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Building Telephony Apps (Changelog Interviews #41)

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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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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • We’re excited to team up with GitHub Jobs! To have your job posting read on air, just check “Advertise this listing on The Changelog Podcast for an additional $100” when you post your job.
  • 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!

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