Of late, I have been receiving regular invites from a social networking site called www.siliconindia.com

All of the invites are from people I don't know. I have occasionally written back asking who they are and have never received a reply. I had never looked at this in detail as I always assumed that it was a minor typo which probably ended up ( Read more... )

Continuing on the process of discovery about the suitability of Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition for commercial use, I ran into the issue of integrating the Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition into the existing build process. The current build process for Xtend IVR used a collection of vbscripts that automated the entire build producing the final ( Read more... )

The Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions FAQ clarifies on point 7 to the question "Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?" with the reply that "Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built using Visual Studio Express EditionsIntrigued by the fact that there are no licensing restrictions, I wanted to find out exactly how ( Read more... )

Xtend IVR completely utilizes the full-duplex capability of supported voice cards to stream both incoming and outgoing audio in a call. What is not obvious is that these audio streams are manipulated internally by Xtend IVR to provide numerous services that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to implement. This blog post attempts to explain ( Read more... )

Text-To-Speech (TTS) support is one of those innocuous additions that look pretty simple on the surface. Provide a line of text, convert to a wave block and push into your play queue, what could be simpler ( Read more... )

One of the advantages of Xtend IVR is the fact that it is easily able to integrate with the .NET Framework. In fact the developer edition contains samples in C# that demonstrate how easy it is to achieve this ( Read more... )

The latest release of Xtend IVR now supports the following voice cards and api.

New:

• Dialogic HMP (SDK 6.0)
• Synway (SynCTI 4.7)
• Donjin (NADK 1.8)
• NMS (Natural Access 2005-1)

Existing:

• Dialogic (SDK 5.1.1)
• Dialogic (SDK 6.0)
• Diva Server (SDK 4.0)
• Ai-Logix (SDK 3.8)
• Telephony API 2.1 [Half-Duplex]
• Telephony API 2.1
• Multimedia Wave Driver
• ( Read more... )

NMS Natural Access is an OS independent api and framework for implementing voice applications. However this feature comes at a price - no UI. That's right.... absolutely no user interface ( Read more... )

I had written earlier about why IVR software do not support Skype. Now that we have a working Skype driver in Xtend IVR and a free one port Developer Edition available for download, let us take a look at what is possible using Skype and the toolkit.

For starters, all generic ivr samples that are present in the samples directory work with the Skype ( Read more... )

Of all the voice card vendors in the market, Donjin is unique. Not just because they seem to cover the entire analog and digital range of voice cards, but because they claim to be compatible with the Dialogic API ( Read more... )