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.