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Presented by Steven Morgan Hypnosis sites per request: http://www.mindmethods.com (that's mine) http://www.ngh.net (National Guild of Hypnotists) And a few of my stage show skits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzaT1MfcNEI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0BNuEAFGMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zArSSuu0PM
What is Tropo? This screencast explains how it works.
In this developer jam session, we will present the newly released Tropo Web API. Tropo makes it easy for you to quickly add voice, instant messaging (IM), and SMS to your applications, using the programming languages and tools you already know using a web services API and JSON. We will cover how the API works as well as provide examples of how to use this in your communications with robust speech recognition, text to speech, transcription, conferencing, instant messaging, and SMS to your appli...
http://blogs.voxeo.com - This session discusses tradeoffs in deploying communications applications behind the firewall, with a hosted partner or through elastic mechanisms such as Amazon?s EC2. Moderated by Thomas Howe, this session was part of the Cloud Communications Summit at ITEXPO East 2010 on January 20, 2010, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. Participants: Thomas Howe (Moderator), Light & ElectricDan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo Evan Cooke, CTO, Twi...
Exploring Apps In The Cloud - Today the industry is buzzing about cloud computing and pushing applications out into the network cloud. Google has brought out their AppEngine platform while Amazon offers their EC2 and S3 services and Microsoft and others prepare their own offerings. In this session, attendees will learn about what is involved with developing voice applications on cloud computing platforms. What options are out there? What do you need to look for in a platform? How can you get s...
At VON 2009 in Miami Beach, FL, Voxeo's Dan York joined Thomas Howe and Suresh Bhandarkar to discuss the topic of applications and "app stores". The abstract of the session was: The Apple App Store has proven the value of embracing third-party application developers to bring innovative, sticky and useful applications to subscribers. But how can service providers leverage the idea? To date device manufacturers like Research in Motion Ltd. and Palm Inc., or platform providers like Google Inc. an...
Beyond Boxes: The Future of the PBX - On September 21, 2009, at the VON 2009 conference in Miami Beach, FL, Voxeo's Dan York, Director of Conversations joined a panel discussion about the future of the PBX. Though the PBX has been the heart of enterprise telephony and arguably the heart of the business itself, hosted and cloud-based telephony are finally convincing customers to loosen their death grip on gear in the on-premises closet. This session will explain the advantages, such as ever-cur...
At O'Reilly's OSCON 2009 in San Jose, Voxeo's Dan York spoke about using WordPress MU (WPMU) to create a corporate blog portal. Dan discussed how he used WPMU to create blogs.voxeo.com and specifically the tools he used, the lessons he learned and suggestions he would offer to others. NOTE: The video is very dark and could not be fixed in post-production. It is admittedly more of an audio file with some slides visible. FYI, the slides are available for viewing directly at http://www.slideshare...
Securing Cloud Telephony Dan York, CISSP, Director of Conversations ? Voxeo As voice and self-service applications move increasingly into the cloud and to IP communications, what do you need to be concerned about with regard to the security of hosted solutions? If you grow to trust the cloud, how can you be sure it will be there for you? What protections can you put in place? What backup plans can you establish? What questions should you ask potential hosted/cloud vendors? In this session, sec...
Optimizing Speech Recognizer Rejection Thresholds Dr. Daniel C Burnett, Director of Speech Technologies ? Voxeo This session will explain ASR (automatic speech recognizer) confidence rejection thresholds: what they are, where they come from, and their criticality to your ASR-enabled IVR. We describe the steps necessary to optimize this important threshold value throughout your application, covering transcription, the importance of grammar coverage, and an explanation of terms such as the Equal...