Posts Tagged ‘asr’

WebPulp.TV Interviews Tropo

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Jose de Castro, our Chief Architect, was recently interviewed by Josh Owens from WebPulp.TV on the interworkings of Tropo’s Webscale cloud communications platform.

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Modernize Your App with Speech Recognition

Thursday, October 6th, 2011


This commercial was released in 1971 but touchtone (DTMF) was originally invented in 1941. That was 70 years ago! If your voice application is still using touchtone for user input, don’t you think it’s time to enter the 21st century?

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Jailbreaking OpenVBX

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Remember when the iPhone was only available on AT&T?   That was true until October 11, 2009 when a young coder named geohot (and friends) released the first iPhone/iPod jailbreak.  Suddenly iPhones weren’t tied to to just AT&T…now you could give AT&T the boot and choose Verizon or T-Mobile as your service provider.  Score!

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ASR-as-a-Service

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) as-a-Service can be powered via Tropo and SIP using this simple open source code provided below.  This service is perfect for adding speech recognition to your existing Asterisk, FreeSwitch, YATE, or enterprise app from the stone ages.

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Tropo-Powered Hamradio Callsign Lookup App

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Ham radio or amateur radio communications has been around since the early 1900s.  Ham radio technology has kept pace with traditional communications and may even be the only technology that allows people to communicate in natural disasters.  Ham radio operators can communicate over very far distances using HF (high frequencies) as well as through satellites via AMSAT and even using VoIP over the Internet using EchoLink, IRLP, or D-STAR!

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Talking to the Cloud, and the Cloud Talking Back

Friday, August 28th, 2009

One of the great things about Tropo is that it has a speech recognition and text to speech engine built right in. This allows a user to speak commands to your voice application and respond to them with dynamically generated content. We make every effort to make these features robust and yet simple to use for developers.

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