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Asterisk TTS: Introducing Today in History

Asterisk TTS: Introducing Today in History

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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We’re pleased to introduce a new text-to-speech application for Asterisk. Today in History retrieves today’s historical events and birthdays and plays them back using Flite of Cepstral from any Asterisk phone. Just pick up any phone and dial T-O-D-A-Y.

VoIP Over VPN: Securely Interconnecting Asterisk Servers

VoIP Over VPN: Securely Interconnecting Asterisk Servers

Monday, June 1, 2009

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Today’s tutorial walks you through interconnecting Asterisk servers for secure communications using Hamachi virtual private networks and the Proxmox Virtual Environment. The setup process takes less than 15 minutes per server.

Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part IV

Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part IV

Monday, May 25, 2009

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Install 20 Asterisk apps and build a turnkey Asterisk system in under 5 minutes with the new Orgasmatron Installer for PBX in a Flash. Fax, ODBC, VPN, ENUM, CallerID Superfecta, weather, sports, and news TTS apps, and more…

Whole House iPod + $5/mo. Gets You Every Song on the Planet

Whole House iPod + $5/mo. Gets You Every Song on the Planet

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Napster just announced an incredible $5 a month bundle that you won’t want to pass up. Couple it with the Sonos music system and you’ve got a near perfect sound system that’ll meet your every need.

Asterisk CallerID Perfected: CallerID Superfecta 2.0

Asterisk CallerID Perfected: CallerID Superfecta 2.0

Monday, May 11, 2009

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Nerd Vittles today introduces the ultimate CallerID management system for FreePBX-based Asterisk systems. CallerID Superfecta 2.0 is a new FreePBX module that provides CallerID name lookups from Google, AnyWho, WhitePages, YellowPages, Addresses, WhoCalled, as well as AsteriDex, the Asterisk Phonebook, and SugarCRM. The entire setup and configuration process takes less than 5 minutes!

Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part III

Asterisk on Steroids: The Orgasmatron Installer, Part III

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, today 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, 20-user conferences for under $10 a month, ODBC connectivity, and much, much more.

Asterize Your Data: Taming ODBC with Asterisk

Asterize Your Data: Taming ODBC with Asterisk

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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Ever wanted to use your Asterisk phones to quickly retrieve data from a company database? Today’s article will walk you through getting ODBC connectivity working on your Asterisk system. And it provides all of the building blocks you’ll need to connect to almost any database in the world.

Googlified Messaging Returns: The Gizmo-Asterisk Marriage

Googlified Messaging Returns: The Gizmo-Asterisk Marriage

Friday, April 24, 2009

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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.