for the full asterisk world conference, which gets you into all the keynotes and panels, or you can come to the expo only. As of today, you can still get a free expo pass if you go to the main VON site.
If you’re interested in Voiceglue, come talk to us at VON. Doug and I will be there all day Tuesday, and I’ll be back for Wednesday and part of Thursday as well.
Technorati Tags: Asterisk World, Asterisk World Panel, Open source IVR, Voiceglue, Expanding to Sophisticated Services, VON
Sep 17th, 2007 by admin
Version 0.5 of Voiceglue is now available on the download page.
This version fixes a bug with validation of identifiers in VXML files.
If you’re getting errors like these:
Datatype error: Type:InvalidDatatypeValueException, Message:Value 'caller' does not match regular expression facet '([a-zA-Z]|[a-zA-Z$][a-zA-Z0-9_$]*[a-zA-Z0-9_])'
Failed to parse the URI's content. Make sure that this document consists of valid VXML.
then you should definitely upgrade.
This version turns off Xerces XML validation, which reports valid
VXML documents (confirmed valid by XSV) as errors.
Sep 12th, 2007 by admin
Voiceglue author Doug Campbell is planning to be at this year’s Astricon for the Thursday sessions and the first half of Friday. If you’d like to get in touch or meet with Doug, look for the tall geek muttering about VxML (just kidding, Doug generally doesn’t mutter), or drop us a line, contact details here.
Sep 5th, 2007 by admin
Version 0.4 of Voiceglue is now available on the download page.
This version fixes a bug with cached grammars.
Thanks to those that are submitting bug reports, so they can get fixed!