We’re back! Once again you can make free calls in the U.S. and create a free voicemail transcription service with any Asterisk PBX. Today’s tutorial will show you how. And we’ve set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google’s automated transcription results.
In our last column, we introduced you to the new Orgasmatron Installer for PBX in a Flash. After a one-week break to prepare for our visit to the Atlanta Asterisk® Users Group 3d Annual InstallFest, we’re back in the saddle today to flesh out the new baby. For those that are new to all of this, let’s briefly review what the Orgasmatron Installer has added to your Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine. Faxing and email now work out of the box.… Read More ›
With today’s free Orgasmatron Installer, you can turn a garden-variety Asterisk PBX into a turnkey VoIP PBX with every bell and whistle on the planet… in less than 5 minutes: free text-to-speech apps for news, weather, tides, and messaging plus inbound and outbound faxing, regular and recurring reminders, wakeup calls, phone blasting, callerid lookups, and much, much more.
A quick recap of where things stand in the Google Voice arena as Google decides whether to emulate Skype or AOL in its quest for a share of the VoIP telephony pie…
Today’s tutorial walks you through harnessing the power of Google Voice: free calling within the U.S. and free voicemail transcription for deployment with any Asterisk PBX. We’ve also set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google’s automated transcription results.
Some Asterisk Gold that we mined by visiting the forums: a Skype Gateway for Asterisk, CallerID Lookups from 7 providers, faxing.everything with Asterisk, A2Billing tutorial for turnkey calling card systems, Asterisk Stickies, streaming Internet radio, and more…
You’re cordially invited to take the latest release of our Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine for a spin today with CentOS 5.2 (32-bit or 64-bit versions), Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6, FreePBX 2.5, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SendMail, Perl, Text-to-Speech, Faxing, Automated Backups, and more. Free downloads for Linux and VMware are now available.
What do calls to and from a couple 100 million of your closest Skype friends around the world have in common with Asterisk? Well, now they’re free calls to and from your nearest Asterisk extension! Today we’ll show you how to build your own dedicated Skype gateway to Asterisk in under 15 minutes using freely available, open source tools.