Microsoft Beta to Make ’em Talk Microsoft has released a public beta of their Speech Server and a new beta of their Speech Application SDK. Microsoft had previously teamed up primarily with Intel to propose a new standard called SALT that is somewhat competitive with VoiceXML. As of now, I contrast the two as: SALT… Read More »
While porting SoccerPhone from TellMe to BeVocal, I ran into a couple differences between the two as a development environment and a deployment environment. Porting Code from TellMe to BeVocal The porting process went pretty quickly. Fortunately, the Python CGI scripts didn’t have to change. Three cheers for standards and for application communication via XML… Read More »
I just published the 0.2 release of SoccerPhone to the SourceForge project site. The main two features of this release are: Support for the 2003 version of the MLS live scores page Support for BeVocal as well as TellMe as a VoiceXML gateway I had always wanted to port SoccerPhone to another VoiceXML Gateway, but… Read More »
The Technology section of Der Spiegel Online has a long article on audio blogging [German | Google Translation] titled “audio blogs: Voices from the Web”. PhoneBlogger makes an appearance in the Internet links sidebar as “Audioblog solutions (III)” and in the main text of the article.
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Bad news for my free, public SoccerPhone service, which ran as a TellMe Extension. I received the following email from TellMe today: VoiceXML Developer, Tellme has made many investments in VoiceXML over the past four years. One of these investments was in the Extensions program, with the goal of making VoiceXML a more utilized public… Read More »
Well, enough fooling around with development and alpha code. I now have a version of PhoneBlogger that is in good enough shape to demonstrate. Click on the “recorded message” link in my post before this one to hear it in action. PhoneBlogger is an automated voice application. After asking you for info about which pre-configured… Read More »