Building Telephony Apps (Interview)

Nov 30, 2010 · 45 min · 22.0 MB

0:00-45:10

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Wynn caught up with Chris Matthieu of Voxeo Labs to talk about Phono, Tropo, Adhearsion, and building telephony apps with open source tools.

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Chris Matthieu founder of Teleku, now with Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, Teleku, and Phono.
Tropo’s GitHub projects
Adhearsion uses Ruby to create voice-enabled applications on top of Asterisk
Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server
Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you make phone calls right from your browser.
Jay Phillips orginally created Adhearsion
Jason Goecke VP of Innovation at Voxeo
AGI protocol is at the core of Asterisk
Wynn and Chris go way back with TAPI, MAPI, and SAPI
Google Voice transcriptions gone bad
The SIP protocol allows multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol
The Jingle protocol extends XMPP and powers Google Talk
Wynn asks how Tropo stacks up against Twilio
Tropo does TTS in nine languages
Tropo’s Scripting Environment supports Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, and Javascript
Tropo’s REST API offers a more traditional API approach
Facebook Telephone lets you call your Facebook friends via Phono.
Twelephone, if Twitter is more your bag
Michael Bleigh from Intridea makes Twitter apps easier for Rubyists
Facebook’s OpenGraph API makes building Facebook apps much easier than previous APIs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!