Building Telephony Apps (Interview)

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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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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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!