Ampersand releases Voiceglue 0.9

January 30, 2009

Ampersand has released a significant upgrade to Voiceglue, an open source integration of Asterisk with the openVXI VXML engine. The new release provides support for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the popular Ubuntu and Fedora Linux systems, as well as adding new features such as: support for Cepstral TTS, parameter passing from the Asterisk dialplan, DOM support, and better TTS file handling. Numerous bugs and issues were also corrected.

This is the first new version of Voiceglue since last summer, and reflects changes and improvements driven by the growing Voiceglue user community. Doug Campbell, Ampersand’s Chief Engineer and Voiceglue author says, “Over the last two decades, we at Ampersand have benefited greatly from the open source community, and it feels good to give something back”.

Steve Smith, Ampersand’ CEO states, “We’ve seen increasing interest in Voiceglue, the only completely free implementation of VXML available on the popular Asterisk open source telephony platform. In the past few months several organizations have approached us about funding specific needs with Voiceglue technology and retaining Ampersand’s support for their Voiceglue implementations, validating our decision to keep Voiceglue 100% free under the GPL license in accordance with the classic open source business model”

Details of the new release and further information about Voiceglue can be found at the project’s website voiceglue.org which is operated by Ampersand.

Ampersand unveils new web presence

March 18, 2008

Everyone needs a spring cleaning now and then. We left our old website up a tad too long, and it was behind the times. We hope you like the new ampersand.com.  We think it does a much better job of accurately describing our business. There are a few details we’re still working on to get it just right, and some of the supporting imagery will evolve and improve, but we think it’s ready for you, our website visitor.

We’ve added an RSS-feed-enabled section on Ampersand news and events. In fact you’re reading the first article in this News section. News is separate from Steve’s Tech Journal, a blog written by Ampersand’s President. Our intent is that the News section will talk about Ampersand activities, our participation in industry events, and provide news about the company. Steve’s Tech Journal will continue to be the personal industry commentary Steve has been writing for the last 3 years. If you want to keep tabs on us, consider subbing or bookmarking both!

Special thanks to the great design folks at Litchinut, especially Dennis, for our new site design, layout, and coding. You guys are great to work with! And, of course, kudos to the wordpress developers and community — we’re proud to be running another great open source product.