Hunstville, Ala.-based
Digium Inc., the company that created and develops
Asterisk, the popular open source telephony platform, has announced a new partnership that will allow for the creation of Asterisk (
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To support a growing base of Asterisk users who don't use English, the company partnered with
Loquendo, a Telecom Italia (
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Officials say this latest integration brings Loquendo’s (
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In addition, Asterisk users can now more easily create telephony deployments with speech applications including auto-attendants, CRM apps, UC and self-service applications.
According to Daniele Sereno, Loquendo vice president for product engineering, Loquendo can now enrich the Asterisk experience by providing its full portfolio of languages and voices and its standards-compliant voice platform to the developer community so they can place their focus on building and creating apps.
“The Asterisk community has always been strong worldwide and interest in use of the platform to create standards-based voice applications is particularly healthy right now. We’re enthusiastic about Loquendo’s work across numerous languages and industries and believe that their standards-orientation makes them a natural partner for Digium (
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Earlier this week, Loquendo announced the release of
version 7.7 of its TTS solution, which boasts improved audio quality and a smaller footprint.
Digium will also host
Asterisk training courses at
TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2009 this year scheduled to take place September 1-3, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The courses will include an introduction to Asterisk Open Source PBX (
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Stefania Viscusi is an assignment editor for TMCnet, covering VoIP, CRM, call center and wireless technologies. To read more of Stefania’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
