Wed, 30 August 2006  This weeks guest is Kevin Lenzo. Kevin is the CEO of Cepstral LLC based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania . Greg talks to Kevin about Cepstral, the Festival Speech Technology and the confluence of VoIP and Speech Technology. Kevin is ABD in the Ph.D. program in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and is taking leave from his faculty position in the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) at Carnegie Mellon in order to spend his full energy on Cepstral. He holds a Master of Science in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSc in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in CIS and Honors in the Liberal Arts. We discuss how VoIP and and Text to Speech Engines intersect on Convergence Servers and look to the future of speech enabled telephony applications. powered by ODEO Comments[3] |
Thu, 10 August 2006 
This weeks episode focuses on VoIP Security with a report from the BlackHat Conference and then a speech given by PhoneGnome's CEO David Beckemeyer. He talks about VoIP 2.0. Dan York and Johnathan Zar from BlueboxPodcast interview Dave Endler and Mark Collier about their Black Hat talk and the VoIP security tools they released last week. This is from last weeks Black Hat Conference held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Nevada. The current voice over IP landscape resembles the early days of the internet, according to PhoneGnome's David Beckemeyer. Consumers are spoiled for choice, but the choices leave a lot to be desired, as most service provider are walled gardens locking users in to their services while limiting options and innovation. Beckemeyer puts forth a call to arms for voice over IP providers and consumers alike to imagine what VoIP 2.0 could be like. This presentation is courtesy of IT Converstations and the OReily Emerging Telephony Conference. This weeks music is called Comfort from the Auckland New Zealand Band dDub. This music is courtesy of Muzic.co.nz. This podcast is released under the Creative Commons non-commerical-sharealike 2.5 license. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Technorati Profile Comments[2] |
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