Building Telephony Apps (Changelog Interviews #41)

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!