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Fall Festivus: Asterisk Text-to-Speech Roundup with a Baker’s Dozen New Voices

Fall Festivus: Asterisk Text-to-Speech Roundup with a Baker’s Dozen New Voices

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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It’s been a while since we looked at the text-to-speech (TTS) landscape with Asterisk®. So we thought we’d bring you up to date on where we stand with text-to-speech in the free department insofar as Asterisk 11 is concerned. The hands-down winner remains Lefteris Zafiris’ implementation of Google TTS. It rivals any commercial TTS software application and costs you nothing. The good news is, if you’re running Incredible PBX 11, you already have it. For other PBX in a Flash… Read More ›

R.I.P. Googlicious: Weather, Weather, Everywhere… Except From Google

R.I.P. Googlicious: Weather, Weather, Everywhere… Except From Google

Saturday, September 1, 2012

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For at least the last four years, Google has maintained a not-so-secret Weather API that let hobbyists and people like us build weather applications for the rest of the world to use. Google never provided a word of documentation nor even a comment about the Weather API other than obscure mentions by a few Google employees. Google, of course, is not stupid. They know everything there is to know about analytics, and it was no secret that the Weather API… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible Pi: $35 for Asterisk, FreePBX & Google Voice Utopia

Introducing Incredible Pi: $35 for Asterisk, FreePBX & Google Voice Utopia

Monday, August 20, 2012

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It’s Back-to-School Time in most of the United States, and the Nerd Vittles crew needed a good fall project to distract us from all of this year’s dreadful politicians. We feel like a kid in a candy store with our new $35 Raspberry Pi® Model B. Imagine squeezing a 700 mHz ARM processor with 256MB of RAM, 2 USB ports, a 10/100 Ethernet port,if an HDMI port, composite video, a separate audio jack, an SDHC card slot, and a micro… Read More ›

Asterisk TTS: Today in History 2.0 & Yesteryear’s Time of Day

Asterisk TTS: Today in History 2.0 & Yesteryear’s Time of Day

Monday, August 6, 2012

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If you’re a history buff and want a convenient way to find out everything that ever happened Today in History, then this week’s upgraded text to speech (TTS) application for Asterisk® should be just what you need. Pick up any phone connected to your Asterisk system and dial T-O-D-A-Y (86329 for the spelling-impaired). The script will retrieve today’s historical events of interest from HistoryOrb.com and play the results back to you over the phone using Google TTS. To speed up… Read More ›

Googlicious: News, Weather, Stocks & Dictionary for Asterisk

Googlicious: News, Weather, Stocks & Dictionary for Asterisk

Monday, May 28, 2012

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Today we have 3 all-new text-to-speech applications for you thanks to the terrific work of Google and Lefteris Zafiris. There’s worldwide weather reports, stock reports, and headline news. It’s a one-minute install on PBX in a Flash systems.

Siriously: It’s Wolfram Alpha for Asterisk

Siriously: It’s Wolfram Alpha for Asterisk

Monday, January 16, 2012

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Move over Siri! Today we’ll show you how to harness the power of a 10,000 CPU supercomputer to answer just about any question you can think up. And it’s all brought to you courtesy of Asterisk and your nearest telephone.

Home Run: Asterisk Baseball Scores & Schedules with Gtalk

Home Run: Asterisk Baseball Scores & Schedules with Gtalk

Monday, April 11, 2011

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Today we are pleased to introduce the all-new Baseball Scores & Schedules application for Asterisk 1.8 using Google Talk. 10 Major League Baseball teams are preconfigured, and you can add as many additional teams as desired. This app uses Google’s brand new Google Talk Guru with sports score and schedule retrieval times of under one second!

Worldwide Weather Forecasts with Asterisk and Google Talk

Worldwide Weather Forecasts with Asterisk and Google Talk

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Today we are pleased to introduce the all-new Worldwide Weather Forecasts application for Asterisk 1.8 using Google Talk. 10 cities are preconfigured, and you can add as many additional cities as desired. This app uses Google’s brand new Google Talk Guru with weather forecast retrieval times of under one second!

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