VoiceObjects Technical Blog

As you may know, VoiceObjects 7.4 has been released and is available for download on this developer portal.
Now, I wanted to see what’s in VoiceObjects 7.4 for developers. In particular, I was interested in exploring some of the new expression functions – there is large number of new functions in the realm of date and [...]

If you are a developer interested in evaluating, playing around with, or just getting to know VoiceObjects, a good way to start is looking into the tutorials and demos that come with it.
In particular, if you’re interested in the multi-phone-channel capabilities of VoiceObjects, or if you just want to explore some of the more advanced [...]

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We want to start our tour at their home www.voxeo.com.  Whenever you get lost during our journey I will pick you up there.
Arrived at voxeo.com? Perfect. To [...]

Here are some additional readings on the acquisition:

The official press release announcing the acquisition

Article in Information Week
Article in SpeechTech Mag

Here are some of Voxeo’s viewpoints:

What the VoiceObjects acquisition by Voxeo means for voice application developers… on the Voxeo Developer’s Corner blog
Voxeo’s VoiceObjects acquisition further promotes the open standard of VoiceXML on the Voxeo [...]

As you are probably aware by now, VoiceObjects got acquired by Voxeo.
During the past years, we have been able to create a software platform for self-service application development and analytics that is unique in the market. Many corporations world wide use VoiceObjects technology to successfully operate their phone self-services.
As Voxeo, we are now able to [...]

When creating speech applications, being able to manage dynamic grammars is often a must. A few examples include

Choosing from a user-specific list of accounts, reservations, transaction codes, …
Asking the caller to identify with his password, date of birth, or security question;
In a banking bill payment application, the “payee list” grammar can be dynamically generated based [...]

Last week VoiceDays 2008 – the leading German speech technology event – took place. From the VoiceObjects perspective we are looking back to a really successful event. Numerous discussions indicate the growing demand for application development environments that provide independence of underlying IVR technology, that can handle multiple phone channels and modalities, and that [...]

Just a quick note on a successful phone service deployed on VoiceObjects technology:
D+S europe AG has won the „Best Value-Added Service“ category of the VoiceAward 2008. The VoiceAward recognizes the wake-up service (Weckdienst) as best speech-enabled public phone service.
Award winners were selected by a panel of expert judges attending the recent VoiceDays conference [...]

Dear VoiceObjects developers,
We recently updated the Developer Portal with some new product updates. Check out the update below:

Now available: VoiceObjects Media Mixer Developer Edition
VoiceObjects Media Mixer is now available as free Developer Edition. VoiceObjects Media Mixer enables the delivery of innovative video solutions via the creation and dynamic generation of [...]

Ill-designed voice dialogs can get unnecessarily slow and tedious when they try to over-compensate for speech recognition challenges, may they occur or not. This can drive me nuts: They verify each and every input individually instead of first collecting all input and then confirming all of it at once. With 4 items to collect, for [...]